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[ari @innear]

Thanks Farida!

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

The Real Author of African Poverty

Across generations and across borders, African governments have demonstrated a remarkable talent for dissipating public wealth, a talent that might inspire admiration were it not responsible for so much human suffering(...).

Before European partition, people moved across this continent with a freedom that the artificial precision of colonial cartography was specifically designed to destroy. The borders that today separate Ghana from Togo, Nigeria from Niger, South Africa from Zimbabwe were not drawn by the people who lived on either side of them. They were drawn in Berlin in 1884 by men who sorted human communities, languages, ethnic groups and centuries of shared civilisation into administrative units according to the logic of European imperial competition and not the logic of African human geography.

Postcolonial politics transformed these imposed borders into the primary unit of belonging, and African governments have enforced them against their own continental siblings with a thoroughness the colonisers who drew them would have found entirely satisfying. The Ewe, Dagomba and Akan, divided between Ghana, Togo, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire by lines drawn in Europe by men who could not have named their villages. The Hausa and the Fulani, split between Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger. The Wolof, parcelled between Senegal and Gambia. The Tswana divided between Botswana and South Africa. The Swazi between Eswatini and South Africa. The Ndebele between Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Lozi between Zambia and Botswana. The Chewa between Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. The Maasai split between Kenya and Tanzania. The Somali fragmented across Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti, a dispossession so complete that it contributed directly to a century of conflict that the international community has consistently misread as tribal pathology rather than colonial cartography.

These communities did not become South African or Botswanan, Nigerian or Nigerien, Kenyan or Tanzanian because their histories pointed in that direction. They became so because partition required it, and because postcolonial governments, having inherited the colonial state’s territorial logic, chose to reproduce it rather than interrogate it. Communities that predate the borders defining them were made foreigners in landscapes their ancestors had shaped for centuries. And the governments presiding over that dispossession have had the audacity, at every xenophobic crisis, to invoke the language of African brotherhood.

We did not create these borders. But we have used them to dispossess, expel and scapegoat each other with a consistency that serves the interests of every corrupt government on this continent and the interests of no ordinary African people anywhere.

The Moral of a History Nobody Wants to Own

No African government raising its voice against the xenophobic violence in South Africa today has clean hands. Ghana expelled half a million people while its own governance failures went unexamined. Nigeria expelled two million while its oil revenues were being systematically looted. Zambia, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Gabon: every corner of this continent has, at some moment of economic or political stress produced by the failures of its own political class, reached for the same instrument. The foreign national as the answer to a question whose real answer would require the powerful to account for themselves.

This is the function that xenophobia serves in the political landscape of African governance, and it is a function that will continue to be served as long as African populations can be induced to direct their frustration downward toward the most vulnerable people among them rather than upward toward the class that has consistently failed them(...).

Read full piece:
https://t.co/X8tQKGzgxl

[Black Albino. @Black_Dee99]

This song deserves to be played in the World cup. In fact, it should be the anthem.

[ari @innear]

He who controls the seeds controls you! Here is our future with GMOs. @Afsafrica

[Slim @onu_slim]

Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.

The official story blames fungal blight.

But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.

An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.

That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.

Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?

Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.

The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.

Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.

[ari @innear]

@LearnLoopz Reset

[AJ+ français @ajplusfrancais]

Le wax, souvent considéré comme le tissu emblématique de l’Afrique, est en réalité l’une des plus grosses “impostures” de la mode. On vous explique comment il a infiltré le marché local pour dominer l’industrie du pagne sur le continent.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 GLOBALISM JUST DIED IN DAVOS

Howard Lutnick just walked into the lion’s den — and told the World Economic Forum exactly what they didn’t want to hear.

“Globalism has failed.”

Not whispered.
Not softened.

Declared — on their own stage.

He dismantled the entire WEF doctrine in minutes:
• Offshoring hollowed out the West
• Cheap labor destroyed innovation
• Net Zero made Europe dependent on China
• Sovereignty begins with borders
• Nations must control their industry, energy, and medicine

Then came the line that shook the room:

“Why would Europe agree to Net Zero when they don’t even make a battery?”

That’s the truth globalists can’t answer.

Green agendas without industry.

Climate pledges without sovereignty.

Moral posturing while outsourcing power to Beijing.

America First isn’t isolation.

It’s independence.

And Lutnick made it crystal clear:

The old model is finished.

The globalist experiment has failed.
And the future belongs to nations that put their people first.

Davos just heard the obituary — live.

[Alain Mabanckou @amabanckou]

‼️Avez-vous déjà (re)lu ce livre ? L’un des plus grands romans de la littérature africaine. #Guinee #LenfantNoir #CamaraLaye

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Dr. Gladys West, the Black mathematician whose brilliance made GPS possible, has passed at 95. Born on a Dinwiddie County farm during the Great Depression, she overcame segregation to become a scientist and map the world—literally. May we never forget her legacy or the path she paved for generations of mathematicians.

[Bachelor of Idan @BachelorIdan]

In 1977, Lagos hosted over 16,000 artists, creatives, and cultural workers from different parts of the world. King Sunny Ade opened Festac 77 with the song 'Welcome to Nigeria', a song which many considered the unofficial anthem.

Stevie Wonder stole the show and even stayed back, along with several artists, after the festival.

Though official history does not do justice to the monumental event, its memories can be accessed via many albums it inspired, from top artists from all over the world.

[Eco tonic | wellness 🌿 @WisdomLifeHack]

Plant for your health.

[ari @innear]

@Chima_Obi1234 Human life does not mean anything to a lot of 'medical people' who supposedly help, heal, etc. Do not let go! This anesthesiologist has to stop killing people. @ChimamandaReal May your little one rest in eternal peace. May the ancestors keep him for you.

[Zhang Heqing @zhang_heqing]

Official Guinness World Record: Shanghai 65,000 Drone Show (2026)

Witness the impossible as history is made over the Shanghai skyline! This is the official Guinness World Record breaking performance featuring an unbelievable fleet of 65,000 drones lighting up the night in 2026.

This video captures the full scale of the largest aerial display ever attempted. Set against the iconic backdrop of the Bund and the Pudong skyscrapers, like the Oriental Pearl Tower, this isn't just a light show—it's a glimpse into the future of technology and entertainment.

Watch as tens of thousands of perfectly synchronized drones morph into massive 3D formations, including the breathtaking colossal dragon seen in the thumbnail, and many other stunning visuals that span across the entire city. The sheer scale and precision of this event redefine what is possible.

If you missed the live event, this high-definition footage is your front-row seat to the spectacle the whole world is talking about.

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#DroneShow #GuinnessWorldRecord #China #65000Drones #FutureTech #TheBund #Shanghai2026 #WorldRecord #LightShow #TravelChina #TechNews
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[☥ Seth _ Kemite ☥ @King__Bantu]

La cible de Trump c’est l’AES.

Le Nigeria a été bombardé par Donald Trump dans le but de protéger les chrétiens ?

[🟥SANGO'S✊🏿WRATH🟩 @DetroitBabalawo]

Donald Trump doesn't give a damn about Black Christians in Nigeria or America. The bombing of Northern Nigeria is a strategic military move to invade the growing Pan African states of the Sahel & control their resources.

[☀️🌻Annac&toujoursmoi🌻☀️ ☦️ 1/2 @Anna_C_moi]

Nous sommes en 1971.
Déjà,à l'époque,les paysans tiraient la sonnette d'alarme.
Monsieur Poffet,paysan,alertait sur la chimie dans les cultures :"L'air pur, l'eau pure et une terre saine...de ces trois choses nous n'en avons plus une seule."
Des paroles de bon sens non écoutées.

[vaudais toujours 🍉 🍉 @TFilastin]

MAXIMUM DE PARTAGE PARTAGEZ CAR ILS NE VONT PAS LES JETTER POUR FAIRE DES PERTES.

[ari @innear]

he crossed over ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 forever a fan: https://t.co/vK8DssJf8F

[Nerd Jackson @NerdJackson_]

This is the "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" original home demo. A masterpiece written & composed solely by Michael. He had Randy & Janet bang on glass bottles to give this song a unique rhythm✨️

[mrredpillz jokaqarmy @JOKAQARMY1]

Electric quick service stations for cars. Hidden knowledge on what was in the past.

[@kaboomer @boglyboohoo]

@BGatesIsaPyscho The absolute best converters of sunlight into energy for mankind is.............. plants............ no question about it. So why do we keep cutting them down to produce wasteful solar and wind farms. It beggars belief.