Amar Patel

Cricket fanatic & global affairs nerd. 🇬🇧☕

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@steady_profits Not surprising the Emirates is already ahead on this. China would be a massive market though.

[Jean Bernard Mukundente @JMukundente]

Rwandan Dairy Farmer Expands from One Cow to 17 as Insurance Supports Growth https://t.co/In7jsUj9Vd

[Overcome @OvercomeXX]

Fractal Urbanism in West and Central Africa

West and Central African societies used recursive geometry to plan their cities long before the West coined the term "fractals" in the 1970s. In the Niger Congo regions, this meant building settlements where the same pattern repeated at every scale, from the layout of a single home to the entire city grid.

This was an independent development in indigenous mathematics. Builders encoded their kinship systems and social hierarchies into their housing structures, allowing these cities to expand and scale while keeping the social and structural order intact.

[Vex @wmwengah]

Kisumu is rising.
Ingekuwa ni the tribalist gasagua Luo land hawangepata hii.
Phase III of the Makasembo Estate Project, bringing the vision of 1,870 modern housing units closer to reality.
Indeed urban renewal can transform communities, create jobs, and improve living standards

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@TundeObadina1 Agree. The market rate is the only real value. Intervening to 'fix' it just brings back the distortions the reforms were meant to end. Let the market work.

[Evang Uzochukwukwalu (Posh) @Uzochukwukwalu2]

So this one has topped Adamu's own at umudim.

[Tarun Vats @tarunvats33]

Samsung has released the One UI 8.5 June update for the Galaxy Z Fold7 in India and Europe with build version F966BXXUABZF1 yesterday.

What's new:
- Prioritize and Summarize Notifications
- Show File Summaries

REPOST

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

Michael Faraday.

A blacksmith's son who left school at 13 and went to work for a bookbinder. While he was binding other people's books, he was reading them. That was his university.

No money. No connections. No way in, by any normal measure.

And yet he worked out how to turn magnetism into electricity. Electromagnetic induction. Two cold words for something miraculous, because it's the reason your lights come on. Nearly every motor and generator on the planet runs on what this man figured out.

He could have cashed in. He was offered a knighthood and turned it down. Offered a grand burial at Westminster Abbey, and said no to that too. He wasn't in it for any of that. He just loved the work.

Born in Newington, made in London. One of the greatest minds this country has ever produced, and he came from nothing.

That's the stock we come from. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

How exciting to visit the world’s largest renewable plant - in Gujarat, India 🇮🇳.

2 years back I went to Khavda. At the time the enormous reneawble plant built in the salty desert was in its early days. There were about 30 windmills, now there are more than 400. There were a few solar panels, now there are solar panels to the horizon, like an ocean of solar energy. Today 8 gigawatt of solar and 2 gigawatt of wind energy is developed. By 2030 Khavda will host 30 gigawatt. The largest in the world!!!

To compare - that is as much energy as all Norwegian hydropower combined. It’s also 1,5 times the grid in Bangladesh or 5 times the functioning grid in Nigeria.

Even more extraordinary the worlds largest battery is now under construction. It’s already 3,3 gigawatt hours. It will be 14 at the end of this year, the aim is 50.

The battery is already the largest in the world outside China. In a few months time it will be the largest anywhere.

Incredibly the battery was established in ten months. Hats off to Adani Group for its extraordinary ability to execute projects on time and with dicipline. This is Adani-speed!

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@AligidirEritrea I'm sceptical of 65 billion too, but writing off the whole initiative? That's exactly the kind of dismissal Africa gets too often.

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@RoyalRao47 Jadeja for me. Proven match-winner when it counts. Axar needs to earn it on the pitch, not through succession planning.

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@AQ_Almenhali Very interesting. What do you think this means for supply chains and trade flows through the region going forward?

[سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei @saif_aldareei]

Major global investment firm Oak Hill Advisors just opened its first Middle East office in Dubai.
Why Dubai? Because the UAE has become the top destination for serious international capital — stability, vision, and execution.
The world is voting with its money.

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@MikeAgrow This is a familiar challenge across the Global South. Strong local markets but export compliance infrastructure isn't there. Testing, traceability, certification need real investment. Will this working group deliver practical solutions or just another report?

[Henok Teferra Shawl @_HenokTeferra]

#Africa’s path to development runs through industrialisation & value addition. There is no short cut! Industrialisation will require scale, which no African country can attain on its own, & can thus only become a reality through economic integration with free movement of people, goods & services across the continent.

#Aviation is the only continent-wide integration enabling infrastructure, hence the urgency of the full & immediate implementation of the #Single__African_Air_Transport_Market,with unrestricted access of #African markets for #African airlines. The continent doesn’t have the luxury of waiting any longer!

Thank you to #AFACAC & #Togo 🇹🇬for organising & hosting the #African__Aviation_Conference & Expo!

Highly appreciative of Ato Girma Wake’s deft & brilliance in moderating the panel discussions with Ministers of Angola 🇦🇴 , Morocco 🇲🇦 & Zimbabwe🇿🇼 as well as CEOs of #ASKY_Airlines & #Air_Astral, & Representatives of #AFRAA & #IATA.

#AFCAC
#AFRAA
#Boeing

[Amar Patel @amarcrktguy]

@TimKipchumba Very interesting. It's true that Africa often gets overlooked. Ruto makes a strong case for partnership over dependency. But whether the G7 actually delivers? We'll see.

[CESI SpA @cesispa]

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New challenges bring new capabilities. CESI grows with a more connected world because innovation means adapting and building together.
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#CESI70 #CESISpA #CESI

[Sputnik Africa @sputnik_africa]

🎬🇳🇬 Nollywood is reshaping African cultural identity, Nigerian film expert says

Nollywood is breaking cultural dependency on Western content, Lawrence Okpe told Sputnik Africa.

🗣 Nollywood has overtaken Hollywood's market share in West African cinemas—a major milestone, he noted.

👇 Watch the video to learn more about Nigeria's film industry achievements.

[ThatcherX @Thatcherx_ke]

Logistics in East Africa has never lacked demand.

It has lacked efficiency at scale.

We have now begun integrating autonomous drone delivery into one of the region’s largest express courier networks through Freight In Time.

This is important for one reason:

We are not building a parallel system.

We are embedding autonomy into existing infrastructure that already moves goods across eight countries.

That is how logistics shifts from experimental to operational.

[Faisal @FaisalAHAli]

This is unreal. @guardian approached the US for comment on a deadly airstrike in Jamaame last year. The US deputy press secretary asked if @guardian would look at “fraud committed by Somalis in the United States?”