I’ve never been to Congo.
My French isn’t the best. I understand Lingala far better than I speak it.
So listening to Tiakola’s WpointM felt weirdly personal.
Two Congolese kids from the diaspora, him raised in France, me raised in London, both carrying a country in ways that don’t always look traditional.
Then add my cousin Gaetan executive producing the album and my friend Zaza at Sony being part of the project too. Yeah, this one is close to home.
Not really an album review.
More of a love letter to Congo, diaspora, language, family and the strange feeling of knowing exactly where you’re from, even when you’ve never been there.
New Substack.
https://t.co/6AL7UcjAji
This is why I find it so hard to post career content, and chase that “dream career”-
I’ve worked in every type of organisation and I feel like this career stuff is soul sucking and you’re surrounded by ghouls who wish to micromanage and harass you as a black person.
Working as a black person in the UK is a hellscape. Please save your money and secure your future by investing wisely.
I have done the palm oil challenge with the palm oil I have in my kitchen and here is the result 👇.
We have been eating palm oil mixed with poisonous dyes since without knowing.
Ah! and the oil is almost finished🙆😭
At this point, I am calling on the UK agency for food inspection to go on all African and Asian shops in the UK and do some random inspections on some of our imported African foods.
Who knows what other p0ison we have been eating in the name of African foods😭😭
Cc: Chukwuonye Chidimma Muoloo
La fille qui dénonce les conditions de travail chez Afolé, la partie où elle met l’audio du directeur qui dit “la viande rouge c’est interdit pour les employés, celui que j’attrape entrain de manger de la viande rouge […] il est viré” j’suis en fou rire 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
🇨🇩 The DRC's Leopards Bring Home $13.5 Million After Historic World Cup Campaign
By reaching the Round of 32, the Leopards are expected to earn approximately US$13.5 million from FIFA, one of the biggest financial rewards in the history of Congolese football.
Here's how it's calculated:
US$11 million for reaching the Round of 32 Plus US$2.5 million in preparation funding awarded to every qualified nation
Total: US$13.5 million
The money is paid to FECOFA, ( @FecofaRdc ) not directly to players. It can be used for player bonuses, technical staff, youth football, academies, infrastructure, and the long-term development of the game.
More importantly, this tournament changed Congolese football forever.
For the first time since the country's World Cup debut in 1974, DR Congo advanced beyond the group stage, becoming the first Congolese team to reach the knockout rounds of a FIFA World Cup.
The Leopards may have left the tournament after a 2–1 defeat to England, but they also returned home with history, global recognition, and a financial boost that could help shape the next generation of Congolese football. 🇨🇩
We qualified for the World Cup for the first time after 52 years.
We drew against Portugal. We won our first game against Uzbekistan and literally went toe to toe against England.
We made history, and for that, I am so proud of my boys.
CONGO TO THE WORLD AND BACK 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
Just found out that the designer and creative director of JMakxParis, Alvin JMak got into a partnership through an organisation that helps victims of the conflict in Congo and those victims helped create the uniforms 🥹