African gig workers are shocked to learn that they may have unknowingly trained the systems Russia uses against protesters.

Serving Putin – without even knowing it

African gig workers are shocked to learn that they may have unknowingly trained the systems Russia uses against protesters.

The Truth of the Matter: Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/t...

Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age

Frank McCourt, chairman of McCourt Global and founder of Project Liberty, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Huma

I’ve just paid 4,083 GBP for a PhD student visa to the UK. I haven’t paid the flight fee and the accommodation fee yet. The ground will never be level for anyone in the global south competing with high exchange rates and these risible visa fees.

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No sex scenes, no social media, no Hollywood parties: How Denzel Washington became the most respected actor in the industry

The Oscar winner is about to turn 70 doing what he does best, alternating action flicks with cerebral movies while remaining out of the headlines

“I’ve been proud to say if the facts dispute our ideology, change the ideology.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/u...

Tim Walz’s Bumpy Road to Gun Control

The vice-presidential candidate wasn’t always tough on firearms. When he ran for Minnesota governor, he tried to recast a legislative record that had gotten high marks from the N.R.A.

Tebogo is after all, not just the first Motswana to win any Olympic medal but also the first African citizen to win a 200m gold medal at the world’s premier sporting meet. Get your free copy here.

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Private initiatives have distributed cartons of food, clothes, mattresses, utensils, and school supplies for children in displaced families or direct cash transfers to affected people. It’s all in the spirit of harambee, the Kenyan philosophy of mutual and communal aid.

Stuck with a ‘lazy’ government, Mathare is reclaiming the spirit of harambee

Harambee, the Kenyan philosophy of mutual and communal aid, has given residents a lifeline.

Almost finishing my thesis and I can say I am 98% an afro pessimist now. The ability of Africans to perpetuate the same cycles of oppression is beyond comprehension and truly maddening. Exactly why I believe few are actually mad at corruption; instead of not benefiting from the corruption.

this is great. i'll also share this from James Baldwin (1963)