'Underdevelopment' in Africa - What's the Real Story? (Howard Nicholas) youtu.be/SaqgQvLn5sQ?si=tKZ0… via @YouTube

These children give me so much hope for Africa! 🥹 This is @tiossanacademy, the school I founded in Meckhé, a small town in Senegal. Our younger children learn by exploring and making things with their hands, using a Montessori-inspired approach that gives them room to follow their curiosity. The teenagers learn through Socratic dialogue. They discuss ideas and question each other, learning to explain why they believe something instead of simply repeating an answer. They also learn AI, coding, digital marketing, etc. We have had teens start making money with their new skills within just a few weeks! I am so proud of these kids. Seeing them discover what they can do is one of the most rewarding parts of our work, and I would love for more children to have the chance to learn this way! ❤️

I must say. It is interesting seeing how some of you are starting albeit still in a subtle way,to question your judgement on Ruto. I leave you this quote from a speech he made in July 23/2025. "The critics may say I am wrong. The cynics may say I am lying. And the naysayers may even say I am mad. But what if they are all wrong—and they are.What if I am an agent of destiny for the transformation of a nation whose promise has been delayed for far too long? Give me a chance, and judge me fairly when the time comes."

Dangote Lamu Refinery and The Myth of Feedstock First suzie-mugwe-3f9e47.netlify.a… @DavidNdii @HManyora @OwidiOdoyo @KihikaSamuel @muchey @OWALLARay @william_onono @BenjiNdolo @DavisMwendaK @KangetheWakanya @Waweru_Kibera @SakajaJohnson @oyugibenjy @MashKim9 @EqualityFreed

Africa has minerals. Africa has manufacturers. Africa has engineers and technicians. And Africa itself is a growing customer for electricity equipment. An entrepreneur can look inside a transformer and see a business. An engineer can see a capability. A manufacturer can see an opportunity. A financier can see productive enterprise. A young African can see a profession. And the economy does not end when the transformer enters the grid. It must be inspected, maintained, repaired and sometimes refurbished. So infrastructure bought yesterday can continue building African capability tomorrow. Now add other products like pumps, tractors etc to the equation. #BorrowedExtracts lnkd.in/p/drXZchRt

Well Africa HAS opened and given them full access…and watching heads of state going begging in Europe is even more nauseating

Lamu refinery must go on! Some political detractors & ethnic chauvinists opposed to Ruto administration have gone overdrive in the past few days in a doomed attempt to derail the launch of an oil refinery by Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote. The media gave them traction. Not surprising at all. Laughable indeed. But they only made a fool of themselves, asking why the haste? Who is Dangote? Who owns the shares? Where will it get crude oil? It's our ancestral land! Bla bla bla. Kenya built its first refinery, Kenya Petroleum Oil Refinery, in Mombasa in 1963, and was shut down by the Government in 2013. It didn't have problems obtaining crude. It was owned 100% by Shell & BP until GoK acquired 50% stake in 1971. These shenanigans had no qualms about it. In 2005, S Sudan wanted a refinery in Mombasa, with a rail & pipeline link to Juba. The Kibaki team blocked it, demanding shares. Uhuru, Godana & I were invited by S Sudan as official opposition to intervene. In 2008, Kibaki launched Vision 2030 in which Lappset corridor project was a flagship project. In 2012, an oil refinery in Lamu was included as a flagship project. Uhuru built 3 berths at Lamu port, spent over sh 42 billion & remained a white elephant. The Lappset road from Lamu to link Ethiopia, SSudan etc remained on paper. Ruto picks it up. The road is under construction. The port is getting ships. The refinery is getting launched. These ethnic chauvinists are suddenly alarmed. They rush to court, organize protests in Lamu and yap on the media.... Sad. They've led this country for decades & did not get us beyond the drinking dens of Karatina. Ruto sets the road to Singapore on his sights & they are getting choked. They mocked his inclusivity on development projects such as the Isiolo-Mandera highway. They rushed to court to block Rironi - Mai Mahiu Rd, NIF, etc. This delusion of entitlement must end. A $17 billion project is simply the most consequential investment in Kenya since independence. 700,000 b.p.d refinery is a game changer. The value chain in the economy is huge. These detractors should be ashamed. It's a pity some aspire to lead our nation. #DangoteWelcome #LamuRefinery

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote says Kenya’s planned Lamu refinery could form the base of a wider industrial complex, producing petrol, diesel and jet fuel while also supplying raw materials for the plastics industry #HomeOfHardTruths

Dangote on Bloomberg at the Qatar Forum dropping massive historic triumphs

A democratic spin on the capitalist model vs the planned model playing out w/ US-China?🤔 And would Samia vs Sufina be a slaughter or…

And to hear members of government argue similar sounding positions has been especially jarring

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

Disagree…someone has to point out “the emperor wears no clothes”. He’s pointing out EXACTLY one of the essential obstacles facing Africa…the culture that some people are better than others / above the law

Africa's greatest challenge is epistemic: how Africans see and understand themselves @AndrewMwenda

“It’s clear from the work they were doing on those big names that they knew that they needed to do something. “They’ve decided to keep their powder dry, whether it be for January or next summer.” @David_Ornstein discusses Arsenal’s summer transfer window, with Mikel Arteta’s side unsuccessful in their attempts to sign Vinicius Junior and Julian Alvarez.

Tanzania's huge Julius Nyere hydropower project was paid for by African taxes, and under the control of an African consortium. That’s something to celebrate, writes @mihirssharma (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

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Good call…except the slight worry that Barcola might not be disposed to fighting for place and Tzolis is real competition

A perfect example of why simply transplanting business models from one environment/country to another often does not produce the same results…