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08/07/2023

Bul Kuol has resigned to Cairns Taipans in the NBL.

04/03/2023

Dear South Sudanese,

By Tearz Ayuen

If you have teenagers in Kenya, Nairobi in particular, watch them closely, for LGBTQ+ is the latest culture and it's taking over the country like a wildfire among the youth.

Scientists argue that being sexually or romantically attracted to one's gender is inborn. That means some are born like that. But it can be learnt or acquired too.

When I was growing up, wearing timberland boots, baggy jeans, baseball caps, and tracksuits was the coolest thing. We were cool kids. We were 'Yo-yos'.

Today, being a cool kid is associated with LGBTQ+. In my view, poverty has made some adapt by venturing into the "amok nyin" world.

And it's a lucrative business. If you think I am lying, show me a poor homo in Nairobi. Junubin who go clubbing can attest to that.

With the emergence of social media, such individuals are now role models. What do youth do with models? They adore them. Worship them. They do what they do.

And boom! A passive recruitment is taking place, arguably mainly at schools. I repeat: your heterosexual children are likely being recruited into LGBTQ+ culture. Watch your kids.

I thought I should tell you. Have a great weekend!

02/03/2023

The fight that separated the Anuak and Shilluk 🇸🇸

Nyikang Okwa the spiritual leader and founder of Shilluk Kingdom and his younger brother Gilo Okwa the founder of Anuak Kingdom where who were living peacefully after their migration until when they reached Bahr El Gazhal.

In the course Giloaccused his elder brother’s that his daughter swallowed the bead and demanded the stomach of the girl to be opened so that he could retrieve his bead. This was done and they found the bead.

Both settled the case by making an oath and decided to go separate ways retrating that they could not live in peace anymore, and each went separate ways. Nyikang went on to conquer large habitat in Upper Nile State, conquered Malakal from the Funj Sultanate after long wars and Established the Shilluk Kingdom.

Gilo Okwa went on to conquer large land in Upper Nile region around Akoba in Jonglei State extending up to Gambella.

Today, Shilluk live in Both banks of the Nile in Upper Nile State in the vicinity of Malakal with about 1.1 million population and Anuak lives in the other side of the Upper Nile region in Jonglei State upto Gambella About 400,000 population

Their huge similarities between the Shilluk and the Anuak language but due to interaction with many different communities slight changes happened in the language.

Source: Anuak Politics, Ecology and the origin of Shilluk Kinship by L. Lewis Wall

Source by Shilluk kingdom Daily

26/02/2023

25/02/2023

Himba girl 🇳🇦 Namibia

20/02/2023

20/02/2023

11 Leadership Lessons from" The Leader in you"-Dale Carnegie

1. Talk less, listen more.
People will pay attention to what you say, just because of your position. The leader’s job is to pay attention to what other people say, especially those who think their views don’t count. Show you’re listening by acting on what people tell you, and gain their trust by giving them the credit.

2. Don’t step in with solutions too quickly.
No-one learns anything new if you keep doing what you already know how to do, and don’t allow others to try. Anyway, they may find a different, or better way, and if not… mistakes are valuable too.

3. Be authentic.
Be authentic, passionate, even emotional, about what you believe in. Share your vision and live your values. The personal is more engaging, even inspiring, than the process.

4. Don’t ‘dis’ downwards.
Once a decision is made by the Board, or the leadership team, it’s yours even if you argued against it during discussions. Your job as leader is to get others to believe in, and work towards, a shared goal, not to divide opinion or loyalties.

5. I’m OK: You’re OK.
Start from the position that everyone is doing the best they can, then look for ways to support and encourage them – which is so much more rewarding than finding fault.

6. Don’t be the smartest person in the room.
Being a leader does not mean knowing more than anyone else. Recognise, encourage and promote others as experts. Give them the trust and autonomy to be creative and do excellent work, defined in their terms. You simply provide the direction, so that this excellent work contributes to a shared purpose.

7. Sense of purpose.
Your team know what they do and how to do it, but you can make a big difference by sharing a strong sense of why they’re doing it and where it’s heading. Help them develop a broad understanding of the team’s purpose, and faith in how their role contributes to the whole. (Remember the floor-sweeper at NASA?)

8. Being right isn’t enough.
A great idea is of no consequence unless you can convince others to believe it too, and then persuade them to help you make your idea a reality. The best way to do this is to make the idea theirs.

9. Focus on a few things.
Focusing on the things that really matter and where you can make a difference. There may be a hundred different distractions and demands on your time and a hundred ways you could respond, but it’s the dozen carefully chosen actions that deliver the results.

10. Get out and about.
Get out and about and in the work. It’s hard to retain that sense of what the job’s really about when you are sitting.

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20/02/2023

Top 100 lesson learned from book". 101 SIMPLE TRUTHS FOR A BETTER LIFE"

1. Be humble, you don't know everything.

2. Lift weights often.

3. Take walks in nature.

4. Seek discomfort often.

5. Think progress, not perfection.

6. Harness your ego

7. Don't sell out for a quick buck.

8. If you can do it now, don't wait until tomorrow.

9. Do deep work daily.

10. Only expend energy on the controllable.

11. Laugh at yourself. Chill.

12. Stop doing things you don't like.

13. “Whenever you are offended, understand that you are complicit in taking offense.” — Epictetus

14. Find a hobby that has no financial goal.

15. Limit your inner circle.

16. Train yourself to view obstacles as opportunities.

17. Don't talk about what you're going to do. Talk about what you did.

18. Read books to learn, not to brag you read books.

19. Do something hard every day.

20. People are not worried about you, they're worried about themself. Take solace in that.

21. Think deeply before making a decision.

22. Get sunlight exposure daily.

23. “Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving.”

24. Invest in one piece of art you find beautiful and put it in your home.

25. Get a loving pet and your joy will rise.

26. Set personal deadlines for increased productivity.

27. Brag on others, not on yourself.

28. Go to bed on time.

29. Don't take your phone to bed.

30. “Always say less than necessary.” — Robert Greene

31. Remember "well done" is better than "well said".

32. Realize you can learn from everyone you meet.

33. Don't compare yourself to others.

34. Pray when things are bad, pray when things are good.

35. Value your marriage more than your career.

36. Internalize the truth that hate won't heal you.

37. Read the classics. They're timeless for a reason.

38. Choose to be powerful, not pitiful.

39. Your temper is a liability, not an asset.

40. Self-affirmations are overrated, generate evidence.

41. Pay it forward often.

42. Don't worry about the price of a book, just buy it if you will read it.

43. To see wrong, and do nothing, is wrong.

44. Be a student until the day you die.

45. Work to owe no one anything.

46. Consider the cost before moving forward.

47. Be known as a giver, not a taker.

48. Every time you are blessed, try to be a blessing.

49. Value solitude

50. Lean into challenges.

51. Pursue experiences, not things.

52. Cut toxic people from your life.

53. Visualize success habitually.

54. Stop wasting energy trying to impress people on socials with fakery.

55. Have a good "why" for everything you do. If you don't, stop doing it.

56. Don't try to beat others, beat who you were yesterday.

57. Be strict on you, lenient with others.

58. Become a master of negotiation.

59. Read biographies of the greats that went before you. Study them.

60. Have kids. There is no greater joy.

61. Forgive, even if they don't deserve it. It's not for them, it's for you.

62. Spend time with older people.

63. There is no shortcut. Learn and get to work.

64. Build discipline, don't rely on motivation.

65. Don't shun cliches. Their wisdom is timeless.

66. Read to learn, don't read to read.

67. Read philosophy.

68. Determine your philosophy.

69. Fuel the habit bonfire.

70. Life in the present, forget the past.

71. Walk everyday.

72. Tell the truth all the time.

73. No job is beneath you.

74. Make a habit of hand writing "thank-you" notes.

75. Memento Mori - think about your death. Let it change you positively.

76. Gain wealth for freedom, not status.

77. Always be the hardest workers in the room.

78. Never be the most successful person in the room.

79. Process over destination.

80. Never walk past trash and ignore it.

81. Play chess.

82. Talk to strangers, it will teach you a lot.

83. Don't dogmatize routines.

84. Learn to succeed in subpar conditions.

85. Practice the law of action, not attraction.

86. Fail often, just don't quit.

87. When you fall, get up quickly.

88. Journal

89. Stop watching the news.

90. Audit your time every quarter. Where are the time-vampires?

91. Don't be jealous of those ahead of you, learn from them.

92. Your character is more important than your bank account.

93. Say no (a lot).

94. Success is more than wealth.

95. Don't judge others.

96. "Do to others, what you would have them do to you" - Jesus Christ

97. Wake up early.

98. Cut out alcohol.

99. Love your neighbor.

100. Live an interesting life.

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20/02/2023

17/02/2023

15/02/2023

A beer company was hiring a taster, Someone to taste the beers before they are taken for selling. So they placed adverts and one afternoon, my father walked into the manager's office asking to be employed.

The manager tried to figure out how he could drive him away but couldn't come up with an idea, so he decided to give him a trial. He ordered his secretary to give him a glass of wine 🍷

He took a sip and said, "It's Red wine, Varietal, three years old, grown on rift valley, matured in steel containers."

"That's correct!" The manager exclaimed, "Well give him another one let's see." So he was given.

He took a sip again and said, "It's Guinness, a combination of barley, roast malt extract, and brewers yeast brewed around Thika road in Nairobi, Kenya 2 years ago"

"Incredible!" said the manager.

Now the manager went closer to the secretary and whispered to her saying, "Go get some of your urine in a cup let's see if he will get that."

So my father was given the cup of urine. He took a sip, turned to the manager and said, "Female urine, 26 years old, 2 weeks pregnant and if I'm not given this job, Sir I will tell your wife who is responsible for the pregnancy"

both the manager and the secretary fainted 😁😳

My father got the job✌

14/02/2023

12/02/2023

Ugandan government should assist this great gentleman in raising the kids..!

This is Musa Hasahya from Uganda, a 67 year old man with 102 children from 12 wives. He also has 568 grandchildren.

10/02/2023

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" is one of the most successful books ever published.

It's full of practical ideas and insights you can use in work and life.

Here's a brief, no-fluff summary of the most important and actionable ideas in the book:

Techniques in Handling People

1. Don't criticize, condemn, or complain.
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Six Ways to Make People Like You

1. Become genuinely interested in people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of other people's interests.
6. Make the other person feel important – and do it seriously.

Win People to Your Way Of Thinking

1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
2. Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.”
3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
4. Begin in a friendly way.
5. Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately.
6. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
7. Let the other person feel that the idea is theirs.
8. Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.

How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment

1. Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
2. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
3. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
4. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
5. Let the other person save face.
6. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”
7. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

This was curated by Farnam Street.

Book: https://amzn.to/3JXoJme

09/02/2023

TIMBUKTU (MALI) HISTORICAL FACTS
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Did you know that in the 14th century, the city of Timbuktu was 5 times larger than London?
And even that it was then the richest city in the world?

Nearly 200 years before Columbus, Malian sailors land in America.

The Malian city of Timbuktu had a population of 115,000 people in the 14th century; five times more populated than medieval London.

National Geographic recently described Timbuktu as the “Paris” of the medieval world, due to its intellectual culture. According to Professor Henry Louis Gates, 25,000 scholars studied there.

"Many old families in West Africa have private library collections that date back hundreds of years. The Mauritanian towns of Chinguetti and Oudane have a total of 3,450 hand-written medieval books.

There are believed to be 6,000 other books in the city of Oualata Some date back to the 8th century AD There are just over 11,000 books in private collections in Niger.

Finally, in Timbuktu, Mali, there are approximately 700,000 surviving books. They are written in Mande, Suqi, Peul, Sudani. The contents of the manuscripts relate to mathematics, medicine, poetry, law and astronomy.

This work represents the very first encyclopedia, in the 14th century, long before the Europeans had the idea of ​​it later, in the 18th century…

A collection of one thousand six hundred books was considered a small library for a West African scholar in the 16th century. Professor Ahmed Baba from Timbuktu claimed to have the smallest library of all his friends - he only had 1,600 volumes.

Regarding these old manuscripts, Michael Palin, in his television series "Around the Sahara", said that the imam of Timbuktu "has a collection of scientific texts which clearly show the planets orbiting the sun".

They date back hundreds of years. Palpable proof that the scholars of Timbuktu knew much more than their European counterparts.

09/02/2023

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08/02/2023

من مطار تركيا الدولي الطائرة التونسية....✈️👏🇸🇾🇹🇷🇹🇳
كنا ومازلنا و كيف العادة نقسمو قوتنا مع غيرنا و نعاونو الي يحتاجنا حتى لو كنا في اتعس الظروف ...
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