Divine 👨‍💻

“there is beauty in the courage of the fragile fighter. those that persevere, despite all they’ve been through, those who still believe there is good in the world, as dark things we often find we need that light the most.”

Kwame Nkrumah wrote a book called Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism in 1965. In it he argued that formal independence without economic independence was not real independence. That the control of a country's resources by foreign capital, even without colonial administration, was a form of continued domination. The United States State Department sent a formal protest to the Ghanaian government about the book. A formal diplomatic protest. About a book. The following year, while Nkrumah was on an airplane to Hanoi, the Ghanaian military staged a coup. The CIA's involvement is documented. The book was published in 1965. The coup was in 1966. The Americans protested the book in 1965. He was overthrown in 1966. The sequence is not subtle. The idea that neo-colonialism existed was itself enough to trigger the mechanism. You did not have to be armed. You did not have to be Soviet-aligned. You did not have to be violent. You had to be right. Being right about how power worked was sufficient to activate the termination signal. The label would follow. The operation would follow the label. This is the system that the word "communist" built and maintained. It is still operational. The word changes. The sequence is the same.

I’m not among Wai

The clouds you see above Nigeria are made from cocaine dust

This is a great question, and I am glad someone asked. I recently did something for a big institution, and they promised a small honorarium, but in the end, it seemed they weren't going to pay me; they were shocked by my reaction. I went after them and got paid. They thought it was "too small" for me to worry about. Nah!! Bring the money. I have relatives who depend on me to stay alive. Every cent and dollar matters. This is the thing nobody will tell you. The richest people are not those who flash what they have; they are those who make money every second. If I don't earn money each day, I get worried because I know my burn rate and what I need to spend. The easiest way to go broke is to keep spending money without making any money. Yes, I make money from the craziest things. I sold a domain this week that covered my outflows for next month. Long-term investments in equities and startups shouldn't be sold to survive; they should keep compounding. Also, learn to invest something EVERY SINGLE DAY!! No matter how small. Sam Ovraiti taught me this lesson, and his vulcanizer taught him, too. I have an article on it here - asemota.medium.com/republished-me… cc: @dannyzembe

i need to know your exact prayer word-for-word

ruth | compassion for the misery of another If you have no ruth, you are ruthless.

“The bottom line is laziness. People simply do not want to work.” —Ghanaian mechanics working in Johannesburg have pushed back against xenophobic claims that foreigners are taking jobs, arguing instead that many opportunities exist for those willing to learn skills and put in the work. They insist they are ready to train others, but say unwillingness to work remains the bigger challenge. [🎥:streetbarrister]

The taste of freedom after a long term relationship hits like crack 😭😭😭😭

Writing about a case from 40 years ago on THE SAME WEEK that the film he is an exec on about his brother and starring his son is opening to gigantic success? WE SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING. Absolutely shameless, disgraceful behaviour.

“I have been in classified briefings, and I'm telling you, don't be on the train using your AirPods and thinking somebody can't listen to your conversation.” bc Kamala Harris told us they’re spying on us 😭

why does every ISP tech support rep have no idea how networks work.

LEBRON TO BRONNY. FATHER TO SON. BRON ASSIST ➡️ BRONNY REVERSE.

The longest 60 seconds of my entire life.

She was CIA, sent to spy on them because they were involved in sensitive projects. Then she fell in love with Leonard.

Twitter women dating logic “Treat me how a good husband should treat his wife but for me I’ll show you I’m wife material after you marry me”

I can’t believe he’s 25 years old. 25 YEARS OLD.

This is why I keep stressing that learning "small talk" is important. I got married that way.

“Yeah I’m getting really sick of working with this Kvaratskhelia lad, I’d much rather coach Alejandro Garnacho instead”

There are Ghanaian engineers at NASA. Ghanaian surgeons running hospital departments in London. Ghanaian economists at the IMF and World Bank, some of them administering the very programs that have failed their home country. Ghanaian mathematicians. Ghanaian architects. Ghanaian writers who have won international literary prizes. Ghanaian tech entrepreneurs building companies that work. When given access to resources, institutions, and an enabling environment, Ghanaians perform at the highest levels of every field. This is not an argument that individual talent solves structural problems. It is a refutation of the claim that the problem is the people. The problem is never the people. The people are everywhere. The talent is everywhere. The ambition is everywhere. The capacity is everywhere. What is not everywhere is the policy space, the institutional support, the geopolitical backing, the market access, and the freedom from externally imposed economic programs that systematically prevent the conversion of human capacity into collective industrial development. The difference between a Ghanaian running a department at a London hospital and Ghana having a functioning public health system is not the Ghanaian. It is everything around the Ghanaian.

she’s literally looked the same age my whole life lol