Despite spending time in Belgium and later France under quarantine and medical screening measures to ensure they had not contracted Ebola, not a single DR Congo supporter traveling from Kinshasa was granted a U.S. visa for the World Cup. Among them was Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, better known as “Lumumba,” an iconic Leopards supporter who became one of the most recognizable faces of AFCON 2025.
Since the start of this tournament, we have been witnessing clear bias against African countries embedded in visa and immigration systems.
Respect artistes a little more. Before a song gets to your ears, money has gone into production, recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, videos, marketing and things people never see. Every release is a financial risk. The music may be free to stream, but it was not free to make.
You can't build a serious economy on malls, fintech, tenders and imports.
We need factories, farms, mines (which also link to beneficiation), refineries, rail, ports, engineers, nuclear plants, artisans, workers.
The US has refused to host Iran's national team for the World Cup even though they have to play all their games there
Which means they're based in Tijuana and will have to fly on the day of their games
I've never heard of this kind of discrimination in World Cup history
Mental decolonization is not about rejecting all Western knowledge.
It is about no longer using Western knowledge as the only lens through which you understand yourself and your world.
Justine Skye, Chxrry, Natanya, Bayli, Tinashe, Jae Stephens, Essosa, Leigh-Anne, Ravyn Lenae, RM47 and Rochelle Jordan coming to revive the Black pop scene fr.
Bees are responsible for pollinating about one in three bites of the food we eat. They are far more important to humans than any AI tool or data center.
You’re born onto a planet you never asked to exist on…
and society immediately hits you with: “Okay, now go earn the right to eat, sleep, rest, and have shelter.”
Like… zoom out for a second.
We’re floating on a rock in infinite space and we created a game where you have to spend most of your life working just to not starve or freeze to death.
The whole concept is actually insane when you think about it.
If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.
They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.