Tito Kingsley Ampiah

A US delegation member poisoned a Nigerian president elect. A Nigerian businessman won the presidential election by the largest margin in the country’s history in 1993. The military annulled the results and threw him in prison. He spent 4 years in a cell refusing to renounce his mandate. On July 7 1998 the military announced he would be released that same day. A senior US diplomat arrived to meet him at 3pm. She poured him a cup of tea. He started coughing. Collapsed to the floor. Was dead by 3:40pm. The policeman whose job was to taste every drink before it reached the prisoner said he was sent out of the room before the tea was served. It was the first time in two years a foreigner had given him food or drink without it being tasted first. Official cause of death: heart failure. No charges. No investigation. No answers. The diplomat who poured the tea later became National Security Adviser to Barack Obama. 💀🇳🇬

🚨BREAKING NEWS "Countries imposing price caps will not be supplied with oil" 🇷🇺 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko: “Energy markets are currently experiencing significant volatility. Energy shortages and rising prices are occurring. However, the Japanese government remains committed to imposing a price cap on Russian oil. This is an anti-market measure that disrupts supply chains. As has been stated repeatedly before, Russia will not supply oil to countries supporting this provocative measure.”

So the latest genius theory is: U.S. Marines will do a quick commando raid and pick up enriched uranium from Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant. Of course. Because if Americans know where the uranium is, Iran must have thoughtfully left it there, nicely packed, clearly labeled, ready for pickup. This isn’t a video game. But the level of analysis certainly is.

JUST IN: 🇮🇹🇺🇸 Italy blocks US military plane from landing in the country.

The West better not talk about human rights and international law ever again.

Barely three weeks ago, I published the following piece in French and spoke about how African governments gaslight their youth , promising them that education is the path out of poverty, then creating no job opportunities, and telling them their failure is a result of their laziness. And today, I stumble on this comment made by Ghanaian MP. Here’s the translated article: Growing up in most of our African countries, fundamentally impoverished, means hearing one simple message: to live with dignity and escape poverty, the clear path is education. Not just any type of education: the academic one. Parents invest everything they have: time, money, hope, into their children’s schooling, convinced that it is the key to freedom and the way out of misery. They sacrifice themselves, pay for private lessons, hire tutors, sometimes at the cost of their own survival, stretching every resource, in the hope that one day this investment will bear fruit. The promise made to the youths is simple: work hard, focus on your studies, and the world will open up to you. But the world, in these countries, is not built to receive these efforts. Schools are often broken, incapable of functioning properly. Teachers go on strike for lack of pay. Infrastructure crumbles. After years of effort, the child, now an adult, emerges with a diploma in hand. And then comes the brutal reckoning: no jobs. The market is saturated and these young people sometimes find themselves learning a trade, work once reserved for those who had “failed” at school. The skills once deemed inferior become their only refuge. This is where the psychological manipulation begins, what is known in English as gaslighting. The system has betrayed them, because the state failed to create the necessary opportunities. It now seeks to make them believe that their failure is personal. They are told, repeatedly, that it is not the government’s job to employ them, that their difficulty finding work is the result of their laziness, lack of creativity and that true success lies in entrepreneurship: they must “create their own opportunities.” Entrepreneurship, presented as emancipatory, is often nothing but a veil. It conceals a structural failure and transfers the weight of the system’s collapse onto the shoulders of young people who were promised the world if they followed the rules. The narrative is so skillfully crafted that it sounds like wisdom. It urges them to work hard, be self-reliant, take charge of their own lives. But behind this illusion lies a cruelty that dares not speak its name. The failure is not theirs alone; it belongs equally to the society and to the state itself. We live in a world where injustice hides behind the language of personal development. To survive, young people must carry the weight of a state that cannot or will not support them. Many do so, in silence, believing they have failed when in fact they have simply been betrayed. The bankruptcy of the state and the betrayal of trust can no longer remain invisible. We must fight for a society where education is not a gamble on hope but a genuine bridge to opportunity, where governments build real pathways for their citizens to prosper, and where young people are no longer blamed for a system that crushes them. One that was never designed to ensure their flourishing. Farida Bemba Nabourema, A Disillusioned African Citizen!

Hezbollah is confronting Israeli soldiers. Iran is confronting American soldiers. And we're not confronting anyone... Our situation is truly sad . We'd accept anything, even British soldiers. Give us anything.

"American imperialism will never be able to crush the dignity of the Cuban people." -Fidel Castro 🇨🇺

@Farida_N Ghana already has French as subject in our curriculum from primary and its optional and stand alone subject in secondary and tertiary schools. We are surrounded by francophone countries. However, it has not been a successful project so far to get Ghanaians fluent in it.

Do you know that French-speaking countries in Africa take $500 million in loans every year just to buy school books from France? Not laboratories, not research centers, not teachers’ training: poor quality school books filled with caricatured faces of Africans and racial slurs. Borrowed money, disbursed directly to French publishing houses, in exchange for textbooks written in Paris, printed in Paris, and shipped to African children who will spend their entire education believing this is normal. According to French state media @lemondefr in an article published 12 years ago, the same French parent company, Hatier and its subsidiary Hachette, controls roughly 95% of the school manual market across “Francophone” Africa. And how do we fund such purchases annually through loans from the World Bank. And again, am not making up. It is clearly explained in the article published by Le Monde. Our nations do not even touch the money. The $500 million are disbursed directly as loans from the World Bank on behalf of our countries to the French publishing company annually to produce and print in France poorly written, racist school books that are shipped to our countries. We are the only enslaved people on the planet that take loans with interests to subsidize our own enslavement. I am telling Angola this because Angola just made French compulsory in its primary schools from age ten. And I want to be precise about what it has joined, because imprecision is exactly what keeps these arrangements alive. Two years ago, Macron stood in front of cameras and presented a government memo laying out exactly how Paris intended to arrest its accelerating loss of influence across Africa. The remedy prescribed was linguistic and cultural penetration of non-Francophone countries. Angola and Ghana were designated priority targets. João Lourenço and Nana Akufo-Addo were identified as men whose cooperation could be secured. France came bearing curricula, resources, and a check. Both men apparently found the terms reasonable although may be luckily for Ghana, it is yet to be deployed. Here is what is worth understanding about that check: France is not being generous. France is being desperate. The survival of French hegemony depends, structurally and existentially, on maintaining influence in Africa. 70% of all French speakers on earth live on this continent, concentrated in some of the poorest countries in the planet. Without Africa, the “Francophone world” is a provincial club with a prestigious accent and a shrinking membership. France does not “invest” in African language education because it loves Africa. It does so because without Africa, France is a medium-sized European country with a permanent UN Security Council seat it would struggle to justify. And Angola, a country whose economy is now robust enough that Portuguese nationals emigrate there looking for work, decided that the gift it would give its ten-year-old children is access to a linguistic corridor that covers less than 8% of global scholarship and connects them to none of their SADC neighbors. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania: all English-speaking. The pragmatic choice, setting aside entirely the more principled argument for an African language, was obvious. The saddest part is not that France keeps trying. France’s self-interest is consistent and entirely predictable. The saddest part is that some of our leaders keep making it so effortless for Paris to buy our dignity.

People who live in another country are represented by their Embassies. Zambians abroad are represented by the Zambian Embassy. It’s the sole legal and only entity. You can’t go into another country across borders, disregard Embassy rules & install a king to represent you !!

@joseph_kalimbwe They did same in Ghana and we used diplomacy to solve it, so they assumed everyone would tolerate their illiteracy

Reading online that the Nigerian Community living in South Africa wants to install their own king in SA. Now SAns are up & burning cars of Foreign Nationals. Can’t Nigerians read the room and see SAns don’t like certain things being done in their country. It’s unbelievable !!

Lmao there are billionaires poisoning every facet of our society and making everyone miserable and starting insane wars and incinerating the biosphere and there are people trying to tell me I should be angry at Muslims.

A look at the academic level and backgrounds of some Iranian officials. Now compare it with the leadership of USA.

Slavery was legal. People who freed slaves were criminals. Segregation was legal. People who stood up for equality were criminals. I heard this story once about a teacher who took a fish out of its bowl and left a classroom of children as it flopped around.. telling them that if anyone left their seat, they would be expelled. All of the children sat and watched as this fish flopped gasping for air, not wanting to get up in order to avoid getting in trouble. Finally, a girl sprang up from her seat and ran to the fish, placing it back in the bowl. Ultimately, she was the only one who refused to watch the fish die. When the teacher returned he told the class that this was a lesson. That the fear of getting in trouble should never stop you from doing what's right. That sometimes.. you may have to oppose authority and group think, simply because it's the right thing to do. Never use legality as a guide to morality.

If Kash Patel isn't gone tomorrow Trump is a co-conspirateur in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Unpopular Opinion: Iran must bring the global economy to its knees. By doing so without being destroyed, Iran ensures that the next time some random country tries to bring them to their knees (no names mentioned), every other country in the world will say "Stop! The last time you did that we all suffered badly. We won't tolerate that again." For Iran, it is a win for the long term, not just today.

Iran has won the truth battle. Everybody sees through Israeli mainstream media propaganda. Real Americans have ZERO reason to be against Iran.

Assuming it is true, Trump is ready to end the Iran War without reopening the Strait of Hormuz. If so that is an admittance of defeat. However it is just as likely to mean a ground invasion is imminent. Impossible to believe a word that comes out of his mouth, never mind third party reports of such words.