Catherine

[👑𝔸𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚 𝔾𝕚𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕖🇬🇭 @ashanti_42840]

This chart really suprised me, 'Africans' are so far away from everybody else. Wow.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is exactly how history gets twisted, castrated, and morphed into full-blown propaganda.

There is nothing more insensitive and criminally offensive than blaming the poverty in Africa solely on the premise that Africans failed to learn trade, statecraft, and management techniques from their colonial masters. This analysis would only be correct if colonialism was a joint venture where the colonizers brought in their technology and superior machinery, engaged in training the locals on how to use them, and set up a robust educational system to support and sustain that development.

Colonialism never assumed this shape or form. It was evidently a one-way, abusive relationship where the colonizers violently imposed their will and mandate on their colonial subjects. The only technology brought to them were the machine guns used to subjugate the people. The heavy machinery used to refine and process their agricultural crops and mineral wealth was stationed exclusively in the capital cities of the colonial empire. Even the machines that were supposed to assist or facilitate the extraction of this mineral wealth were not brought into the besieged countries, simply because it was cheaper to use bullets to force the people to work nonstop under the scorching sun with bare, medieval farming tools.

The railways built in several parts of Africa and the rest of the Global South do not count as development either. They merely served as a logistical mechanism to facilitate the extraction of resources from the slave plantations to the seaports, not to connect the people or facilitate domestic trade. The schools and courtrooms erected also do not count. They were never fully-fledged learning grounds designed to build professionals who would manage the country for the greater good. Instead, they were grooming grounds for clerks and typists whose sole purpose was to manage the administrative paperwork of wealth extraction. The newly trained judges only served the function of upholding the criminal declarations of the empire whenever it was time to steal indigenous lands or unjustly imprison critics of the colonial plantation.

Therefore, blaming the colonized for not learning how to build railways, skyscrapers, and modern technology from their colonial masters is nothing but a severe manifestation of historical ignorance. Furthermore, the fact that this documentary is based on the Congolese experience makes the entire narrative a total sham.

The Congolese were not only exploited, subjugated, and subjected to genocide by the Belgians. The most damning reality is that the moment they truly voted and rallied behind a revolutionary leader who would work for the betterment of the Congolese people shortly after gaining independence, that leader was violently overthrown. Patrice Lumumba was couped out of office, humiliated on the streets of the Congo, gunned down by a firing squad, and his body was later dissolved in acid. All of these acts were orchestrated by a coalition of Western intelligence agencies, a fact that is now well-documented in history books. In place of Lumumba, Mobutu Sese Seko was ushered into power. He turned the Democratic Republic of Congo into a neo-colonial slave plantation for global powers to exploit as they saw fit, all while Western governments protected his brutal regime.

This is not just about the Congo. We are witnessing in real time how France has carried out the exact same playbook in the Sahel, currently teaming up with proxy forces to topple revolutionary governments and return the Sahelian states back to their default settings as neo-colonial slave plantations. This is the grim reality of virtually all sovereign states in the Global South that once served as plantation farms for Western oligarchs.

The sad reality is that the people who produce these documentaries, and those who amplify them on social media platforms, see, know, and understand all of this perfectly well. The Western journalists who write and depict Africans as savages unfit to govern themselves know this is not the case, but they keep pushing these propaganda pamphlets because it helps sustain the system of extraction. It ensures that the working-class citizens living within the imperial core do not see the poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the foundational sine qua non that sustains the technology, infrastructure, and industrialization they enjoy in the Global North.

They have to be propagandized into seeing our poverty as a testament to our supposed laziness and lower intelligence quotients, rather than as the direct result of centuries of over-exploitation. Even though it has been meticulously proven by economists that for every $1 sent to the Global South in aid, about $14 is extracted and shipped out to subsidize the luxury of the Global North, this information is neatly wrapped up and tossed away. It does not conform to the prevailing narrative that Africa and the rest of the Global South remain grossly underdeveloped despite trillions supposedly spent on "aid."

Of course, the workers of the Global North are also slaves to this exact same capitalist system. But as long as they are housed in nicer prisons and conditioned to see the rest of us working in the open fields of the Global South as "lesser" than them, the capitalist ruling class will continue to sit at the top of the food chain for the rest of human history.

[Catherine @cwkagume]

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[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Understand the concept of "by-and-large" and use approximations. Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking. For example, when asked to multiply 38 by 12, most people do it the slow and hard way rather than simply rounding 38 up to 40, rounding 12 down to 10, and quickly determining that the answer is about 400. Look at the ice cream shop example and imagine the value of quickly seeing the approximate relationships between the dots versus taking the time to see all the edges precisely. It would be silly to spend time doing that, yet that's exactly what most people do. "By-and-large" is the level at which you need to understand most things in order to make effective decisions. Whenever a big-picture "by-and-large" statement is made and someone replies "Not always," my instinctual reaction is that we are probably about to dive into the weeds--i.e., into a discussion of the exceptions rather than the rule, and in the process we will lose sight of the rule. #principleoftheday

[Miracle of Mind Official @miraclemindapp]

You’ve got 7 minutes. The question is, how do you want to use this time?

[Catherine @cwkagume]

@ishafoundation @SwamiKaalya 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Addis Fortune @addis_fortune]

In an unprecedented shift in economic policy, Ethiopia has announced the liberalisation of its foreign exchange market, a move set to take effect on Monday, July 29, 2024.

Read more https://t.co/wZENI93JxC

[Anwen Kya 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Kyatic]

Enormous drama in my village Facebook group: a man has been committing the cardinal sin of feeding the birds by putting bird feeders up on a public tree, so a bunch of his neighbours have clubbed together and... chopped the tree down at midnight with a chainsaw.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

@ProfitableMan1 Brazil never liberated itself from anything. It was a successful settler-colonial project (got rid of the natives and created an entire new identity based on the cultural and racial ideals of the colonisers).

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How long it takes for things to decompose

[Dubai One @DubaiOneTV]

#Sadhguru emphasizes the vital importance of soil regeneration, highlighting its crucial role in sustaining life and nurturing environmental health.

@cpsavesoil
@sadhguruJV

#Savesoil #Savesoilmovement #soilregeneration #climatechange

[COP28 UAE @COP28_UAE]

Sadhguru, Founder of Isha Foundation, is at COP28 to highlight the crucial role of soil in mitigating the impact of climate change.

@SadhguruJV #COP28

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

For over 1,300 years Chinese strivers focused on passing exams to become scholar-officials. The keju system crowded out other paths to social mobility and stifled innovation.

A new book examines how Xi Jinping is repeating its mistakes https://t.co/a1WRKaCwoH 👇

[Dr. Bala Subramaniam @balachundhar]

A glimpse into last weeks Conference and Harvard Sanders Theatre event.

We deeply appreciate the distinguished speakers and panelists for their role in making these groundbreaking and inspiring events.

Full video release information in our newsletter: https://t.co/fgprnymlAI

[David Nahinga Π 🇰🇪✊🏿 @dnahinga]

There is a company called @CobHouseKenya doing some amazing experiment!

So far, they have built two houses.

A cob house is basically mud mixed with very minimal quantities of cement and a binder (can be hay, fiber or Rockwool etc)

The results are promising in the space of Affrodable Housing

IG Page: https://t.co/Ju29XU3eUr

Thread on Cobhouse Construction. All images are from Cob House Kenya.

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Soil is not just dirt. The ground beneath our feet is more precious than we know.

5 of #soils' best kept secrets...

Via @FAO

[Agìkūyū Women & Men @AgikuyuWomen]

Professor Kìhumbu Thairū, a medical doctor by profession, a specialist in brain function, presents the Agìkūyū and Africans in general with the compelling information about colonialism and Christianity and it's effects on the the Africa way of life. He proposes re-orientation and

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Should data scientists and applied statisticians put in the huge amount of effort needed to learn measure theory?

After years of searching, I finally found the answer in this book. Read on if you're curious.

[Central Bank of Kenya @CBKKenya]

Introducing the CBK DhowCSD portal! A new easy way to invest in Government Securities.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Our ancestors had a profound way of dealing with P.T.S.D. It was believed that after a war when a man had returned from war, before he could be accepted back into society. He had to live with a shaman for 3 months to do some spiritual cleansing.

It was said that after war, the human spirit was off balance and required to undergo some ritual in order to restore it back in harmony with nature and the community. A horn was used to draw out stagnant and dsyfunctional blood to the surface.

This is one of the ritual that was performed on the worriors to cleanse them of any mental illness and trauma that they might experience later on in life after the war.

This process was carried out by Africans long ago before it was allegedly deemed a Chinese invention. It was called "African suction cup," by the colonizers. This is one of the many practices that have been lost due to African s.lavery and colonization.

#Africa