Skaba Forgiva

Here for a good, and a bombastic long time neh

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

It'd be really funny if, 42 years from now, when Botswana has reached 100 years of independence and there would have been only 1 party ruling. And we're still stuck with the same problems: poor education, healthcare, water & electricity. 4 decades is a long time, but not really.

[MaMhlanga Nompumelelo @Mpumiln]

Jamali.

So happy to see them reunited and performing together again. Wow my heart is smiling 😊 🥰

[Nisa ♀ @nisafeminista]

There are MILLIONS of males who idolize him. MILLIONS of males who grew up watching his content and who will, and already do, inflict the same harm on women.

Never forget this.

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

@KamizaMBBS

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Se cumplen 64 años de la Operación Ranch Hand, en la cual el ejército imperialista de EEUU roció más de 80 millones de litros de Agente Naranja sobre el sur de Vietnam, envenenando a más de 4,8 millones de vietnamitas.

400.000 vietnamitas murieron o sufrieron lesiones permanentes debido a la exposición al Agente Naranja, el compuesto químico más tóxico jamás creado por el hombre, que destruyó el 20% de todos los bosques del pais y envenenó 10 millones de hectáreas de tierras que quedaron infértiles y contaminadas para siempre.

Cerca de medio millón de niños vietnamitas han nacido con graves malformaciones congénitas o discapacidades físicas y mentales, además potenciar más de 20 enfermedades graves, incluyendo cánceres y trastornos nerviosos.

[KATSEYE News @NewsKatseye]

Lara showcasing her undeniably amazing vocals with the song Speechless by Beyoncé.

#KATSEYE #Lara #Beyoncé

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

Legos from Prague, Czech Republic

Angela: have you considered doing stand up comedy or joining a roast panel because this level of wit and banter needs to be platformed 🤣😅.

[Andy Cohen @Andy]

My team is getting ready for THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA REUNION! Send me all your questions for the cast NOW and let me know where you’re from in the question!

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

it's truly incredible that an obscure desert tribe from the levant managed to export their bizarre neuroses to every corner of planet earth, huge props, really one of the greatest runs of all time

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

At this rate I'm convinced I should read the Polygamist book

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

@unclewaffffles maWafflaaaaa, ware o chekiwa kae mo Berlin after your concert tonight? Whisper for me 😅

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

In my address titled "The Political Economy of Obedience," delivered last month at the Josef Korbel School of Global Affairs at the University of Denver, I identified five key mechanisms through which African populations have been trained into political compliance. I am sharing a summary here because they explain precisely what we are watching play out in real time every day on this continent.

The first is colonial education. The curriculum inherited from the French, the Brits or the Portugese administration was not designed to produce critical citizens. It was designed to produce a particular kind of political subject. one who understood authority as something to be respected rather than questioned, and who experienced his own political traditions as a source of shame rather than institutional possibility. As I said in Denver, the most effective political prisons are not made of concrete. They are made of curriculum. The Togolese school I attended taught us the genealogy of French kings with more precision than the history of the governance systems that predated French colonial presence on our territory.

The second is the economy of obedience itself. Authoritarian systems endure not primarily through permanent terror but because they structure the relationship between political compliance and material survival so that obedience becomes, for most people most of the time, the rational choice. Access to employment, scholarships, market licenses, import authorizations, health clinic access: none of it politically neutral, all of it conditioned on loyalty. People in these systems do not collaborate with power because they are morally deficient. They collaborate because the scaffolding of their daily lives has been designed to make non-collaboration economically catastrophic.

The third is the family as a site of control. In conditions of economic precarity, the individual who considers a dissident act must calculate not only her own risk but the risk she imposes on her parents, her siblings, her children, her cousins etc. I have watched people of intelligence and moral clarity retreat from political engagement not because they were afraid for themselves but because they could not justify the devastating exposure their activism would bring to their families. The authoritarian state does not need to threaten everyone. It only needs to ensure that the threat to one is visible and comprehensible to all.

The fourth is religion. In many parts of Africa, religious institutions have been deployed, not by their most honest practitioners but by their most politically convenient ones, to transmit a theology of earthly resignation and otherworldly reward that discourages political engagement. The pastoral instruction to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's sits very comfortably with the interests of Caesars who have no intention of rendering anything to anyone. Liberation theology, which in Latin America produced an extraordinary tradition of religiously grounded political resistance, has had a far more contested reception in much of African Christianity and Islam, partly because of the direct entanglement of many religious institutions with state power, which has made spiritual authority and political compliance structurally allied.

The fifth is media. In authoritarian African contexts, state and privately owned media aligned with power do not typically practice crude propaganda. They practice something more subtle and more durable: the selection of what is visible and what is invisible; the framing of social problems as natural phenomena rather than political choices; and the treatment of opposition voices as marginal or foreign-funded. The film industry participates in this discipline in its own way, through the systematic promotion of narratives that depict poverty and wealth as conditions of fate or personal failure, stories in which the distance between the poor and the rich has everything to do with luck, talent or divine favour and nothing to do with power, policy or the deliberate engineering of inequality.

The cumulative effect, over decades, is a population whose political imagination has been narrowed to the point where alternatives are genuinely difficult to conceive, not because the alternatives do not exist, but because the political ecosystem has ensured they remain invisible.

These are the operating manual of authoritarian systems on this continent. And authoritarianism today is not limited to regimes with a known dictator who has held power for decades. It extends equally to regimes that perform a change of leadership through placebo elections conducted every four to five years, producing a new face every eight to ten years while the same system of impunity, patronage and repression remains structurally intact.

I would argue that these are in fact the more dangerous form of authoritarianism because their citizens are deceived into believing they are living under a democracy when they are in reality governed by plutocrats. The citizen under an obvious dictatorship at least knows what he is fighting. The citizen under a rotating plutocracy has been convinced there is nothing to fight at all. He votes, he watches a new face take the oath, and he mistakes the performance of transition for the substance of change. He ends up with no voice, no justice, no agency, and worse, no drive to fight for his own dignity. For one can only fight for liberation after acknowledging one's condition of oppression.

[🇵🇸 @med7ic]

final stage of grief is pursuing a career in the field you studied

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

Met Gala doesn't hit the same since 2024

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

Another fire album by @durandbernarr !! ❤️

[keeno @ayekeeno]

Kehlani opens up about getting her breast implants removed after 4 years due to “breast implant illness,” saying it’s something many women with implants experience but don’t always talk about 😳👀

“my bones and joints would ache all the time, I couldn’t sleep without pain meds”

[Me @KirkWrites79]

Ari sounds so good. And those background singers deserve a raise 😮‍💨

[Godisamang Khunou @Miss_Godi]

I don’t like the way this documentary is going, which implies that something was fundamentally broken inside Mama Winnie after the torture and it’s not her fault, it’s the violence she endured. That completely discredits her work, and actions that were in our best interests.

[Ị gbara aka bịa ịlụ m? @_SLYTAUREAN]

SOMETHING VERY INSIDIOUS IS GOING ON IN SENEGAL.
NOT ONLY DID THEY DOUBLE THE JAIL TIME FOR HOMOSEXUALITY, THEY ARE ACTIVELY HUNTING DOWN GAY FOLKS, FORCE-TESTING THEM FOR HIV, OUTING THEIR STATUS, WHILE IMPRISONING THEM FOR "INTENTIONAL HIV TRANSMISSION"
THIS IS TROUBLING!

[Just Tumi @TheDeveloperess]

It’s been 3 years. The trial hasn’t even begun. Oh Nandipha my dear 😭

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

Debswana Diamond Company has today been announced as the official title sponsor of the World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26.

The partnership reinforces the shared commitment of both parties in advancing Botswana’s position globally through one of the most significant international sporting events to be hosted in the country.

Official press release 🔗https://t.co/y8Sa8GP6Zs

#WorldRelays

[Skaba Forgiva @DamnDelete]

You better cook my meat