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Dear Black Women/African Women, there’s no escaping this conversation. It must be had, no matter how hard push back.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Whenever I see Africans say "the solution to censorship is to just build our own platforms", I inwardly cry at the babyfaced naivety. It's as if they think that the reason nearly all major social media platforms are American is that Americans are better at coding or something.
For those who aren't aware, social media is not profitable. Building a social media app is not particularly difficult. You can literally use AI to reverse engineer existing ones and put one together in a few minutes. There is nothing technically difficult about building or operating a social media platform. Any random Andela intern can do it.
The real problem which NOBODY is close to solving is that even if you can get everybody to sign up and use your platform, the cost of keeping its server and personnel infrastructure running is prohibitively expensive, and the cost of gaining and retaining users through platform monetisation is also extremely expensive. Twitter for example, has literally never made money. Since genesis in 2006.
That's 20 years of this site running 24/7, 365 days a year with outages happening only a few times a year for a few minutes at a time. That's 20 unbroken years of spending huge sums of money on Data centers. High latency servers. Backups and redundancy. Security. Development. Moderation. Government relations. Marketing. Who do you think pays for all this? Jack Dorsey? Elon Musk? Generous VC investors who throw money into a pit for 20 straight years with no route to profitability and keep pouring money in?
The only entity in the capitalist world that spends vast amounts of money that way is the government. Only the government invests huge sums of money in things that have immense social or political power without having any direct way to meaningfully generate profit. From the perspective of the US government, it is a super deal because instead of spending hundreds of billions annually to monitor, surveil, and collect intelligence on the rest of the world, it can instead spend tens of billions annually to be the silent backer keeping these social media platforms running, and have the rest of the world voluntarily submit vast amounts of their personal data and political intelligence that it uses for its ends.
You're not on a social media site. You're on a US government intelligence gathering and data surveillance platform. That is what Twitter is. That is what Instagram is. That is what Facebook is. That is what YouTube, Snapchat, Threads etc are. And TikTok by the way, is the Chinese version of the exact same thing, which is why it was forced to sell its US branch to Larry Ellison, a CIA contractor.
So unless you have a government behind you that is willing to spend serious money and receive no profit as you vibe-code your latest attempt at an "African social media platform", allow me to inform you that you are generously wasting your bloody time. "Social media" is not a playground and "viral user signup" or "user network effect" is not a real thing. There are thousands, maybe millions of social media apps on various app stores. The reason why you have only heard of the American and Chinese ones is that those are the 2 countries whose governments have inexhaustible sums of money to funnel into digital surveillance disguised as "social media".
So before inviting me or The Spearhead to join your umpteenth attempt at an "African social media platform", please find a government that is willing to back you first.
If you don't have a government behind you like Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergei Brin do, please don't waste my time.
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At 6,000 RPM, the illustrated four-cylinder, four-stroke engine has 200 total firing events per second. Slow-motion sections reveal the mechanism; the 1-3-4-2 firing order is the example shown.
Needs more cats perhaps?
India 🇮🇳 is not for the weak!
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We neglected the skill of thatching, then started talking down on thatch. "That's a village house." "Build with zinc, be serious."
Now look at Tswalu, a lodge in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa. Guests land at an airstrip under a thatched roof terminal, and they pay R46,400 per person, per night to stay.
What's inside is simple: minimalist furniture, African baskets and art, outdoor showers, big open fireplaces. Only twenty guests at a time. It's the same kind of things we already have, done with care.
The roof isn't the only reason for the price. But foreigners are paying a fortune for what we were taught to be ashamed of.
Thatch was never the problem. Losing the skill was.
Kalahari Desert, South Africa · Lodge: Tswalu Kalahari (The Motse) · Photography: courtesy of Tswalu Kalahari · Article: Christina Ohly, Fathom, 2017
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You keep trying to explain empire to Americans like they are being tricked.
Like if you just show them enough evidence, they will finally break.
But what if the truth is simpler.
What if they saw enough already and decided they prefer being on the side that gets to drop the bombs.
What if all the "not in my name" signs are the minority and the silent majority is perfectly fine with the trade.
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Your tattoo isn’t just decorative ink: it’s a permanent trigger that keeps your immune system locked in a lifelong cycle of chronic inflammation.
As soon as the ink is injected into your skin, your body recognizes the pigment particles as foreign invaders. Immune cells called macrophages immediately swarm the area and attempt to swallow them up. But because they can’t actually break down the ink, the macrophages eventually die, releasing the pigment back into the surrounding tissue, only for a new wave of macrophages to arrive and repeat the process.
This endless cycle is what keeps the tattoo permanently visible, while also maintaining a state of ongoing, low-level inflammation in the skin.
Over time, some of these ink particles migrate through the lymphatic system and accumulate in the lymph nodes, placing constant stress on the body’s defense mechanisms. Emerging research suggests this internal ink buildup may interfere with normal immune function, potentially reducing the effectiveness of certain vaccines, including mRNA types. Additionally, many tattoo inks contain heavy metals like nickel and cobalt. Combined with the chronic inflammation, this has been linked to a modestly elevated risk of lymphoma and skin cancer.
While tattoos remain a powerful form of self-expression, they represent a complex, decades-long biological conflict between your immune system and foreign substances embedded in your skin.
[Nielsen, C., Jerkeman, M., & Jöud, A. S. (2024). Tattoos as a risk factor for systemic lymphoma: A population-based case-control study. eClinicalMedicine]
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TikTok has disappeared your favourite account.
But they can’t stop us.
Here’s what I want you to do. 👇
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MILLIONS IN CONSERVATION, BUT WHO GETS THE MONEY?
Millions in funds are raised around the world in the name of protecting the Amazon and its Indigenous communities. But who actually controls that money and how much reaches the actual people whose ancestral territories are allegedly being conserved?
In an interview with Sovereign Media's Ahmed Kaballo, Paz Panjobiteri, a representative of the Kichwa nationality of Pastaza, Ecuador, challenges the international conservation industry, accusing governments and major NGOs of using Indigenous peoples to attract funding, while denying them meaningful control over their resources.
Panjobiteri argues that despite the enormous sums raised for forest protection, Indigenous communities continue to face poverty, environmental degradation and the erosion of their territorial sovereignty.
She questions why international conservation funds are largely administered by governments and powerful NGOs acting as intermediaries, rather than directly empowering the communities that have protected these ecosystems for generations.
Her criticism exposes what she describes as the continuation of colonial power structures, where Indigenous lands and identities are used to secure financial resources, while decision-making authority remains concentrated in racist governments and outside institutions.
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Race-based IQ statistics is just white supremacists using the guise of science to advance racism.
~ Robert Sternberg
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Le 9 octobre 2026, l’Union européenne a renouvelé ses sanctions à mon encontre. En cause: ma lutte pour la souveraineté africaine et l’éveil des consciences à travers des analyses géopolitiques, des conférences, des articles et des vidéos... Mon influence, disent-ils.
Ces sanctions sont prise sous le régime des ”activités déstabilisatrices de la Russie.” Qu’est-ce que cela a à voir avec la Russie, mystère et boule de gomme!
Je suis Suissesse et Africaine, je ne vivais pas dans un État-membre de l’UE, je n’ai jamais eu aucun avoir dans l’UE, le gouvernement suisse n’a pas repris les sanctions de l’UE à mon endroit, et pourtant, voici un aperçu de ce que je subis depuis le 26 juin 2025, date des sanctions initiales.
•Comptes bancaires gelés en Suisse.
•Comptes bancaires fermés en Suisse.
•Avoirs volés par Bank Cler en Suisse.
•Toutes les cartes de crédit désactivées.
•Compte Paypal fermé et argent volé. •Compte Binance fermé, argent séquestré.
•Compte Kraken fermé, argent séquestré.
•Comptes bancaires fermés en Afrique.
•Compte Airbnb fermé.
•Compte Amazon fermé.
•Compte Netflix fermé.
•Compte Stripe fermé.
•Compte Ebay fermé.
•Compte Wise fermé.
•Compte Booking fermé.
•Compte Spotify fermé.
•Tout ce qui se paie par carte de crédit, terminé.
•Cagnotte GoFundMe, fermée.
•Monétisation Facebook, YouTube, X, supprimée.
•Interdiction de survol du territoire de l’UE: les sanctions m’ont trouvée à l’étranger, je n’ai plus jamais pu regagner mon domicile en Suisse, qui est enclavée dans l’UE. Mon premier petit-enfant est né cette année, je n’ai toujours pas pu le voir. Ma mère a fêté ses 80 ans, je n’ai pas pu être avec elle. Elle va être opérée l’an prochain, je ne serai pas là pour l’assister.
•Interdiction d’entrer et de transit dans le territoire de l’UE (on s’en fout, sauf pour ce qui concerne les territoires ultra marins).
•Interdiction de fournir/recevoir des services de citoyens membres de l’UE: vous n’avez pas le droit de m’offrir une glace, de me vendre un livre ou de me donner un pain au chocolat.
•Expedia m’a laissée acheter des billets d’avion pour des trajets en dehors de l’UE, puis a refusé de les émettre et n’a jamais remboursé l’argent.
•Impossibilité de payer mon loyer (les banques suisses, bien que ne faisant pas partie de l’UE, refusent d’accepter ou d’exécuter des paiements pour des factures à mon nom, même si elles sont réglées par des tiers).
•Impossibilité de payer mon assurance maladie.
•Impossibilité de continuer un traitement médical.
•Impossibilité de payer mes avocats.
La liste n’est pas exhaustive.
Les ”nouveaux motifs” pour le renouvellement de mes sanctions sont:
•Le discours que j’ai prononcé au Sommet Russie-Afrique en 2019;
•Une vidéo sur l’opération Wuambushu à Mayotte datant de 2023;
•Ma nomination comme conseillère spéciale du président de la République du Niger, et le passeport diplomatique que j’ai reçu à cette occasion;
•Un tweet de 2025 dans lequel je critique l’Ukraine, ce pays voyou qui arme et entraîne les terroristes au Sahel, et torture ses propres citoyens comme on l’a vu récemment.
Et vous savez quoi?
Les sanctions sont administratives. Quand vous décidez d’exercer un recours devant le Tribubal de l’UE contre ces sanctions extrajudiciaires, cela prend plus d’un an avant d’aboutir à une audience.
Et quand, 2 à 3 mois après l’audience, le délibéré sort, même si le verdict est en votre faveur, cela n’a aucun impact, puisque l’UE a entre temps renouvelé vos sanctions dans un acte distinct, que vous devrez de nouveau attaquer…
Un châtiment à la Sisyphe.
Vive la démocratie et les valeurs européennes!
Ce que vous avez commencé, on va terminer.