mwiya @mwiyas Twitter profile

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mwiya

11 months

Live life large in private, live it small in public; be a ghost to most; and to the extent you can--fully present to those you hold close.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

3 years

Was an honor to see my father sworn into the office of Finance Minister on Friday. As a son I’m proud of his accomplishment. However, as a citizen, I expect him to perform solely for the common good of the republic. Period. Godspeed to him & the government he serves in.

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mwiya

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4 years

So I’ve finally seen all 10 provinces in my country. Spellbound at its beauty. Eventually seeing all of Africa would be nice.

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@mwiyas

3 years

WhatsApp is “down” in Zambia on our General Election. Friends in the rest of the world, please signal boost this. Pls RT. Pls share; pls get this in front of change makers. The internet is our global commons, and everyone’s best bet at safeguarding the good of the people.

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4 years

Thread: Why we need another African Renaissance Part of the legacy of racism is the huge amount of brainwashing generations of black people went through. One experience I had with this as a kid was a conversation I had with my grand mother.

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@mwiyas

4 years

You can see the world in the context of the West’s 300-400yrs of dominance, or you can see it within the context of ALL of human history. In that latter view...the future is very malleable. Africa, India, China & the Middle East are where exciting things happen.

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@mwiyas

3 years

Zambia’s charismatic 1st president, Kenneth Kaunda has died at 97. Takes a unique type of individual to create a new nation ex-nihilo, build a new identity for a country and have it cohere successfully. KK casts a long shadow on the continent. His was a life well lived!

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@mwiyas

6 years

Grateful to be on the 2018 Forbes Africa Under 30 list. Grateful for the journey thus far. Still have much work to do. 2018 & 2019 are big development years for us. Excited for the future. Grateful for amazing customers, partners, mentors, former bosses, staff, family & friends.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

4 years

Starting next week Monday, we’ll be giving away plots for free. Only by application. If you meet our residency standards, we’ll assign the property to you. I’ve been saying for years—we’re building a city. This is one way to get it populated. From the 28th of Sept

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@mwiyas

3 years

One time for the noble Zam-dog. Doesn’t eat the village chickens, know which random plants to eat when sick, finds it’s own food, and still come home every evening to play with its owner for vibes

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mwiya

@mwiyas

4 years

Every telco should be worried that their lunch just got eaten. Also, the global labor market is about to get very dynamic.

Kenneth Auchenberg 🛠

@auchenberg

4 years

Results from a StarLink beta tester in Washington state 🤯 "Streaming 1440p and 4K with zero buffering on YouTube."

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@mwiyas

3 months

I’m at the age where all I see here is maintained costs and ways a kid could injure themselves

Interior Design

@InterioorDesign

3 months

The type of home I deserve

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@mwiyas

3 years

African monarchs gave A LOT away for soft life and trinkets. They lived well, their people didn't. They got distracted and paid dearly in sovereignty. Seems like those same mistakes are being made again across the continent by leaders, and the economic and cultural elites.

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@mwiyas

3 years

The impunity of people who can turn off social media for 18 million people; of which 7 million would be voting…. Who then finds that they are losing massively, and claims the election in which they gave themselves every advantage—is unfair to them!

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@mwiyas

3 years

Not bad for 32 and a bad economy. With a team that’s mostly under 30. If you disagree, you’re welcome to try.

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@mwiyas

4 years

The Weiss resignation letter is a super watershed moment. An insider saying everything @balajis has been saying for a long time!

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@mwiyas

4 years

The notion that future is a commons, and one that is best cared for in the present is both fantastically thrilling but also nerve wracking. Stewardship of the future is one of those things that’s non-deferrable. You carry the yoke, now, today. You build it now, today.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

7 years

At sea in Zambia.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

5 years

A new home for tech startups, developers and designers in Lusaka is almost ready. Sometimes to take a step forward, you take a sideways step first. Looking forward to saying a lot more about this within the course of this week.

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@mwiyas

4 years

2 billion liters of water. Man...even when I’m an old man, looking at this will still tear me up. People want to know what it takes to build cities. Tears and sweat. Anyways, we have 30km of roads to build this year. Time to return to my work.

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@mwiyas

3 years

A National Braii is loading 😃

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@mwiyas

3 years

Generally think that in much of Africa we over-engineer our buildings. For example, in much of the continent it’s dry for 7-9 months. So why these big expensive roofs?

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@mwiyas

3 years

They insisted I wear a chi uniform…no sweatpants and t shirt 😭

Perseus Mlambo

@perseusmlambo

3 years

When you have to give a budget speech but HR insists that today is bring your son to work day.

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@mwiyas

3 years

An epic landslide is loading in Zambia. Fueled by massive voter turnout and highly motivated youth who made their voices heard. The powers that be have tried everything they can to suppress this. But hey—this is what progress looks like. People deciding their own futures!

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@mwiyas

4 years

Produced by my 6yo daughter. 😍

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@mwiyas

3 years

Gallery.

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@mwiyas

4 years

I see a lot of Africans falling for the most recent “being a billionaire is bad” zeitgeist. Listen, in the real world—greater collective and individual wealth is the only real means of safeguarding freedom. Even communist China understands this.

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@mwiyas

4 years

When I turned 18 I thought I was adult. When I turned 21 I was convinced I was an adult. When I turned 30 I realized I knew nothing and only people above 50 deserve to be called adults. The rest of us are learner adults 😂

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@mwiyas

3 years

The worse the restaurant looks, the better the food. Why?

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@mwiyas

4 years

The Qualtrics Founder that married Dambisa Moyo is a lucky guy; just married an author of several best selling [and serious] books, a global economics thinker, board member of Fortune 500 companies, & a Harvard graduate who is also an Oxford PhD. Dude has McKinsey & Co at home

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@mwiyas

3 years

Zambia is a small country, she’s had her ups, and downs, a lot of downs: but she always punches above her weight! The lines I saw yesterday when voting, and the vigilance I’m seeing today…. Never been more proud to be a Zambian. 🇿🇲

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@mwiyas

3 years

Seeing friends do well is amazing!

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@mwiyas

2 years

Steve Ballmer is a Microsoft HODLER and earned $81 billion of value doing so. Microsoft founder, Bill Gates lost ~$800 billion selling down his Microsoft stock. There’s a lesson somewhere in there

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@JonErlichman

2 years

On this day in 1980: Steve Ballmer became Microsoft employee #24 . His shares are now worth $81 billion.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

3 years

HH talks like he’ll have a Bloomberg terminal at his desk

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@mwiyas

4 years

$/ZMW 2010. $/ZMW 2020

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@mwiyas

3 years

Eventually, one comes to see that the prerequisite for a seat at the table is just being friends with people who have tables. You invite them to yours and break bread. They invite you to theirs and break bread. Friendship matters.

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@mwiyas

3 years

8 more years to 40. Time to get more serious about life 😂😂

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@mwiyas

3 years

They failed to break @HHichilema , they tried hard. He has been resolute. They physically attacked his home, they jailed him, harassed his friends and businesses; he remained resolute. Super proud of @HHichilema !

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@mwiyas

3 years

Africa. Vaccinated world.

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@mwiyas

3 years

In 1930s & 40s London, people from around the “Commonwealth” met in cafes & university dorms to plan the future of their respective countries. They came from Kenya, Singapore, India & elsewhere. Today we meet on the internet to build the ascendant world.

Balaji

@balajis

3 years

Crypto allows technological progressives around the world to coordinate. Working with @mwiyas to do crypto crowdsourcing of Afrofuturist art for the second annual New African Renaissance conference. Winners get BTC and featured NFTs. Details below.

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@mwiyas

3 years

Here we go--announcing TalentDAO. Please read Atlas, the short paper on what we want to do, and then join the discord server. Get involved, let's build. Let's merge the metaverse and real life! 😀

TalentDAO--Atlas Paper

TalentDAO __________________________________________________________ ATLAS Overview In mid 2020 we published the Black Paper, a concept note that outlined our mission to use web3 to connect talented...

docs.google.com

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mwiya

@mwiyas

2 years

Africa is in desperate need of Rothschild/Morgan/Barings types who fund the future with long term capital; across asset classes, and think generationally. Where are they? Who are they?

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@mwiyas

5 years

Founders of tech startups in Zambia, specifically those with traction. I’d like to know if you need formal office space, and if so; how many people you have on your team. I’m looking to provide a couple teams with free office space. Please DM me if you are keen.

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@mwiyas

3 years

It was a pleasure to host Lafarge & Atlas Mara in @Nkwashi_ last week. We gave away two homes to the winners of a "win a home" campaign. It was an especially moving experience to give away this home to a single mother of 5.

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@mwiyas

2 years

Cross-generational friendships are a cheat code in the game of life.

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@mwiyas

3 years

As I wait in line to vote; this decision comes down to numbers. GDP in 2010; $25bn GDP in 2021; $18bn GDP in 2021 if economy had kept growing at >6.5% annually; >$50bn The decade was wasted.

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@mwiyas

5 years

Photo Journal: waterscapes of Zambia

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@mwiyas

4 years

Two things: (1) the older generation need to show more love for this Republic (2) the younger generation need to take responsibility for the future of this Republic End of rant.

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@mwiyas

3 years

In view of recent media reports regarding my being appointed to the President of the Republic of Zambia's business advisory council, I am issuing this public statement; I have not been appointed to the said council.

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@mwiyas

4 years

Pre-orders for our second city development are now open. Join the waitlist and get a chance to secure beachfront properties on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

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@mwiyas

9 months

Soft life apologists are fooling a lot of young people into thinking the good life comes easy, eschewing the hard work needed to sustain one. Most people who live softly actually work very hard and do the soft things on their limited downtime. Social media obfuscates this.

Dr Ola Brown

@NaijaFlyingDr

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Lee Kuan Yew explains why young people in poorer countries shouldn't try to imitate the "soft life" that Western countries portray. Working your way out if poverty is seriously hard work. Read more here:

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@mwiyas

4 years

Photo Journal: expedition continues

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@mwiyas

5 years

Trade in motion.

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@mwiyas

4 years

If you could distill all your New Years resolutions or aspirations into a single word, what would it be? ‘Discipline’ is my word for 2021.

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@mwiyas

3 years

If humanity has a North Star Metric, what do you think it is?

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@mwiyas

2 years

Me: scrolls the timeline, finds an interesting conversation. Starts typing a contribution.... Also me: Deletes what I've typed and keeps scrolling and thinks to self "yeah -- this will get toxic really fast." 80% of the time 😂

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@mwiyas

3 years

Interesting experience. Done.

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@mwiyas

8 months

Have been working on this for a while. What do you think about this aesthetic?

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@mwiyas

3 years

RIP, Simon Zukas. Was born in Lithuania, left in the shadow of Nazi expansion; settled in Northern Rhodesia but lived and breathed Zambia. Freedom fighter, and one of many of our republic’s founders. Rest in power ✊🏾🇿🇲

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3 years

When I was an investment analyst my boss would often ask “are you a desktop analyst or a real analyst?” His point: Unless you visit portfolio companies to understand how they work from production floor to customer transactions… Your spreadsheets are meaningless best guesses.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

3 years

Main thing I learned in 2021. A man must live life on his own terms. You may very well live a life of duty to others, but it will only have meaning for you if it’s on terms you willingly accept as your own. Also, I really love what I do. Even though it’s stressful AF!

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@mwiyas

4 years

Me to my future grand kids: once upon a time specialized companies could “news organizations” used to collect information from people, edit it based on their interests, and then sell it to the public. Grand kid: Kinda like how banks used to work? Me: Exactly like that

Balaji

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4 years

Sources talking to each other, disintermediating the legacy media. And unlike Twitter, it’s not textual sniping but long-form audio without a scoreboard for every sentence. Much more incentive for friendly, informative conversation.

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mwiya

@mwiyas

3 years

43 students in May, 2K now.

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@mwiyas

1 year

Africa needs a home for people who want to build quietly, or loudly, or however they want. Zambia has a chance to be a home for the dreamers who build tomorrow. Make it so, Zambia.

Why Zambia may be Africa’s next major tech hub | TechCabal

The Zambia tech ecosystem seems well positioned to be in the "major tech hubs in Africa" conversation in the next few years.

techcabal.com

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3 years

"We may, at long last, shatter the geographic lottery, opening up opportunity to countless people who weren’t lucky enough to be born in the right place." The internet economy/opportunity cloud is about to reprice labor markets...big time!

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

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4 years

Found paradise, it’s called Zambia.

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5 years

Man, give yourself over to a cause. Either build one, or find one. Pour yourself out, find meaning in it and strive for your best in pursuing it. The emptiness of the silent but suffering man, is sometimes the consequence of a lack of purpose.

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@mwiyas

5 years

Things I’ve come to accept, the odds of changing someone’s mind on a matter via a social media debate....are low.

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@mwiyas

2 years

Black people, when did we have a town hall to discuss this? I seem to have missed it 😂

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THREAD: Black users are contemplating leaving Twitter following news that Elon Musk is buying it in a $44 billion deal. The loss of #BlackTwitter could mean financial blowback

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6 months

There's something terribly unprofessional about the trend of Zambian CEOs building personal brands totally independent of the organisations they lead... Just does not sit well with me

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@mwiyas

5 years

Zambia’s current macroeconomic situation is not intractable. Five big problems: 1) BOP in the negative 2) Large long-standing fiscal deficit 3) High Debt/GDP Ratio 4) High Debt/Revenue Ratio 5) High Emolument/Revenue Ratio All very fixable.

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@mwiyas

3 years

Build a full life, build financial resources, find a career you enjoy, find your passions, build great friendships & networks, find your footing as an individual. Flourish, be happy; live fully. When all of that is done, find a man who’s done the same for himself.

Feminist Witch 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🌙

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3 years

Because I don't want girls giving up their careers and lives for men. Please share what you think girls in their early 20s should experience before they even consider marriage.

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5 years

A pilot friend sent us this photo the other day.

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1 year

Affordable housing is a problem yet to be solved in much of Africa...If you live in Zambia....I'd like to hear your thoughts on modern terraced/semi-detached housing. Check out the photos below. To the extent the below was affordable, would you find it attractive, or no?

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@mwiyas

3 years

1st day of the year was spent with my makers where I grew’d up as the people say.

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3 years

🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲 Landslide. It's official! Democracy worked! Kudos to everyone who went out to vote!

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4 years

In principle she was asking “what have we built that is of equal or superior value?” We can talk, we can walk. But if we don’t build: we are just tenants in someone else’s house. If you disagree with me, that’s fine. I’m still going to build.

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@mwiyas

4 years

Some time ago my father and I had a conversation about the shortness of life and the importance of identity. Short thread.

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@mwiyas

4 years

It’s easy to be woke. It’s another matter to invest in the future. The black community has had 60+ years of people talking. What we need are people who invest. JD Rockefeller I put his capital where his mouth was—financed Morehouse. You want equality? Invest equity.

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3 years

DMX died today. RIP. His has been a very public struggle with addiction. One that has ended in the death of a talent. Many such deaths happen daily. Only difference is they go silently into their night. Addiction isn’t a criminal matter. It’s a public health issue.

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4 years

Botswana is an example of an African country that has had generally sensible leaders. They didn’t pull rabbits out of hats. There is no mystery to what they have done other than just being competent. They’ve had their faults. But they’ve generally been competent.

Jan Sadek

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Congratulations to @BWGovernment for the no. 1 ranking on the Financial Strength list of the World's Top 66 Emerging Markets (by The Economist). 🇪🇺🇧🇼

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4 years

Site 2. Paradise.

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4 years

Was told to come in a suit. Came in a [track]suit.

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3 years

@VikSoho @Kdenkss Exactly. Not only Africans, they are segregating brown people in general. Global south needs to figure out its place in a multi-polar order, and that for now largely means being non-aligned.

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3 years

The president’s speech was especially moving; big on prudence, growth, the need to rebuild the country’s treasury, and most importantly zero tolerance for corruption. Great to see moral leadership be emphasized. I hope this minister and others outperform.

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5 years

Two college room mates, 20yrs after their PhDs...and the chancellor of Germany some 10yrs ago. Run your race.

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@mwiyas

4 years

Poverty is a governance outcome. Societal flourishing is also a governance outcome.

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3 years

Can’t cast a vision for the future if you don’t have a plan for your present. Can’t image what your civilization might look like in the future, if your leaders are content to be in the lowest caste of someone else’s civilization. Can’t build if you only consume.

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3 years

What does African Science Fiction project? Why do we have so little of it? Are Africans not set to live in the future?

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3 years

Magnanimity is key. The next group of leaders will need to avoid the temptation to be haughty. The people are sovereign. Public service is in a republic is just that—service. A paternalistic attitude will have to be avoided. A cultural reset is what we all need.

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@mwiyas

4 years

A private recording of a clubhouse conversation is published—names mentioned etc. If FB did this, the blowback would be insane. Wild.

🦄Ariana The Techie

@arianathetechie

4 years

@Jason Is that even legal? To just record audio and write an article about something someone said, without their permission??

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6 years

For the sake of clarity. It’s unimportant to me whether I’m self made or not. I don’t care about wealth. I’m privileged. Yes. I don’t care about money. Anyone who knows me, knows this. I care about building AFRICA. Building Nkwashi. Advancing US. That’s why I do what I do.

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3 years

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2 years

Sunrise

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5 years

On love, in this life. A few words I’ll be leaving behind for my daughter, and any other future children. It’s become fashionable to think about love as though it were some consumer product. There to serve you, and make you happy. Experience will teach you otherwise.

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3 years

EU lockout of African countries owing to the new variant sends a very bad signal about vaccinations and PCR testing protocols for travel. What’s the point of rigorous protocols and vaccination requirements if it all goes out of the window at a moments notice?

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4 years

One of the things I learned from my parents is to invest in relationships for the long term. A lot of the friends, professional relationships, and staff they’ve worked or done life with are still part of their lives—several decades in.

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4 years

Pretty clear by now that ETH and Bitcoin will have multi-trillion dollar market caps. Really excited about ETH in particular. The Ethereum network’s utility to the world is enormous AND its still early days. This is like the early days of the internet.

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