“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frederic Bastiat

Every day, Wanjiku buys a newspaper, looks at the front page, and discards it. One day, the vendor asks, "Why do you keep doing this?" She replies, "I'm looking for an obituary." He says, "But obituaries aren't on the front page!" She responds, "The one I'm waiting for will be."

We celebrate the advancement in our mobile money transactions but nobody ever looks at the costs. My bank deducts Ksh 12.8 to withdraw Ksh 1,000 to M-Pesa. M-Pesa deducts Ksh 13 for me to send to someone the same cash, and that person will be deducted Ksh 29 to withdraw.

People don't realize how insanely cool Lightning is.

Building offgrid energy in Africa isn't charity. Paired with bitcoin mining it's one of the best risk-adjusted opportunities in frontier markets today.

Always a good message for Indian media.

Someone said women trade like the British during colonialism.

I can mention a few things but witnessing this much violence and increased militarization in your formative years does something to your psyche.

my wife arguing with chatgpt for 8 messages //1

My grandpa used to say "Nintunda ente, kuhererra ente" (He is selling a cow to educate a cow) whenever we said something stupid. I now can relate...

bitcoin is cash

Our names are Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi, and this is our story. We will not be silenced. The days of silence are over!

AI + Bitcoin = Freedom? Let's try.

HRF calls on UN Special Procedures’ Special Rapporteur on torture Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture to probe Tanzania for cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment in response to the rapes suffered by prominent activists Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire in the dungeons of Samia Suluhu Hassan’s regime.

You raised $5M for a crypto payment startup “banking the unbanked.” But 2.7M+ Nigerians hold $198M in crypto, and still can’t use it to pay for ChatGPT. In Ghana, 65,000 users hold >$7M, but they can’t access Twitter Premium, Notion, or Udemy using crypto payments. This

me liking tweets that contradict each other because sometimes i see both points & two truths can co-exist

The idea that African nations can 'defeat' the World Bank through defiance is seductive but deeply flawed. True sovereignty isn’t about rejecting lenders; it’s about not needing them. Let’s unpack why this rhetoric fails the test of real economic independence. A 🧵 David Sejusa, Gen(rtd), DM.

Born in Rumbek, South Sudan 🇸🇸. Raised in Uganda 🇺🇬 since he was 2. Picked up interest in playing basketball after a boda boda man told him he was too tall for his age. Started playing at 14 & 4 years later, he is a top 10 NBA Draft 2025 pick. Wow! 🤯

Suffering from a minor doxxing issue. My toddler has learned my real name and has been using it in place of “Dad.”