Ayebale Deus

Poet

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

The idea that you have your whole tribe behind you, or that your whole tribe will rally to your support if you get problems, will prevent you from fighting as hard for yourself as you can.

Think of yourself as an individual member of species man rather than as a member of your tribe. And think of politicians as individual members of species man rather than as members of your tribe or the other tribe.

Have you ever personally benefited from the presence of your tribesmates in government? If you have never, what makes you think that their rises and falls have anything to do with you?

[空空道人02 @kongkongda5588]

非洲真的很缺水吗？其实“懒”才是他们穷的根本原因。有数据显示，非洲地下水储量是地表的100倍，为何他们不挖井，而是到处找水？
我之前跟着一支海外工程队在那边待了快八个月，亲眼见过太多让人匪夷所思的事，说出来真的好多人都不敢信。我们当时的营地建在一片开阔的草地上，刚过去的时候要解决用水问题，队里找了个测水的师傅随便找了个地方打井，打到不到十二米就出了清水，水质甜得很，除了供我们队四十多个人吃喝洗澡，还能引出一垄水浇我们开出来的小菜园，天天浇水都用不完。
而离我们营地不到两公里的地方，就有一个百十来口人的部落村子，我第一次跟着采购去村里的时候，就看见全村人都围着一个半米深的泥坑接水，那水浑得放半小时都澄清不了，水面上还飘着虫子和牲畜的粪便，小孩渴了蹲下来直接舀了就喝，大人也不管，不少小孩隔三差五就拉肚子，缺药耽误着能拖出大病，看着真的让人心疼。我当时就问翻译，咱们这边打井出了这么多水，他们咋不来打一口？翻译笑笑说，你往后看就知道了，不是水的事。
没过多久工程闲下来，队长说反正咱们设备人都有，不如免费帮他们打一口井，也算做件好事，结果第一步就卡壳了。村长带着一群人堵在我们选好的井址，说这块地是他们部落的公用土地，要打井就得给他们十袋面粉五桶食用油外加两箱汽水，不然别想动土。我们队里想着反正也不多，给就给了，就当换一口井给村里人用，这点东西对我们来说不算什么。
接下来要找几个当地人帮忙打下手搬东西，我们说好一天给一斤玉米面两瓶汽水，这个待遇在当地已经够一个三口之家吃饱喝足了，比他们自己瞎晃赚得多太多，结果来了五个人，干了不到四十分钟，全都撂挑子坐到树底下乘凉去了，说太阳太晒，会晒伤皮肤，祖宗规矩就是正午不能干活，要等太阳落山再干活。我们想着入乡随俗那就等，结果太阳落山之后，连个人影都没见着，第二天上午好不容易来了三个，还要求必须先给汽水玉米面，不给就不动手，我们给了之后，三个人晃悠着挖了不到半米，又坐下来歇着聊天了，一聊就是一上午，第三天干脆全都不来了，托人带话来说拿到的吃的够喝够吃好几天，先回家休息，吃完了再来。
最后没办法，我们工程队自己上手，不到十天就打出了一口出水稳定的井，还给他们在井口安了简易的提水架，放了两个大木桶，跟村长说以后大家随便来打水，只要别往井里扔垃圾就行。一开始村里人可开心了，天天排着队来打水，结果半个月不到，井口就堵了，我们过去一看，大大小小的树枝石头烂叶子堵了小半井，原来大家打完水垃圾随手就扔在井口边上，下雨一冲全进去了。我们免费帮他们清干净，反复跟村长和村民说不要扔垃圾，要保持井口干净，结果不到两个月，又堵了，之后村长干脆来找我们，说井坏了，你们再帮我们打一口新的吧，那语气说得理所当然，好像我们就该天天给他们收拾烂摊子。
我之前还碰到过一次，营地的围墙坏了一段，找了四个当地工人来修，说好一天干完给对应的工钱，结果四个工人八点开工，九点就歇着喝茶，十点吃早饭，十二点要睡午觉，睡到下午三点才起来，干了不到一小时又说要回家喂孩子，一天下来只码了不到五块砖，第二天还过来要全额工钱，说我们没给他们提供茶和饼，所以干得慢，钱不能少给，当时给我们队长气得直接把他们赶走了。
待得久了我才发现，这种事真的不是个例。有个二十多岁的小伙子天天来我们营地卖野果，我们看他挺活络，就说你干脆天天给我们营地送菜，我们一个月给你固定的工钱，比你卖野果稳定多了，结果他干了三天，第四天就不见了，过了一周晃悠过来，问他为啥不来，他说前三天赚的钱够花了，在家歇着花完了再来。还有国际援助组织免费给他们发蔬菜种子，教他们开荒种地，说种好了够全村吃大半年，结果一半种子被他们煮着吃了，剩下的随便往地里一撒，既不浇水也不除草，长不出来就接着等着发援助。
真的，很多人说非洲穷是因为气候不好历史遗留问题，可我们明明看到脚底下十几米就是清水，储量够整个村子用几十年，有人免费帮你打出来，就只要随手维护一下都做不到。他们不是没有力气，跑出去找野果跳篝火舞能折腾一整天，一说到干活赚饭吃，半小时就喊累；也不是没有资源，地下水摆在那，援助摆在那，就是不肯伸手去动。
我待了八个月见过好多口废弃的援助井，全都是打完没两年没人维护废了，当地人宁愿背着水桶走三四公里去接脏雨水，也不肯花半天时间清一清堵了的井口。你说这到底是延续了几千年的靠天吃饭的生活方式已经刻进骨子里改不了，还是真的就是“懒”才导致一直摆脱不了穷呢？你怎么看这件事？

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Bank of Kigali, Rwanda’s largest commercial bank, just became the first Rwandan lender to join China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). With the move, the bank can settle transactions directly in yuan, reducing reliance on the US dollar for trade with China. OVER 67 African banks spanning 38 countries have joined the CIPS network through varying levels of participation.
CIPS completes cross-border yuan settlements in 300 milliseconds to 10 seconds, vastly outperforming SWIFT's 1 to 5 business days. Furthermore, its direct real-time clearing bypasses intermediate dollar conversions, cutting transaction costs by 95% to 98%.

[NETBALL UGANDA @UgandaNetball]

We are the Champions of Africa
UGANDA 56 SOUTH AFRICA 53

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

introducing our Sympathy For Man City pizza

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

BREAKING NEWS

RWENZORI MARATHON 2026

2026 PRIZE MONEY

WORLD ATHLETICS FEDERATION

The world athletics federation has cleared us to pay all the winners of RWENZORI MARATHON 2026.

Standards have changed completely.

Good news is that they all were clean, which means Uganda has massive natural talent in athletics.

The top 6 guys best ABEL CHELANGAT time of 2hrs 14minutes 59 seconds in 2024 which opened big doors for him in the same year.

RWENZORI MARATHON elevation for full marathon is around 410m which is tough for any runners, I don’t think any runner can do a sub 2.

Another ABEL did 1hr 1m in half marathon with an elevation of about 280m, means he can do a sub 1 in many marathons around the world with lower elevation.

The prize money and the clearance letter are both attached below and if your relative won alert them.

MONEY HAS COME!

[Wilson Akiiki Kaija @wakaija]

These deaths!

1. Wee hours, 16 May 1997, Bunga, a Kampala suburb. Rally driver Gerald Kiddu is gunned down at the house of a female friend, Harriet Kansiimire.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

A hospital in rural Uganda runs surgery off-grid, and a surgeon in New York can watch the operation live.

The Mount Sinai Kyabirwa Surgical Facility sits in Jinja, Uganda, built with local labor using red clay dug from nearby sites and fired into brick on location. Those bricks form perforated screen walls that ventilate the entire building naturally, no mechanical cooling anywhere except the sealed operating rooms.

The roof is a canopy of solar panels, shaped after banana leaves, the same plant growing wild around the site. The panels shade the building and power it. A battery system stores enough energy to keep the facility running for two full days if the grid fails, which in that region, it often does.

Twenty miles of underground fiber optic cable connect this rural facility to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Surgeons there consult live, video calling directly into operations happening on the ground in Uganda. Water comes from a well and gravity tanks, filtered and sterilized onsite. Roof runoff flushes the toilets and waters a garden that feeds patients and staff. Waste is treated onsite too, nothing trucked out, nothing dependent on infrastructure that doesn't reliably exist there.

This is not a hospital that survives despite being off-grid. It was designed to run better because of it.

Kyabirwa, Jinja, Uganda. Architect: Kliment Halsband Architects, New York. Owner: Mount Sinai Health System. Photography: Will Boase, Bob Ditty.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳A science teacher in China and their students built a water rocket together. The moment it launched, the kids lit up with joy.

[The Observer @observerug]

Understanding Tooro’s throne and its defiant women

To an outsider, it may read as a modern power struggle: clan elders against a widow, tradition against a will, ambition against grief. But to anyone who has followed Tooro’s history, the shape of this fight is unmistakably familiar - going as far back as 1800.

Women are not bystanders in Tooro’s founding; they were part of its architects.

The Batebe (Princess Royal) is Tooro’s supreme female matriarch, second, or arguably equal,  only to the Queen Mother, serving as the king’s co-ruler and guardian of cultural identity. In Tooro there is a saying, “Omukama alema na Munyaanya” meaning, the king reigns with his sister, a statement that elevates the power of Batebe.

https://t.co/OznAuuJtGJ #Tooro #culture

[UGANDA RAILWAYS CORPORATION @RailwaysUganda]

Greetings, Comrades. We introduce new passenger train trips, effective, 31 August 2026.

What is new:

1. Lunchtime trip to Mukono - 1:30 PM
2. Second trip to Mukono at 5:30 PM
3. New coach introduced. No standing options.

#RestinPeaceHHOyoNyimbaKabambaIguruRukidiIV

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

Oyo Nyimba in his royal attire (front row, fifth from right), at the Aga Khan Primary School, 2004.

I don't know when this loss will sink in, much less whether the pain it's caused will ever heal.

Eternal light-reflected-in-light, help us understand!

[Sipho_Marima @MarimaSipho]

Uganda you owe me nothing, thank you! ♥️🇺🇬 South Africa I always carry you in my heart, for I am a product of your love and warmth 🇿🇦

[Buni, The Investorpreneur @BuniChristopher]

Some of their preserved body parts are available for viewing at the museum.

[Jm.autos🚗 @WilJay_1]

What burns more fuel?

[wes @weskambale]

the topic was about poor people, but the english used to defend the poor, eh

now we can't conclusively tell if we've been properly defended

it all sounds suspicious 🤦🏻‍♂️

[WIKIKENYA @Wiki_Kenya]

remember FBI summoned me to the US embassy to explain use of some microchips like LM1117, Ublox , STM 32, etc which I used to buy from Digikey. I became marked . I moved to China. SIM tech blocked my Modules. I closed down manufacturing in 2022. Swali bado moja...

[bee @beemuhamma]

My kid keeps trying to pull my charger. Today, I let him. Experience is the best teacher.

[Patience Kirabo @KuUganda]

@KCCAUG @KCCAED Froebel road should be renamed Sydney Gongodyo road, it's only just considering he was a patriotic sportsman whose life was senselessly taken on that same road. We need to remember our heroes.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it.

His name is Matt Ridley.

He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics.

Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book.

For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought.

For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded.

The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed.

It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it.

What changed was that humans started trading with strangers.

This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done.

Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone.

Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages.

An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned.

The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania.

Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running.

What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted.

The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries.

The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out.

By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years.

The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind.

Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself.

The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers.

If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear.

This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.

Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers.

The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had.

The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected.

The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other.

Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."