Bwogi Ivan

I am Spirit, I live in a Body & I have a Soul

[National Coffee Research Institute Uganda (NaCORI) @NaCORIUganda]

KR (Kituza Robusta) coffee varieties developed @narouganda are high-yielding, resistant to CWD, Leaf Rust & Red Blister Disease. They are fast maturing. #EmwanyiTelimba. KR yield potential: about 20kgs of fresh cherries per tree & 4kgs of clean coffee per tree. #NexGenCoffee

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: SpaceX officially opens at $1,960,000,000,000.00 in market cap.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Juan Hernandez, a welder who says he took “just another contract job” at SpaceX for $28/hr in 2015, is now a millionaire as shares soar.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.

With SpaceX opening on the Nasdaq at $150 a share Friday, his stake in the company is worth more than $766 billion. Combined with his Tesla stake, which is worth $280 billion, Musk’s net worth from both companies as of Friday is roughly $1.05 trillion.

More here: https://t.co/CHmZVHZ0m3

[Word @umarfof]

accept, adapt, change.

[TotalEnergies Uganda @TotalEnergiesUG]

Designed to deliver 190,000 barrels of oil per day, the #TilengaProject is Uganda’s flagship oil & gas development, operated by @TotalEnergiesUG, in partnership with @UNOC_UG and CNOOC Uganda Limited.

At its heart is one of East Africa’s largest & most complex industrial projects, the Central Processing Facility (CPF). Located within an Industrial Area spanning ≈700+ Acres, about 80–85 football pitches, the CPF itself covers approximately 163 Acres and is located in Kasenyi village, Buliisa District.

Here, crude oil from +420 wells will be processed and prepared for export. +8000 are involved in delivering the project, 80% of these are Ugandan!
#CreatingSharedValue

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The man behind this building is a sculptor. He was given 12 days to come up with a design. He had never designed a building. He won the contest. Every part of it, down to each feather, represents one date: August 17, 1945, Indonesia's independence day.

His name is Nyoman Nuarta, a sculptor from Bali. His most famous work is the giant Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue. It's 121 meters tall and took 25 years to finish. For the palace, Nuarta's idea was simple: take a 9-story office building, then wrap a giant copper bird around the whole thing. The bird is a Garuda, a mythical creature from Hindu stories that also sits at the center of Indonesia's national symbol. Five major architect groups in Indonesia signed a letter protesting the design. The government went with it anyway.

The wings carry 17 feathers, the tail 8, the base 19, the neck 45. Together: August 17, 1945. The body was designed to be 76 meters tall, chosen because 2021 was the 76th year of Indonesia's independence. The whole structure is a sculpture you can work inside.

The outer skin is made of 4,650 copper bars, each one weighing 300 kilograms, about the weight of a piano. Together that's around 1,400 tonnes of copper, roughly the weight of 1,000 cars, just on the outside of the building. Right now it looks bronze. Over the coming decades the copper will react with air and slowly turn bluish-green. That's the same effect that turned the Statue of Liberty green. It's already starting on Nuarta's earlier Bali statue.

The palace sits 1,200 kilometers (about 750 miles) from Jakarta, on the island of Borneo. Indonesia is building Nusantara, an entirely new capital, because Jakarta is the fastest-sinking major city in the world. Some neighborhoods in the north drop up to 25 centimeters (about 10 inches) every single year. Large parts of the city could be underwater by 2050.

The new capital was projected to cost $32 billion. State funding peaked at $2 billion in 2024. President Prabowo Subianto took office that October and cut the budget to $700 million the next year. The 2026 budget is $300 million, an 85% drop in two years. The full move-in date has slipped from 2024 to 2028. Only 4,000 government workers are scheduled to relocate there this year.

A building shaped like a bird, designed by a sculptor, marked with a date, slowly turning green. The capital it was built to anchor may never fully arrive.

[IMF Africa @IMFAfrica]

IMF Projections 2026:
Angola🇦🇴:2.3%
Benin🇧🇯:7.0%
Côte d'Ivoire🇨🇮:6.2%
DR Congo🇨🇩:5.9%
Ethiopia🇪🇹:9.2%
Ghana🇬🇭:4.8%
Kenya🇰🇪:4.5%
Nigeria🇳🇬:4.1%
Senegal🇸🇳:2.2%
South Africa🇿🇦:1.0%
Tanzania🇹🇿:5.9%
Uganda🇺🇬:7.5%
Zambia🇿🇲:4.3%
Zimbabwe🇿🇼:5.0%
https://t.co/hYJAD113vP

[IMF @IMFNews]

IMF Growth Forecast 2026:
🇺🇸 US: 2.3%
🇩🇪 Germany: 0.8%
🇫🇷 France: 0.9%
🇮🇹 Italy: 0.5%
🇪🇸 Spain: 2.1%
🇬🇧 UK: 0.8%
🇯🇵 Japan:0.7%
🇨🇦 Canada: 1.5%
🇨🇳 China: 4.4%
🇮🇳 India: 6.5%
🇷🇺 Russia: 1.1%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1.9%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 1.6%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 3.1%
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 4.1%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 1.0%
https://t.co/Lq0Dsa8Mmp

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Ranked: The Countries Adding the Most to Global GDP (2026–2030) 📈

https://t.co/aRl5KzLp12

[KAT @reallKAT]

I’ve listened to this more than 42 times. Oh boy what a message!!!!🔥🔥🔥

[National Coffee Research Institute Uganda (NaCORI) @NaCORIUganda]

Dear @pmukasaofficial, great job! These KR (Kituza Robusta) coffee varieties are fast-maturing; flowering within 1 year (12 months) of planting. With good management practices, the first harvest is usually realized between 15 to 20 months. The KR coffee varieties are Coffee Wilt Disease (CWD) resistant, high-yielding, and can remain productive for up to 40 years. #Buy coffee seedlings from nursery operators certified by @CoffeeUganda #CoffeeResearchInnovations
#EmwanyiTelimba
#TheGoldenBean

[DBwambale @TheMutaD]

Ugandan high school infrastructure core. Hawthorne Scribner High School in rural Bududa district

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

The @Bad_Natives_Pod is back. We talked about what next after the upcoming election in Uganda with @AndrewMwenda. Doing this with @cobbo3 as well was a tad nostalgic. Enjoy this episode & let me know if we should do another after the election
BNP 041: Stability, Stagnation, Blood and Ballots: Uganda’s Museveni See... https://t.co/BJUWQpjgbu via @YouTube

[Jacob Otile, MD @DrOtileUg]

Your body can’t not live without Carbohydrates or “Only Protein Diet”. Finally someone who understands biochemistry and how the body works 👏👏

[Bwogi Ivan @bwogiva]

🤣 🤣 🤣

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

Ugandans, did this happen or it’s AI? 🤣🤣

[DBwambale @TheMutaD]

UGANDA's current GDP per capita is about the same as Indonesia's in 2005. An economy that is a mix of dirigiste + neo-liberal manouvers.
Like Indonesia vs the Philippines, UG is largely,now, not mentioned as favorably as Anglo leaning Kenya. It's not to be ignored, though.

[Charlie Robertson @CharlieTTEcon]

The top 15 African economies in 2025, estimated by the IMF with most of this year's exchange rates already known, and first half GDP figures mostly released

Nigeria still in fourth but expected to overtake Algeria in 2026

Kenya in 6th place, ahead of Ethiopia

Ghana in 8th

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Introverts hate rushing into things. They don't do "right nows". They need time. To think. To analyze. To stare at a wall and ponder over it for a while. To calculate the ins and outs. If you rush, they're out. If you want them in, they need a week's notice. At least.