former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." Sound familiar?

Were homo erectus a pastoral species that owned cows now?😂 People say anything to feel good about themselves.

Indigenous is an annoying term that came with the invention of the nation state. I find it to be problematic

The game development industry got too comfortable & it shows in their products

This is actually a great pitch for Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity

People should start reading primary sources again.

Only other guy who had this good an understanding of the continent na its many players was Nyerere. Quite impressive

This is an expression of quite a widely-held pre-industrial view that trading was to be stigmatised. In the traditional agrarian imagination, traders were parasitic middlemen. They didn't create wealth, nor were they interested in honourably taking it by the sword.

I cannot stand “based” ragebait. Calling people slurs, provoking them for content, and acting antisocial in public isn’t cool or based. I want to live in an orderly society actually, and these kind of childish eruptions don’t become less annoying just because you’re right wing.

OpenAI's strategy in Kenya: > Extract your data > Pay you $2/hr to label it > Fly in for a photo-op with your government > Sell it back to you as a subscription > You pay them 20$+ per month instead of investing into African solutions to help Africa grow!

The old money black families of America fascinate me.

My people have stories of trading with people from the stars in floating objects known as ireri. As recent as the 1900s

I’ll be 64 next month and I remember well that electricity was supposed to be too cheap to meter long before now. Limitless fusion power was just 20 years in the future, and if you suggested that there wouldn’t be cities on the Moon by 1999 most people would have dismissed you as

i miss the golden age of DVD where every menu would be like this

Do Africans have organized crime syndicates? If so, would these mobs be based around country of origin or tribe?

It was not achieved because of Pan-Europeanism 😂 They literally fought each other in world wars

democratizing luxury products.. I feel like I've ranted about this before

If you listen to Museveni's speech you can clearly tell that Africa's underdevelopment is systematic and intentional. How does a nation industrialize without enough energy?

Good question