Kojo Parris

Guyana-born ex-Rothschilds banker, MA Cantab & passionate about Social Entrepreneurship & Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM)

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

#negativitydistancing
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[Gagan🇮🇳 @1no_aalsi_]

It must be illegal to be bad at football in Brazil

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

A daycare video goes viral after capturing a baby girl taking her very first steps ❤️

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

This is tragic and painful to watch. A South African telling another fellow South African that they cannot work in another South African province simply because they come from a different province.

Someone once warned that when xenophobes and Afrophobes are done targeting foreign nationals in South Africa, they will eventually turn on fellow South Africans. That warning is now becoming reality.

Imagine a black South African telling another black South African that they do not “look like people from this province”, therefore they cannot work there. How painful is that? To be told in your own country that you do not belong because of how you look, how you speak, or where you come from.

This is backward. This is dangerous. This is a tragic failure of critical thinking and leadership. South African leaders should never allow this poison to grow. History has already shown us where this type of thinking leads. In Rwanda, people were divided, dehumanised and eventually butchered on the basis of identity and appearance. We should never allow Africa to move anywhere near that darkness again.

What is happening is unacceptable on every level. It is heartbreaking as a black African to watch fellow black Africans treat each other this way. Those of us perceived to be elites are often insulated from this madness because we live in affluent areas and work internationally. But what about ordinary people trying to survive? Are we now saying a carpenter from Gauteng cannot travel to North West to look for work because he “does not look like people from there”?

Come on. This is bad. Very bad.

Africa cannot progress while people are taught to hate one another over provincial identities, ethnicity or nationality. Leaders across the continent must stand up firmly against this nonsense before it destroys communities and generations. Africa needs unity, dignity, tolerance and opportunity, not this shameful politics of division.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

You are not a team because you work together. You are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Sometimes you win by losing 🏆

[Christopher Kratovil @chris_kratovil]

It’s not every day that one gets to listen to a former British Prime Minister recite from memory the opening passages of The Iliad in Ancient Greek, with no notes, in response to a random question from an undergraduate—and all while wearing what appear to be Thomas The Tank Engine socks. But today was one such day.

My thanks to my good friend Brad LaMorgese for the opportunity to see the colorful and comic Boris Johnson speak tonight at the University of Dallas.

[Henriette Frohlich @henriettefroh]

When Ministers (who are elected to represent the public) mention that they have 24 hour security at home (at the expense of taxpayers), you know they are (in) trouble. #DemocracyMatters

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@CrimeWatchZW Sad, but perhaps a fitting metaphor for what the seemingly powerful should be aware

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

One of the best and most beautiful benefits of being kind is seeing the world reciprocate

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@SizweLo Can anyone provide/advise on how to obtain the full speech...?

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

Isn't it lovely when the bad guys fight!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

Simply perfect

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Years have passed....but they're still the same.

What are their names in your language?

[Maria Sarungi Tsehai @MariaSTsehai]

Thank you @Mo_IbrahimFdn for speaking Truth to Power
@SuluhuSamia treats even us activists and journalists in inhumane way
Tell @MaEllenSirleaf to walk back her praise of her “sister” , Samia has brought nothing but SHAME to women leadership

Mzee Mo Ibrahim naye kachana mkeka!
Huyu Mama yenu kwisha habari!
Mi niliwaambia lakini ajiandae na mwisho mzuri mkataka kuniteka 🙄
Eniwei #TutaelewanaTu

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

Boss!

[BEDROOM MEDIA @Mageba_____]

I say some people are training their children to rule the world and some are shouting about washing plate.

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@PropesaTV Kenyan Woman - always leading!

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@RediTlhabi 3% of the global pop, fast shrinking 26% of global GDP, and the US is this person’s simpering preoccupation? But I suppose the @dailymaverick long lost any capacity for thoughtful & patriotic content

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@RediTlhabi I keep wondering who pays you for this drivel and the stuff in the Maverick. At least the BBC saw through it

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@InternetH0F give that woman a Bells!

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@AliveEvidence @RuthS3 Wow, will be great to reconnect!

[Kojo Parris @pmojok]

@MightiJamie Please America, PLEASE….send a few hundred more jumbos…..