Enrico Pucci

@ginabalogna “European features” has to be the most low IQ cope of all time

there’s not a single european feature on this wоmаn’s face

This is the one. An apartment block in Africa, designed by an architect working in Africa, using Swahili moucharabiah screens that filter sunlight and pull sea breezes through every floor, built with coral stone, local timber lattices and terrazzo by artisans from Mombasa and Lamu. No imported facade system. No sealed glass curtain wall. A building that knows exactly where it is. Tudor Apartments. Tudor Creek, Mombasa, Kenya. Urko Sanchez Architects. 14 apartments. 2017. The moucharabiah screen wrapping the entire facade is not decorative. It is the climate system. It filters direct sunlight before it hits the glass, allows cross ventilation from the creek breezes through every apartment, and creates the kind of shaded interior environment that a sealed concrete box with air conditioning running twenty-four hours is trying and failing to replicate at three times the energy cost. The coral stone cladding, the hand-carved wooden lattices, the terrazzo floors were all executed on site by artisans from Mombasa and Lamu. This is an African building, on African land, built with African craft, solving an African climate problem. It exists. It is standing. And most of what goes up around it in Mombasa today looks nothing like it. We have the materials. We have the tradition. We have the artisans. What we keep choosing instead is the concrete box with the tiny windows. 📍 Tudor Apartments, Tudor Creek, Mombasa, Kenya Architect: Urko Sanchez Architects Photography: Javier Callejas More images in the comments.

@ItsEthanRay Me personally I would be thinking "nice, more space for my bag" instead of filming the seat.

They are human too. Good and bad people exist in every race and color. I can only imagine what he must be going through in his heart, thinking, Are we really such terrible human beings?😢😢😢

@dervishconan "I no black, I Ethiopian, I no black, I Somali, I no black I (insert ethnicity here)" Why does anyone give a fuck about this discourse? Let them be what they want to be

That’s true, Ethiopian people are not Africans or black.

@YoExFavoriteN__ The fuck does this have to do with us?

This is like heaven for a darkskin black man

People need to think more about the economics for their country, community, and ethnicity. I see FBA in the comments, I have no issues with Black Americans focusing on their own people as long as you are actually making a difference. But Pan-Africanism comes in when we reach outside of communities to other Black communities, whether this is Africans cooperating with Africans from different countries, or the diaspora interacting with Africa, or Black America interacting with Africans in their communities and Africa itself.

the whole “so much for pan-Africanism” when a diaspora fight breaks out does not move me, because even siblings fight. but they don’t stop being siblings. presence of conflict doesn’t change our common ties to the motherland, overlapping of cultural expressions, and DNA.

Let's look at this statement made by the former President of the Republic of Ghana. John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor: "Ghana was the first sub-Saharan nation to win its independence from a colonial power in 1957. Yet the average per capita income of my people is lower now than in the 1960s, four decades after independence. Some of the blame for this we Ghanaians must accept. My country must acknowledge that corruption has been a canker on our public and economic life and must be contained. One hundred years ago, our trading was limited to the supply of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa. One hundred years later, our trading consists of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa. I must admit that Ghana's path towards self-reliance has not been smooth. I am painfully aware that our past can be characterized by one step forward and two steps backward." In 1957, Ghana was the richest country in sub-Saharan Africa, with the same income per person as South Korea. Today South Korea is about 10x richer. That gap is the whole story of modern Ghana and still hasn't been overcome. In 2002, President Kufuor said something brutally honest: his people were poorer than they'd been in the 1960s, still exporting raw gold, timber and cocoa exactly as they had a century earlier, with corruption "a canker" on national life. "One step forward and two steps backward," he called it. 24 years later, what has changed? What Ghana fixed: Incomes are now well above both 2002 and the 1960s. It became an oil producer, crossed into middle-income status, and quietly remarkable in a coup-prone region, Ghana has turned into one of Africa's most stable democracies, with four peaceful transfers of power since 2000. What it didn't: Ghana still lives off raw commodities like gold, cocoa, and now oil, which is just a fourth raw export, not a step up the value chain. Corruption was never contained; Ghana actually ranked cleaner in 2002 than it does today. And the boom-bust never stopped. It won billions in debt relief in 2002 then defaulted again in 2022, returning to the IMF for the 17th time since independence. The cedi was the world's worst-performing currency in 2022 and the best in 2025. Some progress has been made, but the full potential capacity of Ghanaian economics is untapped.

I'm starting to read George B. N. Ayittey & I very much like what I'm reading already. Ayittey's cutlass. George B. N. Ayittey: "As an African, I know from historical experience that the West has committed atrocities and exploited my people. The West does not give a hoot about us (Africans) and the West is not alone. The Arabs don’t give a damn about Africans; neither do the French, the British, the Russians, Japanese, or Koreans. Certainly, the Chinese don’t come to Africa because they love black people. Every foreigner or entity who visits Africa comes to pursue their interests, not ours (Africans). As an African, I also have a leader who is supposed to pursue our interest. But he pursues only his own selfish interests and does not give a damn about me. He has oppressed me, brutalized me, beaten me, and stolen my money to accumulate a huge personal fortune in Swiss banks. After only four and a half years in power, the late, General Sani Abacha (“The Butcher of Abuja”) amassed a personal fortune worth more than $5 billion. General Ibrahim Babangida did better, accumulating more than $7 billion. He walks freely, thumbing his nose at the people. More than $400 billion in oil revenue has flowed into Nigerian government coffers since 1970. Nobody knows where that oil money is. Explain to me why Nigeria, an oil-producing country, has gasoline shortages and must import refined fuel. I also have a politician who is supposed to represent me. After I voted for him, his first act was to grant himself and fellow legislators hefty salary increases and allowances to furnish their offices and purchase cars. Remember Senator Chuba Okadigbo? “As Senate President, he controlled 24 official vehicles but ordered 8 more at a cost of $290,000. He was also found to have spent $225,000 on garden furniture for his government house, $340,000 on furniture for the house itself ($120,000 over the authorized budget); bought without authority a massive electricity generator whose price he had inflated to $135,000; and accepted a secret payment of $208,000 from public funds, whose purpose included the purchase of Christmas gifts” (New African, Sept 2000; p.9). I also know that as an African, we have very fine intellectuals and professionals but many of them act like intellectual prostitutes, selling off their conscience and integrity to serve the dictates of barbarous military regimes. In fact, according to Colonel Yohanna A. Madaki, when General Gowon drew up plans to return Nigeria to civil rule in 1970, “academicians began to present well researched papers pointing to the fact that military rule was the better preferred since the civilians had not learned any lessons sufficient enough to be entrusted with the governance of the country” (Post Express, Nov 12, 1998; p.5). Nigeria’s Senator Arthur Nzeribe once declared that General Babangida was good enough to rule Nigeria. When pressed, he confessed: “I was promised prime ministerial appointment. There is no living politician as hungry for power as I was who would not be seduced in the manner I was to invest in the ABN, with the possibility and promise of being Executive Prime Minister to a military president” (The Guardian, Nov 13, 1998; p.3). Now, let me ask a practical, not academic question: If I have a very sharp cutlass (machete) whom should I go after?"

BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran. Key terms include: 1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon 2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs 3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended 4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days 5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge 6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development 7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions 8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision 9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces 10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services 11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use 12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal 13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations 14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.

@shavnyuy I agree with this 100% and I think I should read George Ayittey

You are right that objective knowledge belongs to no one and should be learned wherever it originates. Nobody is arguing that Fayol’s management principles stop working because he was French. The argument is narrower than that: when African students study African problems using only foreign frameworks, and African thinkers who have already done the work of applying those frameworks to the African context are excluded from the curriculum entirely, that is not objectivity. That is a syllabus making a choice. George Ayittey and Dambisa Moyo are not alternatives to Western economics. They are economists who took that same body of knowledge and asked what it means here. That is exactly the internalisation you are describing. The problem is that our institutions are not teaching it.

I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus. Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same. Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading. This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it. We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.

Nah, her boyfriend was Asian not white (dunno what type of Asian though). But he seems fine with one-sided casual racism, lol. Typical happenings with 'minorities' in large groups of white people. This is just one of the reasons why mono-racial friend groups are very common amongst people with self-respect and who won't accept racism as a joke as opposed to having multi-racial friend groups.

Asian woman on Tik Tok exposes how racist her WH👱🏻TE boyfriend and his friends are from Arkansas and reveals some of the things they say about people of color behind their backs. Thoughts ⁉️👑

@NoGinNoJuice I hate coons more than racists

Niggerians are laughing at racist jokes from Argentinians because of a dwarf that doesn’t know them scored 3 fake goals

@ersqyytrr @AngloCatholica I'm well aware of all the copium

@ESTv36 @AngloCatholica You obviously aren't aware of DEI implementation in the youth teams and schools.

How as a Frenchman can you support this France football team? There’s literally only one French person playing. It’s Africa vs Africa. #FRASEN

Plenty of reasons. Darker skin in East Asia was looked down upon for generations, and that isn't considering the darkness of African skin but the tanness of peasant skin. So they'd think black skin is a level below that. Another reason is they think African countries are behind in development, not just economically but culturally.

Serious question….what have black peoples done to Chinese people that they despise black so badly? I mean we know the history behind white and black people but Chinese….why ?

@nonewthing England and Nigeria obviously don't train their players in the same manner or to the same level.

Why do “technical” passers emerge only among Black immigrant athletes but not among Black native athletes? Eze, Saka, Alaba, Iwobi — no native Nigerian equivalent for them.