Marlvin Tankoh

Husband, father, inspired and loves to inspire above all a hopeful Cameroonian & PanAfrican. #Economics #Finance #Policy #Accounting #Development #Climate

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

After FOUR long years, today we finally get to speak in court, right in front of @AGOfficeKenya
Here’s the truth: Kenyan farmers face jail for sharing seeds.
📉 While corporations rake in profits
📉 While food prices keep rising
It’s time for justice. #SaveOurSeeds

[Greenpeace Africa @Greenpeaceafric]

Climate change is here and now, and we can't afford to wait any longer.

We need to make polluters pay now, not tomorrow.

#COP29

[Greenpeace Africa @Greenpeaceafric]

The responsibility of big polluters to pay for the harm and destruction they have caused is escaping the spotlight.

The new finance goal is a turning point for holding the fossil fuel industry to account – not a get-out-of-jail-free card!

🧵1/2

[Greenpeace Africa @Greenpeaceafric]

So lemme get this straight:

Other countries come to Africa, exploit our resources, drill our forests, pollute our air, soil and water, but what do we get in return?

No electricity?
No food?
Cyclones?
Droughts?
Heavy Rains?
Landslides?

I feel scammed!

[Greenpeace Afrique @GreenpeaceAfrik]

Les leaders mondiaux seront à Nairobi dans quelques jours pour négocier un Traité mondial sur les #plastiques.

@PR_Paul_BIYA @Minepded1 Un traité mondial fort sur les #plastiques maintenant !

#BreakFreeFromPlastic #INC3

Signez la pétition 👉 https://t.co/fTmIUmanWf

[Mansuru Usmanu Mohmukwe @UsmanuMansuru]

@mddtcameroon @NEDemocracy @MinjeC @loyocameroon @NewSETA @YALDACameroon @stelyann @NancySaiboh92 @ManuAehshatou @achaleke1 @Atekiseta @BalkisouBuba @JohnMbafor @Vicky_Ambe @UNDP_PAPRINS @Minjec00237 @USEmbYaounde @UNFPACameroon Great initiative

[Greenpeace Africa @Greenpeaceafric]

😘 We cannot do what we do without your unwavering support and dedication.

For that, we want to THANK YOU, from the bottom of our green hearts! 💚

[Greenpeace Afrique @GreenpeaceAfrik]

Non, c'est vraiment laid. 😖

Nous ne voulons plus de cette pollution dans nos villes. ❌

Nous voulons un accord mondial sur les plastiques. ✅

Ajoutez votre voix 👉 https://t.co/xcnhKBdpoc

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

@africatechie @ASKY_airlines That’s an example of being receptive to criticism
Let’s try with Cameroonian companies that are not monopolies, that way if they banish you, switch to the competitor.

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

@ndangclovis I just liked because there are no other emoticons.

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

Unforgettable

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Thomas Sankara was a revolutionary African leader.

He drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.

He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists

As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth.

Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87):

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

@ndangclovis Wisdom has started coming in

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

Playmaker in gloves

[La Tanière²³⁷ 🦁 @lataniere237]

[𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐞̂𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 🎞️]

🦁 Quand un magicien monte sur scène, on prend ses popcorns🍿 et on apprécie 🤩

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞́ 𝐎𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐚 🪄

🎥: @HQCoaching_

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

@NotAfricatechie I Heard of this but thought it was not true.

[Marlvin Tankoh @ATankoh]

@JocelyneNgassam “Les bonnes choses” is written in MTN’s colour and “jamais” is written not just in Orange’s colours but in the same font used by Orange. You’ll think it’s a copy and paste from an Orange ad.
Big comms miss.

[Greenpeace Afrique @GreenpeaceAfrik]

Le rêve est permis mais sa réalisation est plus que possible. 😎

Imaginez comment sera notre continent si nous investissons dans les énergies renouvelables. 😍

[Greenpeace Afrique @GreenpeaceAfrik]

Dans un peu plus de deux semaines, les dirigeants mondiaux se réunissent dans le cadre de la CNI2 pour relancer les négociations en vue d'un traité mondial sur les plastiques. 🌏

Dites aux gouvernements africains de défendre un traité ambitieux. �� https://t.co/xcnhKBdpoc

[Greenpeace Africa @Greenpeaceafric]

Auctioning off oil blocks in the DRC peatlands is equivalent to auctioning off the lives of many endangered species, like chimpanzees and bonobos. ⁣
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Add your voice to stop the development of oil blocks in the DRC 👉 https://t.co/adSHPjmWdv

[Greenpeace Afrique @GreenpeaceAfrik]

Pour faire face à la crise de la pollution plastique, nous avons besoin d'un redémarrage du système pour créer une économie non alimentée par la culture du jetable poussée par de grandes marques comme @Unilever et @CocaCola.

Ajoutez votre voix 👉 https://t.co/GWtVHIg6uQ

[Greenpeace Afrique @GreenpeaceAfrik]

Actuellement, au Cameroun, la directrice exécutive de Greenpeace Afrique, @ouliechristy est en mission pour remonter les communautés africaines et elle a une vision puissante pour un avenir durable. 🙌

Soutenons-la dans sa vision! 💚

Passez-le.