Jermaine Craig @Jermainecraig Twitter profile

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Jermaine Craig

8 months

Myself and others in the diaspora have formed a community. We each chip in £5 a month to fund projects back home. We vote on how the money is spent. We’ve deployed £104,832 into projects so far. Interested in joining?

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

You merely adopted the Dettol. I was born in it, molded by it.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Over the last two months, I've been building a non-profit company for the black community. It's ready to see the world, and I'm excited about the journey ahead. Introducing ... Please share :)

Kwanda - Where diaspora meets philanthropy

Diasporans pooling capital to fund sustainable development across Africa.

kwanda.co

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

So ... I just relocated to Lagos 🇳🇬. Who should I reach out to? Try and meet up with? ... I want to get deep into the tech & startup ecosystem. Any suggestions welcome.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

2 years

It's been tough sitting on this one, but I decided this month to close the doors on Kwanda. I've published a letter explaining why 👇🏾

Kwanda

@JoinKwanda

2 years

😔❤️ This month, we made the difficult decision to close Kwanda down and cease operations. 🪶 We've published a closing letter from our founder detailing why.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

I have this working theory about blackness and creativity in the age of automation. [Thread below]

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 months

"Black people don't support each other". I can't agree. We have 100 - 150 joining @JoinKwanda every month to support people they may never meet. Putting up £5 a month in a cost of living crisis. 🇳🇬 Nigerian Diasporans happily investing in 🇬🇭 Ghanaian school kids. 🇯🇲 Jamaican

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I’m actually mad proud of Kwanda. Such a fun thing to spend my time on.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

More funny company building stories. Last month 2 global brands got in contact asking if donations to Kwanda are anonymous. I thought “These donations are going to be huge”. I said “Yes”. They dropped about £75 between the two of them.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

1 year

Here's what I'm working on next! UBI for people living below the poverty line. Pilot launching in Nigeria in October. 🇳🇬

Kwanda

@JoinKwanda

1 year

Hey everyone! 👋🏾 We're back and excited to introduce @joinmoyo - Where givers can come together to provide a reliable monthly income to people living below the poverty line.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Old work. I (now) think I can make this happen one day. "What happens to the homeless in a cashless society"

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

The problem with diversity and inclusion is it does not actually include everyone. [Thread below]

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I don’t miss London, but I miss my family. I don’t love Nigeria, but I love Nigerians. Life is about people.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

8 years

Get a job. Save up. Quit. Work on your dream until broke. Rinse and repeat until it works.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

It took 31 years to find work that I’m in love with. I get it now. Something changed last week, and I’m still in that glow. I realised @JoinKwanda had fallen perfectly in line with who I am and how I want to work.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Fewer panels, more work, please. The work is in lack. The panels are overflowing.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

This year has forced me to live in my biggest fears daily: - Disappointing people - Rejecting people - Failing publicly Feeling stronger though.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 months

We hit 1000 villagers at @JoinKwanda 💛

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Seeing black women on twitter with “tech entrepreneur”, “obsessed with tech”, “tech newbie”, “software”, “UI/UX” in their bios is exciting. Most times I’ve encountered black women in tech, esp on the entrepreneur side, they’ve been really, really good at it.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Black people: If you’re consistently tired. Get your Vitamin D, testosterone and thyroid levels tested and corrected. Take a vitamin D3 supplement (8000 UI) correctly: With a fatty meal, and alongside Vitamin K2, A & Zinc.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I like building new things. I like optimising things that have been built. I don’t like maintaining. I don’t like management.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

You’re still in control of your day, week, year or life if you still have the ability to: - Say No - Ask specific, unusual, and interesting questions - Challenge your perspective - Follow a plan

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Most people won’t ‘get back to you’. Most people won’t finish that course. Most people won’t do anything with their ideas. There is very little competition for those who do what they say they will do. Use that.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 years

That feeling you get when you help someone move forward. That warm sense that you’re useful and necessary in the world. I’d like to scale that.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Just published Kwanda's 5-phase development plan. If you're interested in learning about the long term vision.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I’m excited about the shift to remote working. More opportunity for Africans to participate in global development. Clears the runway for the diaspora to return home and build their lives, careers and families in more abundant and interesting terrain.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Again. Every aspect of my personal life is significantly and positively enhanced if I go to bed before 10pm. Every single one.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

High ROI things I did last year: - Therapy - Non negotiable 8-hour sleep habit - Paid course on stock trading - Fixed Vit D, Testosterone and Typhoid levels - Joined @thread - Travelled to Ghana - Weekly infrared sauna therapy

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

D&I is paying people to sit in an uncomfortable chair and asking them to be grateful for the opportunity. D&I thinks more people in those chairs will make everything better. The problem is the chair. It’s not comfortable.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Looking for a CTO (unpaid at first) to @JoinKwanda and lead engineering, own core product, develop style-guide, testing, etc. We’re using Vue, Firebase and Cloud functions. Let’s work together. Lots to do.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Accepting responsibility is self-care.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

A lot of your favourite Black representatives are terrified of being attached to “Black only” versus “BAME”, and large corporations are their sole income providers so their activism is capped. More tea soon.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

In UK schooling I had ADHD. In Nigerian schooling I took notes with robotic focus, day in day out. Maybe I don’t have ADHD.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 months

🎉 Saturday was amazing. 🤯 300+ in attendance. Shallat security for doing the right thing and letting more people in beyond capacity. Here's the only video I managed to capture as people began streaming in. It was so good to see all the amazing villagers and friends of

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

2 years

We need many individual, narrow and small philanthropists rather than large charities. So many of us miss the opportunity to save and transform lives around the world.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Being a Jack of all trades is really paying off now.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

6 years

It took me a year, but I'm very proud of how it came together. A—mood is now live. Limited sign ups:

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

🖐️🏿 Product/website designers I get a few work requests into my inbox that I haven't got the capacity to handle. If you're looking for freelance work in the coming months and beyond that let me know, and I'll work out a way to pass on jobs.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 years

❤️ These reminders keep founders going. Non-profit work is tough work, but well worth it.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

Got a lil emotional receiving these pics from Kenya 🇰🇪. Because of @JoinKwanda members, this community just harvested their first batch of sustainable crops. Man, I'm so proud of us. Let's do more 🚀

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

My phrase of the year: “Join den”. “Kwanda is amazing. Finally. We need this. Thanks for doing this. I hope this succeeds” ... Join den

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Any founders have mental models / frameworks for eliminating, or getting close to eliminating all inconsequential meetings, introductions, requests, etc? I'm wasting a lot of time managing noise.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Don’t complain about the status quo. Build something that challenges that status quo. Against all odds. Even if it doesn’t work it will fill you with purpose, and that’s a good way to move through life - with purpose.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

2 years

Everything’s hard. Pick your hard.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

6 months

If you can’t find it, build it.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

9 months

🫰🏾 Something we should pull together and get behind. Free extra GCSE tuition for Black boys. Target is £10k. I’m in. Organised by @sethanthonyp

Free Extra GCSE Tuition For Black Boys, organized by Symphony Consort

Symphony Schools 2.0! Symphony Schools is back and going National! Launchi… Symphony Consort needs your support for Free Extra GCSE Tuition For Black Boys

www.gofundme.com

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Looking for a generalist Freelance Writer to join the team @JoinKwanda ad-hoc / long-term. If you're comfortable writing sales copy, press releases, blog articles, email correspondence, editing, quick updates etc ... let's work together.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

2 years

Sustainable and impactful micro-loans are possible. See what we've been doing in 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone for the past year.

Kwanda

@JoinKwanda

2 years

🇸🇱 Meet Kadiatu, one of the entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone who got a loan backed by Kwanda. 🤝🏿 Recently, she initiated her second loan period to help her new business venture: hand-crafted soap production locally known as "Africana Soap". Learn more:

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

I think black history and black present has forced a lot of black people to deeply lean into the human skill of creativity, which is becoming an increasingly prized skill as automation washes over the world.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

If you're an entrepreneur that wants to work on big, complex problems 👉🏿 Africa.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

‘Removing things’ for happiness > ‘Adding things’ for happiness.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Black people are able to easily manage multiple personalities and voices from the age of 5, switching and adapting at a whim, but we couldn't call ourselves professional actors.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

This video man ❤️ If you hear Yoruba, you hear prayer. #Kwanda

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 months

It's easy to find strategists. Infinitely harder to find people that can get their hands dirty and execute a strategy. Generally I'm avoiding working with people who put forward strategies they couldn't execute themselves.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Outsized returns from hiring Black women and investing in Black women founders. Why aren’t we doing it at a rate that matches the return? ... or even a fraction of it.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

Sha @JoinKwanda - help build home.

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@pllski

7 months

@SemudaraAbayomi Hi Bayomi, It's not my job to conform to the way that you do things. You want to do business with Americans, you have to do things the way WE do things, not complain that we're being biased. You can say the same thing about me, which is true. But I don't care about doing any

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

For those wondering. I don’t take a salary at Kwanda, and I don’t intend to. I run a product agency where we build products and internal automation for Series A and B startups and sometimes public companies. That’s my income source.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 years

It’s less about how much money we make and more about how much freedom we lose.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

I also think black people know this, and show it off in the way we move and talk. We're calling it sauce but I think it's just the result of being forced to live a highly creative life.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

So much of the foundation Africans and Caribbean’s in the UK are building on today was laid by Caribbeans. I can never do the diaspora war thing, except for pronouncing plantain with the “ain”.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

2 years

For example, in Nigeria there are so many people in prison for non-crimes where they’ll be released upon paying a £20 fine. You can make it your personal mission to get 5 people a month out. No website, no company, no fanfare. Just a simple mission.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

If you learn something you can teach something. Education alongside technology must be one of the most leveraged approaches to tacking this centuries challenges.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

It feels like we’re being called upon to take on the next wave of complex global challenges, right as we find ourselves in an age of entertainment and attention deficit.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Decentralisation is hope for the next generation of Africans. Decentralised infrastructure, Decentralised banking, Decentralised energy.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 months

Very proud of the work we're doing to support girls with reusable menstrual kits. I had zero notions of menstruation being seen as taboo in places. I feel a little naive now, but it was a very normal part of life in my household. I wouldn't have paid much attention to period

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

I'm sure many of us have had the experience of looking inside a stark freezer, complaining there's nothing to eat, only for our African & Caribbean parents to look in the same freezer and put together 5 different meals that are amazing.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

8 months

@nern31 - Feel free to ask me questions. Happy to answer :)

Kwanda - Where diaspora meets philanthropy

Diasporans pooling capital to fund sustainable development across Africa.

kwanda.co

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Most founders are simply learning on the go, and hoping the learning is happening quickly enough for them to have all their bases covered.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

You’re not bad at public speaking. You haven’t done the rounds. You’re not bad at drawing. You haven’t done the rounds. You’re not bad at building businesses. You haven’t done the rounds.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

It will be important for black people to recognise 'creativity' as an undercurrent of all human activity and not just an industry. This means the creativity we use in the kitchen is the same creativity we will use to solve food distribution problems.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

10 years

More Artwork. Enjoying making artwork right now. http://t.co/ZnTfFA5g4P

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Anyone experienced (7 year +) javascript developers on my timeline that is up for pairing with me as a peer / mentor? Happy to trade in design time.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

‘Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.’

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

Your ego calls it criticism. Your wisdom calls it insight.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 months

🚀 Milestone hit: 900 villagers at @JoinKwanda as of today. The first 1000 villagers will be marked and outlined in our records. If this were 2009, I would tell you to buy Bitcoin. In 2024, I'm telling you to make that cohort of Kwanda's first 1000. In a few years, you'll

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

2 years

Curious about how other men have journeyed or are journeying towards feeling adequate, without money or prestige propping up that journey.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

There will come a time where it's too expensive for advertisers to not go directly to the sauce for content and virality. When that time comes, make sure you are independent and own your creativity.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I like a challenge but Nigeria ... omo 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 months

People telling me I should be focusing on venture capital in Africa, not philanthropy. I’d like to remind you @OpenAI was created with philanthropic capital. Tech startups are good, We want to fund African research labs, science, innovation.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 months

This is how well @JoinKwanda has grown since January. We're at a 30% monthly growth rate! 100+ people have joined this month, and we're 12 days in. Individuals coming together to build out a dignified source of funding for ourselves. I'm excited to watch us all become leaders

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

8 months

When Black community leaders break trust (around money), it’s not just an unfortunate greedy moment. It wipes out millions in future value and assets that could have only been captured by groups. Which are impossible to build with eroded trust. It's such a wicked thing to do.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

6 months

We certainly came back stronger the second time around. The support for Kwanda is very much appreciated. We don't have any backers, just the individuals who decide to join the community and support the work we do. That feels good!

Kwanda

@JoinKwanda

6 months

Soooo, today we're celebrating 🥳 500+ people joining Kwanda! Another milestone down. We appreciate you 🙌🏿.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 months

A beautiful month for Kwanda 💛 🚀 We hit our first traction goal of 1000 villagers 🪩 300+ villagers and friends attended our London event 🫰🏿 We grew our monthly income from £6,500 to £8,900 🇿🇼 We launched a project in Zimbabwe!

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

6 months

Backed by 540 members. We're on track to get to £10,000 this year.

Kwanda

@JoinKwanda

6 months

Kwanda has hit £4,924 in monthly income and closing in on our second financial milestone this year!

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 years

A photograph from a documentary series I'm hoping to finish shooting called 'Express Service'.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

As far as marketing goes, it feels like, these days, all roads inevitably lead to sitting in front of a camera and recording short form content.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I’m currently very interested in or actively pursuing: Independent community settlements in Africa (or charter cities), Blockchain applications, Decentralisation / unbundling citizens from bad governments.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

7 months

Where it started ... 💛 Where it is now The first attempt at building a vertical garden and how it looks today. 🙏🏿 We’ve funded 20 vertical gardens so far, and they’ll feed 150 people sustainably.

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@Jermainecraig

4 months

Students without access to sustainable menstrual products miss 3-5 school days per month. This means up to 65 days per year, or nearly 20% of the school year, is lost to a lack of access to necessary products. 🤯 It costs us £5 to reclaim 500 hours of additional school time per

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 years

Mandem, If you’re feeling lethargic, check that you’re not going too far out against your own nature. Code-switching, pandering, lying, all those things.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

Owning our creativity means owning our history, the good and bad parts, but that's all useless if we don't own our future. So as a culture we need to pull up to every table and lean on our creativity. Creative thinkers can never be imposters.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

In this new age, we're coming into we'll have to be able to sharply identify the value of our creativity and price tag it because it's going to be the most sought after resource in a world of robots.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

You know what to do, but you don't do it, so you suffer.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

10 months

We're up!

Kwanda - Where diaspora meets philanthropy

Diasporans pooling capital to fund sustainable development across Africa.

kwanda.co

Kwanda

@JoinKwanda

10 months

🎉 Kwanda village gates are officially open! We welcome you, once again, to join us.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

5 years

In a time like this I’m grateful for the large amounts of time I’ve invested in to reading Stoic philosophy. My most read and most recommended: - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - The shortness of life by Seneca

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

4 years

I wonder how much of the things we currently tweet in good faith will be grounds for cancellation 30 years from now.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

9 months

Black people need to fail more ... More precisely, Black people need more opportunities to fail.

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Jermaine Craig

@Jermainecraig

3 years

Sometimes you forget you're living out your prayers because things are not always glamorous. Not always glamorous but, certainly, always beautiful. Note to self.

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