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The Power To Make A Change: Interview with Glen Jordan, Co-founder of Empowa.io

10 Dec 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Crypto Guys

An emerging and exploding trend in the world of finance is Decentralised Finance - DeFi. However, there is also an exciting emerging trend linking DeFi to real-world applications (RealFi). RealFi uses the power of decentralization and distributed led...

1-800-HELP: An Afrofuturistic Drabble

22 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

To Your Highness, the Empress of the United States of Africa: Dear Madam, I know you are a very busy woman so allow me to be brief. I am the chief representative of the First World Countries Alliance. I am following up on the matter of you opening yo...

Spotted Harlequin Snake (Homoroselaps lacteus)

30 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments willemvzyl

This little guy is a Spotted Harlequin Snake - a beautiful but venomous species from South Africa. These colourful snakes average 30 – 40 cm with a maximum length of 65 cm. They vary greatly in colour, depending on locality and are found in fynbos,...

(JaiChai) Those who forget the past... (Re: Japan, Africa)

11 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

  image source   It is wise to remember how post-war Japan went from "a maker of cheap, low quality products to the nation that dethroned 'The Big three of Detroit'; that is, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles". You...

Sierra Leone Abolishes Death Penalty

9 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Sierra Leone has become the 23rd nation in Africa to abolish the death penalty after President Julius Maada Bio signed into a law a new measure outlawing capital punishment, which was initially unanimously agreed upon by the 146-seat legislature of t...

Mother Africa.

5 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Today, I walk the paths my fathers used to walk with prideWith tears in my eyes and heaviness in my heartThe thoughts that they turn in their gravesTears my heart into pieces Today, I think of the strongand courageous onesThe ancient warlords and r...

Save Lives! Go Outside, Exercise, Eat Healthy

1 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments isysd

TLDR; Grab a banana and ride your bike to work before telling me to get vaccinated. TLDR video: Full video: It has been rainy here for a couple of weeks, and I have neither been eating healthy, nor getting outside. At the same time, I hadn't been fe...

Today, there is Snowfall in Sub-Saharan Africa

28 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I ended up working in the rain today, exercising dogs. Even though I wore a raincoat, jacket and gloves, I got soaked through and lost sensation in my fingers and toes. Today has been so cold that about an hour after I got home, snow started to fall....

Legacy of the Richest Man in History

16 Aug 2021 3 minute read 2 comments wackywriter

On one trip, his charitable donations single-handedly, and accidentally, caused 12 years of hyperinflationary crisis. With a wealth too vast to be calculated, the richest person to have ever existed, supported by well documented and audited literatur...

Cryptocurrency: Africa’s New Common Song

5 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Justino

Some people believe cryptocurrency is Africa’s new gold and its new common song. The movement fueled initially because of the ease it brought in sending and receiving funds from rich relatives in the diaspora has grown into startups, organizations, c...