brian waluchio

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.

[brian waluchio @bwaluchio]

@KelvRoman Well done

[Kelvin Roman @KelvRoman]

A grandmother in Senegal speaks Wolof. Her granddaughter married a Tanzanian and moved to Dar es Salaam. The granddaughter's children speak Swahili. The grandmother and her grandchildren have never been able to write to each other without someone in the middle translating.

Until today.

Daraja's Bridge is live. Any language to any language. Wolof to Swahili. Lingala to Yoruba. Hausa to Zulu. Creole to Amharic. 23 languages across Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Africa has the most countries, the most borders, and the most languages of any continent. Technology has treated that diversity as a problem.

We built it as a feature.

The bridge is open. Everyone crosses.

https://t.co/ntzi8nreC8 | API: https://t.co/HtIJtCuoOY

https://t.co/HtIJtCuoOY

#AIforAfrica

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

We paid a surprise visit to Abdullahi, a former Chase Bank manager who turned his love for books into @NuriaStore, a hub for African and self-published literature. He also runs a quiet initiative providing free sanitary pads via a dispenser, ensuring dignity and access for women.

[Monica Juma @Monica_Juma_]

I am deeply proud and honoured to start my tenure as Director-General/Executive Director of the UN Office at Vienna/@UNODC.

I look forward to leading the @UN’s work in addressing the challenges of drugs, organized crime, corruption and terrorism, for a safer and more just world.

[BNO News @BNONews]

BREAKING: Person who won more than $400,000 by betting on Maduro's removal has been identified as a U.S. soldier who participated in the operation.

The soldier has now been arrested, according to ABC News.

[Mbugua Ng'ang'a @MbuguaNganga]

I mourn the passing of Patrick Mukabi, the artist behind the iconic paintings in all Java House wall paintings. As a newbie journalist, my bery first assignment was to cover the story of how Mukabi memorialised the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. I have followed his work over the years and my best series from his collection was Market Women. Mukabi did a lot of work teaching youngsters to paint. But above all, he immortalised many aspects of Nairobi social life. He is a national treasure. The city of Nairobi owes him a great of gratitude. We need a City Arts Council to recognise such artists Wangui Maina and Dennis Onsarigo.

[Hugo Navarro @HugoNavarroPer2]

EBITDA (2026 edition): Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs, and Donald Announcements.

[Joseph Mwabili @JosephMwabili3]

Tanzanian Premier League, I wasn’t familiar with your game.
Now ranked among the top 60 leagues in the world.
Respect.
@FootballKe_90

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Across rural Kenya, communities are turning to an ingenious, electricity-free innovation: clay refrigerators shaped like traditional beehives. These structures crafted from porous terracotta use a natural cooling process called evaporative cooling.

When the clay walls are moistened, the evaporating water pulls heat away, dropping the internal temperature by up to 15°C. This simple method protects vegetables, fruits, and cooked food from the intense African heat, dramatically reducing spoilage where electricity is limited or unavailable.

What makes these “cooling hives” powerful is not just the technology, but the self-sufficiency they offer. Families can store produce for several extra days, farmers lose less harvest to rot, and communities preserve food safely without relying on costly machines or unstable power grids.

Designs like these prove that innovation doesn’t always need wires, circuits, or modern infrastructure sometimes the smartest solutions are built from the earth itself.

[Carol Radull @CarolRadull]

Heartbreak in Namibia as Tennis Kenya falls 2-1 to Morocco in the Billie Jean King Cup final.

Heads high, Team Kenya, you’ve made us proud!

#BillieJeanKingCup

@tennis_kenya

[Angella Okutoyi @Okutoyiangella2]

W50 DOUBLES TITLE AGAIN IN 🇩🇪
Nothing is granted ,everything is earned
It’s always fun @cheetahsheeda14
That’s it’s for the @itfworldtennistour ( 3 GOLDS AND 2 SILVERS ) for my summer !! #noweakness #WTTA
Now let’s switch focus to @rhineruhr2025 @FISU and let’s go represent 🇰🇪

[space & chill 🌔🪐☄️ @astro_bram]

feel like Kenyan scholars aren't celebrated enough, do you even know who this is..?
well , this 1965 portrait shows Dr. Florence Gladwell Ng’endo Mwangi, born in Kinoo, Kiambu County, while she was studying at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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[HSBC SVNS @SVNSSeries]

Patrick Odongo Okong’o proving why he’s one of the fastest players in #HSBCSVNS at the moment ⚡️🇰🇪

#HSBCSVNSHKG | @KenyaSevens

[HSBC SVNS @SVNSSeries]

KENYA GO BACK-TO-BACK IN CAPE TOWN 🏆🏆

@kenyalioness defeat South Africa 17-0 to claim their second win of the #7sChallengerSeries 🇰🇪

[Angella Okutoyi @Okutoyiangella2]

#noweakness

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

🇨🇺 Fidel Castro in Harlem (1995): "For 15 years, we were in Africa, fighting apartheid until the very end. There was a moment when the war was practically lost. We sent many of our best divisions. When we arrived there, a great crisis was unfolding. It was then that the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale took place.

Do you know how many troops Cuba sent to Angola at that moment? 55,000 volunteer soldiers...

At the United Nations, they don’t speak about that.

We hear countless speeches applauding the independence of African countries — as if it were the work and miracle of the United Nations!

They talk about the end of apartheid — as if it were the work and miracle of the United Nations!

*Crowd laughs*"

[African Union @_AfricanUnion]

𝐇.𝐄. 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐎𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚, 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚.

Meet the candidates vying for the position of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission.

Read his 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 for Africa’s transformation here.
𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 -https://t.co/xlZYaSYtKt
𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 - https://t.co/Y6aVCmvla1
𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜 - https://t.co/BBUnDg50c2
𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐞 -https://t.co/TRnmlP8PbK
𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 - https://t.co/dLYSBjUOSS
𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢 - https://t.co/8DHFYoNXFa

Follow the debate live on:
𝟏𝟑 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 | African Union Headquarters| 1900Hrs EAT.

- 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 will provide feed to all public broadcaster in the AU member states will be able to broadcast the debate live, in any of the 6 AU languages.

- The broadcast will be available on Satellite Television 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 / 𝐃𝐒𝐓𝐕 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝟕 and on the free to Air Channels of National Broadcasters who are also on the DSTV platform.

- The Mjadala Afrika Debate will be available in all the in all 6 languages on the 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬, website https://t.co/fy0X68H9UG and YouTube, X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram

- 𝐂𝐍𝐁𝐂 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 will also carry the whole broadcast live on their digital platforms https://t.co/yRVG5PgUE3. More content will be uploaded onto https://t.co/QB1TMLOjoE

🌐For more details about the upcoming Debate, visit- https://t.co/REGXlB2Sfa

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The moment Prof. Chinua Achebe explain to the world why Africa has no choice but to write its own stories.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986.

[Charlie Robertson @CharlieTTEcon]

Private equity investments in east Africa.

There is only one giant (for now) - Kenya, with more deals than the others put together, at $3.7bn, more than 7 times larger than either Uganda or Ethiopia

Tanzania punching well below it’s potential