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George Weah used to use own personal money to pay for the Liberia national team to practice, attend international games,...
03/07/2025

George Weah used to use own personal money to pay for the Liberia national team to practice, attend international games, and buy their national kit. At one point he was also a player manager.

The Short Story ⚖️
02/07/2025

The Short Story ⚖️

02/07/2025

Africans need to understand that intellectual property (IP) is worth more than minerals in the ground. Mine @ the cost of your country’s future. My opinion.

Africans. This is the future.
02/07/2025

Africans. This is the future.

How well can you write in your African language? Try to translate these nouns. Here are 50 important nouns in English li...
02/07/2025

How well can you write in your African language? Try to translate these nouns.

Here are 50 important nouns in English listed alphabetically, along with their Yoruba translations:

1. Airplane - ọkọ ofurufu
2. Animal - ẹranko
3. Book - iwe
4. Car - okọ̀
5. Chair - ijoko
6. Child - ọmọ
7. City - ilu
8. Computer - kọ́mpútà
9. Country - orílẹ̀-èdè
10. Dog - ajá
11. Earth - ayé
12. Family - ẹbí or ìdílé
13. Food - ounjẹ
14. Friend - ọ̀rẹ́
15. Fruit - eso
16. House - ilé
17. Idea - èrò
18. Job - iṣẹ́
19. Language - èdè
20. Money - owó
21. Moon - oòrùn
22. Morning - àárọ̀ or òwúrọ
23. Mountain - òkè, òkè ńlá, or orí òkè,
24. Music - orin
25. Name - orúkọ
26. Nature - ẹda or ayanmọ
27. Night - alẹ́ or òru
28. Ocean - okun or okun kariaye
29. Person - ẹni, or ènìyàn
30. Plant - ewé
31. River - odò
32. School - ilé-ìwé
33. Sea - odo nla, or omi
34. Sky - ọ̀run or ofurufu
35. Song - orin
36. Sun - oòrùn
37. Time - akoko
38. Tree - igi
39. Vehicle - ọkọ̀
40. Village - abúlé
41. Water - omi
42. Week - ọsẹ̀
43. Wind - afẹ́fẹ́ẹ́
44. World - ayé
45. Year - ọdún
46. Youth - ọmọdé
47. Zoo - ọgba ẹranko, Ile ifihan oniruuru ẹranko, ifihan oniruuru ẹranko, ifihan oniruuru, OR oniruuru ẹranko
48. Abundance - ọpọlọpọ
49. Unity - ìsọkan
50. Love - ifẹ́

Yoruba is a tonal language, and the correct pronunciation of the words requires the use of tone marks.

Good news. 🗞️
02/07/2025

Good news. 🗞️

Holyfield won against this 7-foot tall WBA Heavyweight champion
01/07/2025

Holyfield won against this 7-foot tall WBA Heavyweight champion

Mali scored a success against terrorists. But it poses a question; how did these people get all these weapons?
01/07/2025

Mali scored a success against terrorists. But it poses a question; how did these people get all these weapons?

I call this play “THE BREAKUP OF ELUMP”Theme – Political Comedy 🤡 ACT I – THE SCENE 🎬It was the best of times, it was th...
01/07/2025

I call this play “THE BREAKUP OF ELUMP”

Theme – Political Comedy 🤡

ACT I – THE SCENE 🎬

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The air crackled with the electric promise of fortunes made overnight and truths exposed at dawn. On the glitzy stage of American politics, billionaire titans and reality TV kings alike jostled for power beneath chandeliers of pixelated starlight.

Yet amid the chaos, one colossal name—ELON MUSK—loomed large, a cosmic body hurtling through the galaxy of influence, trailing hashtags like stardust 🌌.



ACT II – THE CHARACTERS 🎭

Enter Elon Musk, a man whose net worth surpassed the GDP of entire nations 🌍. Once revered as the Iron Man of innovation, he flung rockets at Mars, built electric chariots, and whispered visions of tunnels beneath the earth.

But power breeds hubris. Flush with greenbacks, Elon wired $288 million into the war chest of one Donald J. Trump, convinced this princely sum crowned him emperor of policy. In his mind, money didn’t just talk—it dictated the script, wrote the credits, and directed the sequel 🎥.

Opposite him, the orange-hued titan himself, Donald Trump, a man with hair as improbable as his political resurrection 🦅. A carnival barker turned Commander-in-Chief, Trump accepted Elon’s largesse with a grin, all while plotting his own lines, for no one steals the spotlight from The Donald.



ACT III – THE PROBLEM 🧮

Alas, fortune’s tide turned bitter. For though Musk was a maestro of markets, he proved an awkward understudy in the theater of politics 🎭.

Accustomed to boardrooms where every nod was a chorus of agreement, Elon arrived in D.C. expecting the same obedience. But politics is no product launch. Senators balked, aides rolled their eyes, and cabinet members whispered, “He’s trying to run the country like a company.”

Elon couldn’t help himself. He barged into White House meetings brandishing PowerPoint decks about Twitter engagement and hyperloops beneath Pennsylvania Avenue. He corrected generals mid-sentence. He offered “optimization protocols” for NATO 🛡️. He demanded “equity grants” for cabinet secretaries.

And worst of all, he kept muttering, “I’m used to being a shareholder, not an employee.”

To Trump’s ears, those words were a sin of cosmic proportions. For in Trump’s universe, there is only one shareholder—the man in the mirror.



ACT IV – THE SOLUTION 💡

Trump, ever the showman, understood that every saga needs a ratings spike. The audience demanded drama.

So one chilly November morning, amid swirling rumors and tanking poll numbers, Trump summoned Elon into the Oval Office. The carpets smelled faintly of tanning lotion and KFC grease 🍗.

Trump leaned across the Resolute Desk, squinting as though deciphering alien code.

“Elon,” he rasped, “You’re a tremendous guy. Really tremendous. But you’re a pain in my… beautiful behind.”

Elon blinked. “But I gave you $288 million.”

Trump waved him off. “Contracts expire. Like reality shows. You’re fired.”

Thus, without fanfare, Trump declined to renew Elon’s contract at the Department of Government Efficiency—or as Elon had dubbed it, “DOGE” 🐶.



ACT V – PLOT TWIST ⚡

If Trump believed Elon would go quietly into that dark Silicon Valley night, he sorely underestimated the world’s most Twitter-addicted billionaire.

Within hours, Elon launched a digital blitzkrieg. Threads unfurled faster than Starlink satellites deploying above Kazakhstan.

“Trump is a chaos monkey with hair!” Elon probably wanted to tweet, igniting a meme war that scorched every platform from X to TikTok.

That wasn’t controversial enough for Elon. Instead, he claimed Trump was in the Epstein Files.

“He has the emotional maturity of a Vine star.”

“My rockets have better launch success than his policies.” 🚀

The tweets were savage. The engagement metrics? Stratospheric. Hashtags like and trended globally.

Trump, seething, stomped around Mar-a-Lago hurling ketchup at the curtains.

“No one talks about me like that, especially not a nerd!” he screamed.



ACT VI – THE FINALE 💥

The final curtain fell with a twist worthy of a Rian Johnson whodunnit 🔪.

In an unscheduled prime-time address, President Trump stood flanked by Secret Service agents and an enormous American flag. His voice carried the solemn weight of a man about to drop the biggest ratings bombshell of the season.

“Tonight, I’m announcing that Elon Musk, who has said very mean things about me—very mean—is being deported.”

A reporter gasped. “But… deported where?”

Trump shrugged. “Mars. Or Canada. Whichever comes first. Very beautiful places. Not here.”

Elon, watching live, screamed into his phone. He furiously texted his lawyers, only to discover the Department of Homeland Security was already at Tesla HQ, gently packing his chainsaw into cardboard boxes labeled “FOR SPACE.”

A single tear traced down Elon’s cheek. He whispered, “At least on Mars, nobody calls me an employee…” 🪐



EPILOGUE – THE AFTERMATH 🔍

In the days that followed, memes flourished like mushrooms after rain. The world reeled from the tragicomic spectacle.

Elon’s companies dipped, then soared, then dipped again—because markets, like love affairs, thrive on chaos.

Trump’s approval rating momentarily spiked among voters who’d always suspected billionaires were just fancy immigrants anyway.

Historians would one day call it “The Great Breakup of Elump,” a collision of ego and empire, a testament to the eternal law: In America, politics may be theater—but the richest man still doesn’t get to write the script alone.



THE END

The mudslinging continues
01/07/2025

The mudslinging continues

Why Doesn’t the African Union (AU) Resolve More Conflicts?In response to the USA brokering a peace deal ☮️ between the D...
01/07/2025

Why Doesn’t the African Union (AU) Resolve More Conflicts?

In response to the USA brokering a peace deal ☮️ between the DRC and Rwanda 🇷🇼.

Let’s get one thing straight: you can’t discuss why the African Union doesn’t “fix” every conflict without confronting an inconvenient truth—some of the messes it’s trying to clean up were stirred by outside spoons. 🍵

Consider the Congo. The very “CIA.gov” archives and the U.S. State Department’s own Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) records admit it outright: the U.S. ran a covert operation in the Congo from 1960 to 1968. It wasn’t just dropping cash here and there—it was an $11.7 million covert orchestra conducting coups, assassinations, propaganda, and paramilitary action. 🎻
▪️ The CIA funneled money to politicians like Mobutu to undercut Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba—whom Washington labeled a pro-Communist radical.
▪️ In August 1960, President Eisenhower’s administration greenlit discussions about assassinating Lumumba. Biological agents were literally packed into suitcases, flown to Leopoldville, and kept ready in case the opportunity arose.
▪️ After Lumumba’s eventual capture and murder by Congolese rivals and Belgian officers in January 1961, the U.S. continued covert support: training air forces, funding tribal militias, operating clandestine naval units on Lake Tanganyika, and manipulating elections to ensure pro-Western outcomes.

These weren’t minor interventions. They shaped the very governments and armies that later crumbled into chaos, giving rise to conflicts the AU inherited decades later. When people demand, “Why isn’t the AU fixing Congo?” they forget who broke it.

And the Congo is just one example. Similar patterns played out across the continent—from the Angolan Civil War to meddling in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan.



The AU’s Paradox: Power vs. Trust

Now, shift the lens to African agency. The African Union isn’t a coercive empire—it’s a union of sovereign states. And therein lies its paradox.

Peacekeeping sometimes demands force. Guns, soldiers, logistical muscle. Yet if the AU were to create a powerful standing army, many Africans would worry it might become a puppet for foreign agendas—Western, Eastern, or even internal elite interests. Any unpopular AU military action could quickly be branded as betrayal of sovereignty. 🤔

On the flip side, when the AU sticks to mediation, diplomacy, and polite communiqués, it’s slammed as toothless—a paper tiger unable to prevent wars, coups, or atrocities.

This leaves the AU trapped between accusations of impotence and fears of authoritarian overreach.



The Real Constraints: Cash, Consent, and Coordination

Beyond politics, the AU faces severe structural limits:
▪️ Funding. Peacekeeping missions are expensive. Armored vehicles, air support, troop salaries, and logistics cost millions—money African nations often can’t spare, especially given economic crises, debt burdens, and competing social needs.
▪️ Logistics. Africa’s sheer size and rugged terrain make rapid deployment difficult. Moving forces across thousands of miles of poor roads or conflict zones is a logistical nightmare.
▪️ National sovereignty. Member states are protective of their autonomy. Many are reluctant to grant the AU the sweeping powers needed for robust interventions.
▪️ External dependencies. The AU frequently relies on donors (e.g. the EU, UN, or the USA) for peacekeeping funds. That raises legitimate fears that African priorities could be skewed to match donor interests rather than local realities.

It’s a fragile balancing act: build institutions strong enough to stop wars—but not so strong they threaten self-determination.



AU Achievements: Not “Doing Nothing”

Despite these obstacles, the AU—and its predecessor, the OAU—has resolved conflicts. The notion that the AU sits idle is simply false.

Consider just a few examples:

Under the OAU (1963–2002):
▪️ Mediating the Algerian-Moroccan Sand War (1963–1964)
▪️ Intervention efforts in the Congo Crisis of the 1960s and 1970s—while the CIA funded coups and propaganda behind the scenes
▪️ Diplomacy in the Biafran War (1967–1970)
▪️ Supporting anti-apartheid movements in South Africa
▪️ Mediation in the Sudanese North-South conflict leading into the 2000s

Under the AU (2002–present):
▪️ AMISOM in Somalia—one of the largest AU peacekeeping operations ever
▪️ Mediation leading to Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement
▪️ Ceasefire efforts and monitoring in South Sudan’s civil war
▪️ Diplomatic interventions in Mali, Libya, Central African Republic, Madagascar, and Lesotho
▪️ Recent mediation in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict
▪️ Engagement in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado insurgency
▪️ Involvement in Burkina Faso’s coups and Chad’s political transitions

These interventions have not always been perfect—or permanent. But they demonstrate that the AU isn’t merely a talk shop.



The Big Question

So the real issue isn’t whether the AU “wants” to resolve conflicts. It’s whether it can acquire:

✅ Legitimate authority accepted across diverse African publics

✅ Independent funding that shields it from external manipulation

✅ Rapid deployment capability to back diplomacy with real muscle

Until that delicate trifecta is achieved, the AU remains perched on a tightrope—criticized as weak if it does nothing, feared as authoritarian if it tries to do more.

Meanwhile, let’s remember: many of Africa’s current crises were seeded by decades of covert operations, Cold War chess matches, and foreign meddling. Asking the AU to resolve these overnight, without the resources or freedom to act fully, is like asking a man to mop up a flood while someone else keeps turning on the tap. 💧



Verdict?

The African Union’s mission is a high-wire act in a storm. But it’s not absent. It’s evolving. And history shows that with the right support—and genuine respect for African agency—it can, and does, make a difference.

🎖️ If medals for bravery came in platinum, Corion Evans would be first in line to collect one. At the tender age of just...
01/07/2025

🎖️ If medals for bravery came in platinum, Corion Evans would be first in line to collect one. At the tender age of just sixteen, this young hero showed the kind of courage most folks twice his age might only dream about. Not all heroes wear capes.

Picture it: a quiet evening turned chaotic when a car carrying three girls accidentally plunged into a river, swallowed by dark waters and panic. 🌊 Without a second’s hesitation, Corion dove in, cutting through the current with a determination sharper than any blade.

Stroke after powerful stroke, he reached the sinking car and rescued all three girls, one by one, pulling them to safety like a real-life superhero. As if that wasn’t enough, he then turned around and helped a police officer who was struggling to stay afloat during the rescue effort. That’s four lives saved by a teenager who flat-out refused to stand on the sidelines.

One of the girls, her voice trembling with emotion, later said, “He saved my life right before my last breath.” We pray that life treats him well.

💪 Talk about incredible bravery, strength, and calm under crushing pressure! Corion Evans is proof that courage isn’t measured by age or size but by the heart beating inside your chest. The world desperately needs more people like Corion, willing to leap into the unknown to save others. Not all heroes wear capes — some wear the quiet confidence of those who know they did the right thing.

Corion, we see you. And we salute you.

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