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Loyola Law / UT Arlington / College Elikya alumnus. Nomad. Polyglot. Avid Traveler. History Buff. Sports Enthusiast. Wine Aficionado. Too tall for shortcuts!

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Absolute SCENES in Paraguay as they watch their team advance 🇵🇾

(via @SantiCarneri)

[The Associated Press @AP]

When something breaks, most of us replace it. At this Brooklyn repair cafe, volunteers are helping neighbors fix everything from lamps and jeans to vintage fans and old smartwatches for free. The events are part of a growing global movement to reduce waste, save money and bring back repair skills that many people say have been lost.

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

Fimbu

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

AMÍLCAR CABRAL: A GLOBAL HERO

Around the world, Pan-Africanists, socialists, intellectuals, and other activists and organisers in various movements and struggles study and pay homage to Amílcar Cabral. Even the BBC, not typically a fan of Pan-African revolutions, was forced to honour the excellence of Amílcar Cabral, who was voted second place in their poll of "greatest leaders in world history."

But why exactly was Amílcar Cabral such a globally important leader? In this video, we explore the impact of Cabral not just in his native Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, but also in Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, and even in Portugal.

However, as much as this video highlights the important role of Cabral and his leadership, we also emphasise the collective effort of his organisation, the African Party for the Liberation of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC). After all, Cabral described the PAIGC as the "instrument capable of leading the masses to understanding the nature of their own exploitation, then mobilising them, giving them a framework, a political consciousness, so that they would support the war, of transforming them into militants, of founding the nation. A party, the PAIGC, guided by a revolutionary theory."

What about Amílcar Cabral, the PAIGC, and the African struggles against Portuguese colonialism inspires you the most?

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

DR Congo is inspiring countries all over the world 🇨🇩

@MelissaMOrtiz | @SachaKljestan | @bguzan

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Africa had the best group stage progression percentage of any continent at this World Cup, with 9 out of 10 teams making it through 📈🌍

🟢 Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
🟢 Morocco 🇲🇦
🟢 South Africa 🇿🇦
🟢 Cape Verde 🇨🇻
🟢 Egypt 🇪🇬
🟢 Senegal 🇸🇳
🟢 Algeria 🇩🇿
🟢 Ghana 🇬🇭
🟢 DR Congo 🇨🇩
🔴 Tunisia 🇹🇳

(@CAF_Online)

[Statman Dave @StatmanDave]

Axel Tuanzebe’s game by numbers vs. Uzbekistan:

91% pass accuracy
68 touches
17 carries
7 clearances
5 duels contested
5 duels won
3 progressive carries
2 fouls won
0 fouls committed

An outstanding performance in a historic win. 👏

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

WHAT A MOMENT FOR DR CONGO 🇨🇩

THEY ARE HEADED TO THE ROUND OF 32!

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

A thrilling comeback from Congo DR to secure a spot in the knockouts! 🇨🇩

#FIFAWorldCup

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

THE LEOPARDS LEAP IN TO THE ROUND OF 32 🇨🇩

WHAT A MOMENT FOR DR CONGO AND ITS FANS!

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

SCENES IN ATLANTA

LOOK WHAT IT MEANS TO DR CONGO AND THEIR FANS 🇨🇩

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Zlatan reacts to DR Congo's first-ever Knockout Stage appearance at the FIFA World Cup

@Ibra_official

[Brut Afrique @BrutAfrique]

🇨🇩 Premiers joueurs d'Afrique subsaharienne à disputer une Coupe du monde avec le Zaïre en 1974, Mafu Kibongé et Raoul Albert Kidumu assistent aujourd'hui au retour de la RDC sur la scène mondiale. Brut. les a rencontrés aux États-Unis pour évoquer leur héritage et transmettre un message à la nouvelle génération des Léopards.

En partenariat avec @FecofaRdc et @blocleopards

[AJ+ français @ajplusfrancais]

Le 26 juin 1960, Madagascar obtenait son indépendance. Mais la lutte pour y arriver fut un champ de bataille sanglant.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Three Brazilian sisters with a combined age of 316 are now the focus of a research project which aims to understand why some people stay physically and cognitively resilient well past the age of 100 https://t.co/xG4nl22Jnd

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

"KENYA'S PROBLEM IS THAT IT STILL RELIES ON THE WEST FOR IDEAS"

For Kenyan academic Wandia Njoya (@wmnjoya on X), Kenya's crisis is not a lack of policies, funding, or development plans, it is a crisis of thought.

She argues that too often, Kenyan elites look to West; the World Bank, OECD, UN agencies, and foreign policy papers for answers, treating development as a technical problem of implementation rather than asking deeper questions about power, institutions, and sovereignty.

She questions why Kenyan elites are still searching for solutions in the very systems that helped shape their problems? While public debate focuses on fixing individual problems, Njoya believes Kenya must confront the bigger question: what ideas are shaping the system itself?

Her argument is simple: no nation can build its future by outsourcing its thinking, especially not thinking from collapsing Western hegemons.

Finally, she argues that Kenya's real curse is actually having a mass Western-educated middle class pushing this agenda of dependence on the foreigners vs a Pan-African local model such as that demonstrated by Captain Ibrahim Traore in Burkina Faso.

Do you think Kenya's middle class is the problem? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

As a wave of anti-immigrant protests grip South Africa, this cultural historian says the country owes its cultural and economic history to immigrants from across the continent.

[CNN International @cnni]

Part of the fascination with Michel Kuka Mboladinga's tribute to Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister after gaining independence from Belgium, comes from the symbolism. The other part comes from the simple question on everyone's minds: How does one stay still with their arm raised for so long? https://t.co/xl2GeTw5il

[The Associated Press @AP]

Congo’s famous living statue finally made his World Cup debut on Tuesday.

Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, who gained fame during the Africa Cup of Nations for posing as a statue of Congo’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba for the entirety of games, attended Congo’s 1-0 loss to Colombia.

#Congo #FIFAWorldCup #MichelNkukaMboladinga #PatriceLumumba #LumumbaVea

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, better known as "Lumumba Vea," has stood motionless at matches since 2013 to honor DR Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba

As one of the country's most recognizable supporters, Vea was included in President Félix Tshisekedi's official World Cup delegation 🇨🇩💯