Lord of Gifts

@euniceajim These numbers are depressing

What should an early stage founder pay themselves? I’ve seen the numbers on cap tables. Now I want to hear from actual founders. Nigerian founders especially. Pre-seed. Seed. What’s your number?

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Charles Onyango-Obbo: If Africa is to stop being looked down upon, the change will come when a national science foundation receives funding before MPs' Toyota Land Cruisers. It will come when a physics professor in Kampala earns more than a presidential advisor who has not read a research paper in thirty years. Until then, the moon will remain a taunt. The world will continue to look down and see a continent sitting on the most valuable launch site on the planet, using it for little more than cattle grazing and political rallies. zurl.co/k3wMu

My name is Abdul Wahab. I am pleading with my Football Twitter (FT) family and everyone on this app to please RT. I am on the verge of losing a life-changing opportunity simply because of where I come from, and I have worked too hard to bottle it now. I grew up in extreme poverty in a small village called Kwabenantene in the Ahafo Region. I am the very first person in my family and my entire village to ever get a university education. My path was never easy. To survive undergrad, I literally had to drop out of classes mid-semester, pack my bags, and go back home to do heavy construction work just to raise enough money to survive the next term. I was laying bricks to pay for my textbooks. Despite having zero financial safety net, I poured my blood and sweat into my studies and graduated with First-Class Honours in Economics, ranking in the top 1% of my entire cohort of 435 students. But I didn’t just want to succeed alone; I went back to my village, gathered the youth, and started teaching and mentoring them. Because of that work, two students from my locality have now successfully made it into university too. I want to lift my people up. All this hard work finally paid off: I just received admission into the highly prestigious, integrated Masters/Ph.D. Economics program at Goethe University Frankfurt (GSEFM) in Germany! My tuition is officially 100% waived. However, I am facing a massive roadblock. Because the program is so competitive, I wasn't put directly into the fully-funded Ph.D. cohort right away. Instead, I was admitted to the MSQ track for Year 1. I will take the exact same rigorous classes alongside the Ph.D. students, and if I pass my Year 1 qualifying exams, I transition directly into the fully-funded Ph.D. I know I will pass those exams. The academics don't scare me. The finances do. My only problem right now is getting funding to cover my Year 1 living expenses in Frankfurt. If I can just survive these first 12 months, the Ph.D. funding takes over and my future is secured. To my FT family: you guys know my grind and my loyalty. If I get this lifeline, I promise I will proudly represent FT in every academic hall, conference, and research room I ever step into. I just need a chance to be in the room. I cannot let a lack of living expenses kill a dream I built with my bare hands. If you know of any scholarships, foundations, philanthropists, or anyone who can sponsor a village boy for just one year, PLEASE tag them or reach out. Please RT this until it reaches the right timeline. Let’s make this happen! 🌍📚🙏🏾

What is “freedom” in your Ntu language and what is “prison”?

100+ Black people, including me, stood 7pm-6am at the Ukraine/Hungary border. We were blocked while fair skin passed. A soldier cocked his gun at me, threatening to shoot if I didn’t let a Moroccan girl pass because she was closer to white. I still have panic attacks from this.

There is no way you are going to go to the ministry and tell them you are raising $3M in venture funding and they don’t ask you to grease the wheel.

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers bbc.in/4clBYtC

War is tearing through Lebanon, but for tens of thousands of African domestic workers, escape is legally impossible under the Kafala system. Beirut-based activist Banchi Yimer, a former Ethiopian domestic worker, shares what abandonment looks like when a country is at war.

Two out of six people at dinner a few nights ago uploaded an image of the receipt to ChatGPT to calculate their share of the bill I find this lazy brain outsourcing more worrying long-term than most other uses of AI also one the answers was wrong

"We can't let Hollywood tell our stories. We've got to tell our own stories."

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

11.10hrs and counting... No water!!

Reminder! Day 3 still no water but the cut pipes are still flooding to the road @NWSCMD

@nwscug @NWSCMD Day 2 no water along Kalinabiri road Ntinda. Can't the road works and #nwsc coordinate and fix the cuts!!! Toll free helpline isn't accessible. #waterman send Help

@sejudav I don’t think UAE is leaving Yemen.

"United Arab Emirates has said it will withdraw its remaining forces from Yemen, after Saudi Arabia backed a demand from the Yemeni presidential council for them to leave within 24 hours. The Emirati announcement followed an air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition on what it said was a weapons shipment for UAE-backed separatist forces in the southern port of Mukalla." Now, Saudi Arabia manages to chase UAE forces from Yemen in just 24hours; yet all the countries of IGAD, EAC, even the 50++++ of AU can't force UAE to stop its ARMS shipments to Sudan and let Sudan BURN. Someone should recolonize this basketcase of a Continent! bbc.com/news/articles/….

@StateHouseUg Are these accurate? protectingthegains.com

"By June 2026, the size of the economy will be USD 68.4 billion by the foreign exchange rate method and USD 194.2 billion by the PPP method. The GDP per capita will be USD 1,399, meaning that Uganda is now firmly in the lower middle-income status and out of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) status. All this is compared to USD 3.92 billion by 1986. In other words, the economy has grown 17 times in size since 1986."-- President @KagutaMuseveni.

The Colonial agent(dog),Campaore doing his master's bid. Evidence pointed to French involvement in the assassination of Sankara and the Coup. French agents were present at the time in Ouagadougou and seen meeting Campaore's pple shortly before the assassination. France has since refused to declassify the intelligence and military documents relating to Sankara's death. A French member of parliament who demanded that France declassify the murder details also pointed to involvement of Ivory Coast. Now, the brainwashed African neo-colonial elites; what say you?!

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