Nomxolisi Dywili

PhD Chemistry • MSc Nanoscience • Scientist • Anime lover • Avid reader

[Nomxolisi Dywili @nxobles]

...when you do good no one remembers. But when you do bad no one forgets.

[Colourmesim @Simphiwe__M]

Incase anyone who can change my life sees this- hi my name is Simphiwe Mbatha. Welcomes to ‘Makeup Inspired by African Flags’ PART 1. 39 flags that are love letters to each country. Part 2 coming soon ❤️🌍🇿🇦 #colourmesim

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

Someone said “Thixo khawusi applayele ngokwakho ngoku, nguwe oyaziyo uba sfunwaphi” and that is so real 😂😂

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

🕯 This candle is for anyone who is looking for umsebenzi and a breakthrough

[Nomxolisi Dywili @nxobles]

@gooonicorn She eats

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Be patient.

[Aesthetic.Guyy @Aestheticswallz]

God is love.

[Dr Moeketsi @AusBassie]

Day 336

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

When you least expect it, God answers and miracles happen.

[a heaux. @missmkize]

Pep Home is finally online 😭

[Lerato Pillay 🇿🇦💎🇿🇦 @LeratoPillayZA]

Meet Philani Zwane , he produces South Africa's first black-owned potato chips snack called P's Potato chips. The snacks comes in 4 flavors: Salt & Vinegar, Chutney, Paprika and Pepper.
Blacks in Business 🇿🇦

[Jobs with Aramide @AramideOyekunle]

You will be called for a job interview this week and you will get the job.

Claim It ❤️

[Lungisani Mjaji @MjajiLungisani]

It took me years to find success in the photography industry, and a year to win the hearts of many through my art of storytelling. Today, I’m humbled to share that I’ve been nominated for Best Photographer of the Year at SASMA 2025.

If you don’t know me yet,his name is Lungisani Mjaji a village boy who dared to dream and turned the impossible into possible, not by my strength alone, but through the love and support of the people. 🙏

Link to vote : https://t.co/ynFD6gTt5h

#sasma2025

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

This is Malibongwe. He graduated at UCT with a BSc in applied biology and biochemistry in 2018.

He has been unemployed since, currently living in Cape Town and he's living conditions have gotten worse. 💔His contact number is: 072 465 8775.

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.

America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.

It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.

This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.

And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.

If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.

Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.

But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.

And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.

We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.

America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

I pray you get that call and email that will change your life for good.

[Unathi @au_badela]

Mamas and dadas please check out these bursaries for your little ones. Best wishes ❤️