Many people are not asking why Ethiopia is being drawn into a full-blown civil war when it has just become Africa’s fastest-growing economy.

The greatest threat to our people is the belief that someone else will save them but not themselves. Let’s wake up to reality.

You are actually right; simply translating Western ideas into African languages keeps Africa intellectually dependent and fails to address real conditions. Genuine scholarship must start from African experiences, challenge inherited assumptions, and be judged by whether it actually improves material outcomes in areas like agriculture, energy, health, governance, and livelihoods. Historical examples (Cabral, Sankara, Diop, Wiredu, Ngũgĩ) show the value of theories built from local realities rather than imported frameworks. Current external competition for African resources makes this even more urgent, Africa needs original thinkers accountable to African institutions and results, not more translators serving outside agendas.

And some people especially many gullible Africans are still out here saying colonialism was ‘net positive’ while ignoring that part of the project was teaching Africans they had no past worth knowing.

Never forget that you can never negotiate dignity in a system built to deny it.

Agreed. Pre-colonial Africa had major kingdoms and empires (Mali, Songhai), centers of scholarship like Timbuktu with hundreds of thousands of manuscripts on astronomy, mathematics, law, and medicine, and impressive architecture such as Great Zimbabwe. Hegel’s claim that ‘Africa proper’ had no history was influential but incomplete. Acknowledging the documented record gives a fuller picture of the societies colonialism encountered.

🎯 💯 Digo o mesmo sobre a América Latina. Mas daí os EUA, depois de combinar a divisão de zonas de influência (mais pra zonas de extração de recursos naturais e exploração de recursos humanos) com seus dois “rivais” geopolíticos, ativaram seus capachos (Bolsonaros & Mileis & Fujimoris da vida) e suas ferramentas de dominação subcultural (de um lado da moeda, igrejas, especialmente as neopentecostais e as da renovação carismática, e seus missionários e pastores; do outro lado da mesma moeda, gente treinada pra propagar o exato “oposto” de tudo o que a crentelhada e a carolada prega)… E esses capachos e ferramentas de dominação subcultural destruíram nossas políticas, nossas economias e nossas sociedades. Então, em vez de estarmos unidos em benefício de nós mesmos, estamos feito baratas defendendo e votando pelos venenos que nos matam.

The marches in France started with high school students protesting underfunded and dilapidated schools, teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and the Parcoursup admissions system. They quickly broadened into a wider movement over the cost of living, declining public services, and demands for higher wages/benefits and “fiscal justice.” Unions and others joined. France's economic struggles haven't been the same since they were chased out of the Sahel, where they've been looting resources.

Cambridge University just transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin pieces to Nigeria. The Horniman returned theirs. Germany and the Netherlands have moved items back. The British Museum still holds ~900, cites the 1963 Act, and offers loans of objects taken by force in 1897 after the palace was burned. Nigeria called the loan idea an insult which is true. That’s the hypocrisy in one sentence: other institutions treat them as looted property; the Museum treats them as permanent inventory with a courtesy return option. The British Museum must make a way to return those artifacts to the rightful owners.

The dwarf gene is always strong no matter what.

The archaeological consensus is increasingly clear and increasingly detailed. The pyramids were built by ancient Egyptians. Not slaves. That’s a later myth, partly biblical in origin, comprehensively contradicted by the evidence. Workers’ villages have been excavated near Giza. We have records of their rations, their medical care, their organized labor gangs that gave themselves names. We have the Papyrus of Merer, an actual ancient diary discovered in 2013, written by an inspector who helped transport limestone for the Great Pyramid. A firsthand account, in Egyptian, describing the logistics of the construction in administrative detail. The tools were copper chisels, wooden sledges, ramps and, depicted in their own tomb paintings, water poured ahead of sledges to reduce friction on sand. The mathematics involved was precise enough to align the Great Pyramid to true north with an accuracy that still impresses engineers today. The granite came from Aswan, 800 kilometers away. The logistics alone represent an organizational achievement of the first order. Now here is the thing worth noticing. Nobody asks who really built the Palace of Knossos. Nobody publishes bestselling books suggesting the Greeks couldn’t possibly have engineered the Parthenon without outside assistance. Nobody makes a documentary implying the Persians didn’t actually build Persepolis. Nobody insists the Chinese couldn’t possibly have constructed the Great Wall. Yet somehow, when it comes to Egypt, human ingenuity is no longer considered explanation enough. The "mystery" of pyramid construction, the cottage industry of alternative theories, the aliens, the lost civilizations, the suspiciously unnamed advanced races, exists in the specific shape it does because the Egyptians were African. The moment you return Egypt to Africa, the mystery evaporates. It becomes what it always was: a sophisticated civilization building sophisticated things. The mystery was never about engineering. It was about making African genius unthinkable.

Comrade Etimbuk, whom I always called “my boss” or “001,” was more than a leader; he was a friend who always checked in and asked how I was doing. I will always cherish those thoughtful calls and the care behind them. As he is laid to rest today, may his soul rest in eternal peace. 🕊️ So sad that the Nigerian healthcare system failed you my brother.

Hiding Kimathi’s body was part of a wider pattern. During the Emergency, the colonial authorities ran a ‘Pipeline’ of detention camps where tens of thousands were held. Detainees faced systematic beatings, forced labour, castration, and other forms of torture to force confessions or break resistance. At Hola camp in March 1959, guards clubbed 11 prisoners to death for refusing to work; officials initially claimed they died after drinking contaminated water. Declassified files and later inquiries confirmed the beatings and the cover-up attempt. In 2013 the UK government paid nearly £20 million to over 5,000 survivors and formally recognised the torture and ill-treatment.

The same Burkina Faso they said was too poor to survive just approved an $8.2 billion budget without the IMF. Four years ago, Burkina Faso was broke. Today, its budget is the largest in its history.

Africa could become an economic powerhouse if we started working together! Imagine 54 African countries trading with one another instead of constantly depending on markets outside the continent. We have natural resources, agricultural land, a growing population, and talented young people; we can become an economic powerhouse if we embrace our potential.

Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 has rejected a controversial $1.6 million US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial involving 14,000 newborns. On Monday, Police in Guinea-Bissau seized a batch of vaccines from a facility affiliated with a stalled, US-funded hepatitis B immunization trial on newborn babies that the WHO has slammed as "unethical". The study, which would randomize whether or not 14,000 newborns in the highly impoverished west African nation receive a hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, was suspended pending further technical review, the WHO said in February. The Guinea-Bissau judicial police said they carried out a "seizure of a batch of hepatitis B vaccines intended for the immunization of children in the country" on Monday.

Sadly, you are no more with us brother, a friend who never disappointed in checking up on and caring for those around him, your life was so short and untimely, but your life was a blessing; your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure. Rest in perfect peace my friend 🕊️

This should be done in every university in Africa; we need more people to learn and acquire skills.

Carl Richard Lepsius the founder of modern Egyptology once said “Where we expected to see an "Egyptian" we saw an authentic negro. But some gullible people will tell you that ancient Egypt (Kemet) was never an African civilization before experiencing several invasions. Hypocrites.

Mali 🇲🇱 has formally shifted the status of its languages, replacing French as an official language with 13 national languages, including Bambara, Tamasheq and Songhay. The National Transitional Council unanimously approved the change today, with 122 votes in favor and none against. The decision implements the 2023 Constitution, which established the national languages as the country’s official languages. French will remain the working language of the administration. The 13 languages named in the law are Bambara (Bamanankan), Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Peul (Fulfulde), Hasanya, Mamara, Malinké (Maninkakan), Soninke, Songhay, Sénoufo (Syenara), Tamasheq and Khassonké. Lawmakers said the changes aim to prevent discrimination against speakers of these languages. The text was revised after the Constitutional Court called for clearer wording earlier this year. The change marks a formal move away from French’s official status and toward the languages spoken by most Malians.

The atrocities that are ongoing in Sudan need to be heard; it's a humanitarian crisis that needs to be tackled. Sudan is bleeding and the women are suffering all because of the greed of the UAE and USA who are sponsoring the killĩngs just because of Sudan’s gold.