⚡Kīmani Ngūgī⚡

Had a conversation with @JoabOgato of the Couch Connect Podcast. youtu.be/EwnC0LB8uwA?si…

My problem with Africans using Lee Kuan Yew as a stick to beat "African leaders" with is your lack of consistency. You hold him up as an example of a leader who did the things African leaders don't do, but you forget that to get Singapore to the point t he left it, he ran it as a laser-focused 1-party state with a ruthless focus on a single developmental strategy that nobody was allowed to oppose or deviate from. Thus, instead of spending decades on the unfinished capital projects, financial waste, and expensive political theatre that comes with PDP vs APC or NDC vs NPP partisan politics, the whole of Singapore was forced to focus on national development and nothing else. If you tried to oppose Lee's national development plan in the name of "opposition", the state security services would arrest and detain you without trial, or publicly flog you and make you denounce your opposition. When Kwame Nkrumah tried to institute something similar to make Ghana a laser-focused developmental state under his leadership - which was equal to or greater than Lee's - you bunch of idiots called him a despot and a dictator, and you collaborated with foreign governments to remove him in a coup, after which you came out into the streets of Accra jubilating and celebrating his downfall. And even up till now in 2026, after having 60 years to reflect on your history, you're still calling Kwame Nkrumah a "dictator" while simultaneously glazing Lee Kuan Yew, because you're hopelessly dumb. You claim to admire Lee's Singapore because it followed a western approved, capitalist development plan, unlike those dirty Communists in China and Vietnam - but you have no idea that Lee's Singapore might be capitalist in name, but runs one of the most aggressively socialist governments on earth, with birth-to-death subsidies, state programs, government housing, guaranteed employment etc. If someone in your African country runs for election using Singapore's welfare state model as their manifesto, you bunch of idiots will immediately start chorusing "Who will fund this?"and" The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people's money." If I point out that Singapore can afford to subsidise everything for its citizens because it is a 1 party state that does not exist perpetually 4 years away from new leadership that can rip everything up, which allows it to make investments and plan with 15, 25, and 40-year horizons, instead of planning for how to use the latest IMF loan to win the next election in 18 months, the same idiots will say that they prefer their APC/PDP, NDC/NPP quadriennial stalemate instead of actual national development because "multiparty electoral democracy is the gold standard for governance." You people have no idea what you want, and no idea how the world actually works. Everything inside your head is what some white dude dictated in there, because you were trained to receive instruction, not to think and create your own. That's why nobody takes you seriously.

@theokhumoitsile Indeed.

📍#MakingAfricaGreatAgain✊️

@eajene Africa is Being built by Africans. For Africa. 🌍

The most important shift in African investment isn't happening in New York, London, or Beijing. It's happening on the continent itself. For decades, African capital fled Africa. Wealthy individuals parked money in real estate in London or Dubai. Pension funds bought foreign government bonds. Sovereign wealth funds sat idle. That's changing — and @TheEconomist called it "probably the most crucial" reason to be optimistic about Africa's economic future in a pair of articles published last week. Here's what's happening on the ground: • In 2024, Africa's 500 largest firms recorded their highest-ever revenues in dollar terms. As these firms grow, they're reinvesting. • Nearly 50% of venture capital raised in Africa last year came from African investors — the highest share ever recorded. • The $1 trillion-plus sitting on the balance-sheets of African pension funds, insurance funds, and sovereign wealth funds is increasingly being redirected from government bills and bonds toward private equity and infrastructure. Just last year, for example, Ghana mandated 5% of its state pension fund go to private equity and venture capital. • The @Africa_Finance Corporation, the multilateral DFI built to bridge Africa’s infrastructure gap, increased its investments to $4.5B last year — roughly $2B more than its total in the previous two years. • And Africa's industrialist-in-chief @AlikoDangote — having reversed a decade of decline in the continent's oil refining capacity with a single Nigerian refinery — is now eyeing a $2.5B fertilizer project in Ethiopia, $1B in cement, power generation, and infrastructure deals in Zimbabwe, mining projects across Central Africa, and more. And when African capital leads, foreign capital follows. As Dangote said at an economic summit in Imo State, Nigeria, last year: “If we don’t invest at home, there is nobody on Earth who will come and invest here. What attracts foreign investors is the domestic investments, and that’s what we are doing." It reminds me of what Celtel founder & Sudan-born billionaire Mo Ibrahim said in a Bloomberg interview last year: "Africans must not fear Africa. We need to start investing in ourselves... African investors must invest more in our own continent." (linkedin.com/posts/afridige…) Slowly but surely, that's happening: Africans — across the continent and the diaspora — are beginning to bet on Africa at scale. -- Afridigest Intelligence — real intelligence to win in Africa's growth markets: afridigest.com/intelligence

@Taryl_Ogle Indeed! And we are Builders. Not Victims.

@InfiniteMansa Builders MUST build 🔥🔥

african founders don't get a tutorial. you figure it out mid-flight. broken rails, no safety net, investors who don't believe yet. and we still ship. drop a 🔥 if you're building anyway.

@Okiki_Olatunde1 @BoluwatifeAmod Facts

lol 😂 The 1.4 billion people doesn’t translate to market. That’s just mere population. Until we improve our GDP per Capita income, Stadard of living. It will always affect whatever we build in the tech industry. Besides, let’s stop these Western VC don’t like African builders narratives. They don’t owe us Capital, We have elites who don’t even know what to do with their money. Why aren’t we utilizing our diaspora power? A lot of questions needs to be asked. Africa should funds African builders.

A VC once told an African founder the market wasn’t big enough. The market has 1.4 billion people, I need someone to explain this to me.

@DefendersKE @LarryMadowo @EUinKenya @AmnestyKenya @SwedeninKE @DKambKenya @VOCALAfrica_ @HakiKNCHR @thekhrc @NorwayInKenya Congratulations @LarryMadowo

WINNER OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AWARD! Congratulations to @LarryMadowo for winning the human rights defenders award, an award recognizing Individuals or movements who, within the past year, have demonstrated outstanding courage in addressing and challenging current human rights issues. #HRDAwardsAt10 #MeettheHRDs #CourageHasAName

Everyone wants a piece of Africa right now. That's one clear takeaway from this article @TheEconomist published last week. 🇺🇸 America wants Africa's critical minerals — copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt — to loosen China's grip on global supply chains. It's using 'commercial diplomacy', government-backed funds, and even aid as leverage to secure access. The prize: $8.6 trillion in undeveloped mineral assets. 🇨🇳 China also wants Africa's minerals — and it wants its markets, too. Chinese firms bought rare-earths in Tanzania, copper in Botswana, gold in Congo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast — all in the last two years. But its firms are also buying farmland, building apartment blocks, and making other scale bets on the continent's rising consumer class. 🇪🇺 Europe wants Africa's energy. TotalEnergies resumed a $20B LNG project in Mozambique. And Eni announced two new African oil and gas discoveries in February. 🇸🇦 🇦🇪 🇶🇦 The Gulf wants Africa's food and logistics. Saudi Arabia's PIF paid $1.8B for a controlling stake in Olam Agri. Vision Invest paid $700M for a stake in Arise IIP, which runs industrial sites in over a dozen African countries. DP World took over the port of Dar es Salaam. And Qatar's state-owned airline Qatar Airways holds a 60% stake in Rwanda's $2B Bugesera International Airport. Engaging with Africa now means doing business, and this new commercial era requires commercial leverage. But that's something most African governments lack individually — at least compared to outside powers. It's an urgent reason to accelerate the pace of economic integration across the continent. The world is figuring out what Africa is worth. The question is whether the continent can negotiate accordingly. -- Afridigest Intelligence — real intelligence to win in Africa's growth markets: afridigest.com/intelligence

@KenyaRailways_ Laudable. Kijaniboda is there for you for last mile delivery.

Coming soon, parcel delivery by rail. We’re excited to introduce the Parcel Service, offering same-day delivery between Nairobi and Mombasa, fast, safe, and right on track. Stay tuned. #SendItByRail #ComingSoon

@DiMacharia_ 💯

Kenya could do well to become an 'electrostate' and not a 'petrolstate'.

There is an abundance of oil. There is an abundance of coal. There is an abundance of gas. There is an abundance of food. There is an abundance of water. Scarcity is being fabricated by psychopaths.

@hthieblot What is fear?

Founders who tweet into the void, rack up zero likes, and collect ‘NO’ after ‘NO’ all day… fear absolutely nothing. 💪

@BoluwatifeAmod You already know Bro

African startup media celebrates funding too much and celebrates retention too little, revenue is the real flex.

@wode_maya Blanket statement

The Disunity among black people is really insane 🥲

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@WilliamsRuto Solid.

Invest in Kenya; our clarion call to Investors

@DavidHundeyin China in Favor. ✅

By the way, if you're African and you're new to geopolitical awareness, you can use this picture as a guide to know who is on your side and who is your enemy in this world. Notice how China and Russia voted? Then notice how your oyibo faves voted (or abstained, which is also a type of vote)? Shebi "not everything is about race"? You see how white people ALWAYS instinctively bunch together, from Andorra to Norway, whenever it's time to do some racist shit? That's called Pan-Europeanism. The antidote is Pan-Africanism.