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Australia says China is carrying out “the biggest conventional military buildup since World War II.”
Beijing’s answer is simple:
Yes, China is building the military strength necessary to defend its sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
That is what happens when a civilization remembers what weakness cost it.
If China had possessed overwhelming military strength in the 1930s, Asia would not have been burned across by Japanese fascism while foreign powers stood by, calculated, bargained, and watched.
And the irony of Australia lecturing China about military power is almost too perfect.
A settler state born through colonial conquest now treats an Asian country’s ability to defend itself as inherently suspicious—while hosting expanding U.S. forces, nuclear-submarine deployments, and an alliance architecture aimed squarely at China.
So when Beijing says:
“stop making irresponsible remarks,”
the message is not difficult to understand.
China will not apologize for being strong enough to prevent history from happening to it again.
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#hotoffthebench
Justice Nyaundi has ordered a police officer to personally pay the Petitioner constitutional damages and costs for unlawfully detaining the Petitioner’s lorry and persisting in defending that illegality. Follows Mosigisi Kimeiwa precedent
Personal responsibility!
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If you work at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture, EY, Deloitte, PwC, if you are an in-house consultant or an independent, you are witnessing the consulting industry being split in two.
I just mapped 60 core consulting skills (both hard and soft) against the impending threat of Generative AI.
The result is what I called the Consulting AI Threat Matrix, and it reveals which skills will be commoditized and which will become your ultimate competitive moat.
I plotted these skills across two dimensions (because I'm a consultant and I love a good quadrant 😅)
The dimensions are:
1) Modality of execution (Algorithmic vs. Interpersonal)
2) Environmental entropy (Deterministic vs. Ambiguous)
The findings are a wake-up call for how firms train their talent:
- The Commoditization Zone (Bottom-Left): Standard financial modeling, UI/UX, RPA, and slide generation are facing severe disruption. If your value is tied to synthesizing clean data in predictable environments, GenAI will do it faster.
- The Augmentation Zone (Bottom-Right): Cloud architecture, predictive modeling, and hypothesis-driven problem-solving. GenAI is your co-pilot here, but human knowledge and judgment is required to navigate the ambiguity.
- The Strategic Premium (Top-Right): Consensus building, crisis de-escalation, unbiased judgment, and executive storytelling. GenAI cannot read a hostile stakeholder or mediate a turf war between a CIO and a CMO. This is the human moat.
If you are a senior consultant, a manager, director, partner, or aspiring consultant, your career trajectory depends on migrating to the top right.
I put together a detailed 10-page paper breaking down exactly how these 60 skills were evaluated, the criteria for each quadrant, and how consulting firms need to restructure their training programs to survive this shift, plus what actions you can take to safeguard yourself.
Just ping me somehow (comment here or DM me) and I'll send you the paper.
All the best!
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🇧🇫Captain Ibrahim Traoré laid out Burkina Faso's terms for foreign investment in a speech that has been circulating across the continent, and the line that keeps getting shared is the one that cuts deepest.
"Anyone who wants to cooperate with us is welcome… but now in Burkina Faso, the resources belong to us 100%. If they come with the spirit of a master to treat us like slaves, we will expel them" .
He was not closing the door. He was redefining who holds the key.
The full speech, reported by African Nugget, makes the distinction clear. Traoré is not saying foreigners cannot do business in Burkina Faso. He is saying they cannot do it on the old terms.
"The resources belong to us 100%. But depending on what you bring, we can evaluate and say: we'll give 40%, or 45%, or even 50%. And we're done. That's a discussion. But if you don't want to come with the mindset that says 'they are negroes, we'll take what we want,' that doesn't work" .
The old model was simple. A foreign company arrives, extracts the gold, the uranium, the cotton, and leaves a fraction behind. The contract is written in a language the community cannot read. The profits leave the country before the ink dries. The master's spirit is not a metaphor. It is a business model.
Traoré is saying that model is finished. "If he comes with the master's spirit, no longer wanting to treat slaves, we'll throw him out. And it's over. But if you want to be treated intelligently without ulterior motives, we discuss. The contract is clear. If you step out of the contract, we tell you to go back home. It's respect for our sovereignty, our independence. That is very important" .
This is not anti-foreign. It is pro-negotiation, pro soverignity. It is the difference between a partner and a predator. Burkina Faso is open. The terms have changed.
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I lived here in 2017 between October and December.
This is Pipeline Estate, Nairobi.
I had become so broke that I couldn't live in Nyayo Estate, where I had rented a 2-bedroom house, Gate B.
Baba had just lost an election, and on 26th October, Uhuru was re-elected in a sham "birthday party election."
I had put all my hopes and dreams in Baba's victory because I knew I was going to be appointed to a plum job in government.
But after Baba lost, everybody left. Baba himself was abandoned by people close to him. He was so lonely and depressed.
Only Saitabao Ole Kanchori took the role of giving Baba company. The rest took off. They crawled back when Baba had a handshake with Jameson.
Living here in Pipeline gave me a reality check. I had never seen such an indignified ecosystem.
My Ka-small cubicle was on the 7th floor. There is no lift. The eight tenants on that floor shared a toilet and a bathroom tucked at the corner of the floor's extreme corridor.
If you get to your house in the evening and forget to buy a matchbox, you'd rather drink a mug of water, accept the situation and sleep till the next morning.
If you walk leisurely and casually along the narrow, wet, muddy footpaths beside the sewer rivulets, a random tenant will pour kitchen effluent on your head, and that ruins the day for you.
This is an experience I will never forget.
In December, I relocated to my village and started life afresh.
I vowed never again would I live that life.
I fixed my life; I was obese, and I lost weight, regained my health, fortified my mental frame and became the best version of myself.
I took my experiences and successes and turned them into lessons for helping others out of their pain.
There are Kenyans living in squalor. They smile, but inside them is a whole funeral.
Unless you walk in their shoes, you will never understand their experiences.
You will mock them, call them names, but the people living in these places deserve better lives.
Lessons I learnt:
• Politics will never change your life. It is you who can change yourself.
• Politicians are buddies; it is you and me who insult each other.
• There is no dignity in poverty. Every Kenyan deserve a good house, good healthcare and an equitable share of national resources.
• You have massive potential. You can become the best version of yourself. Don't doubt yourself.
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After a third election victory, it would have been easy to spend this occasion celebrating our achievements. I felt we owed Barbados an honest conversation about the future.
Our mindset matters. Our behaviour matters. How we treat one another, take responsibility and follow through will help determine how far this country can go.
Your Government must do its part. I am asking every Barbadian to recognise the part that is theirs.
This is serious business. We are building the country our children will inherit.
Commit to Barbados. Commit to being Bajan Strong. Let us finish the job.
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Egypt is the most revealing case of all.
Ancient Egypt, with its pyramids, its philosophy, its mathematical precision, its medicine, its legal systems, its art that still stops people in museum halls, is acknowledged as one of the great civilizations of human history.
And for most of Western academic history, it was also systematically, carefully, persistently de-Africanized.
Ancient Egyptians were depicted as lighter than the evidence suggests.
The obvious geographical and cultural connections to the rest of Africa were minimized.
The Nile Valley civilizations that predated the dynastic period were underdiscussed.
Cheikh Anta Diop spent his career arguing that ancient Egypt was an African civilization.
Not Mediterranean. Not racially ambiguous. Not a separate category inserted between "real" Africa and "real" civilization.
African.
The reaction from Western academia was not engagement.
It was dismissal. It was decades of institutional resistance. It was the particular fury of a field that had built its understanding of the ancient world on the careful, necessary, structurally load-bearing separation of Egypt from the continent it sits on.
Because if Egypt is African, then the sentence "Africa had no civilization before Europe arrived" doesn’t just need revision.
It becomes incoherent.
Not just false, but the precise inversion of the truth.
And not just about one dynasty or one period but about the foundational story of Western civilization itself, which drew substantially from Egyptian knowledge in mathematics, medicine, architecture, philosophy.
Which means Western civilization did not bring knowledge to Africa.
It learned from it.
The mummies are still there.
The DNA studies have complicated every clean narrative.
Diop’s work has been increasingly vindicated by genetic and archaeological evidence.
The resistance continues anyway.
But the instinct, the deep structural instinct to separate the civilization you want to celebrate from the continent you needed to be empty, that instinct shaped the field for generations.
You cannot claim the pyramids and also claim the continent that built them had no history.
You cannot do both with a straight face.
They tried anyway.
ALT Pharaoh Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (reigned c. 2055–2004 BCE). An African king of the Nile Valley who reunified Egypt and founded the Middle Kingdom more than 4,000 years ago. This is not a modern reconstruction. It is an original ancient Egyptian statue, discovered at Deir el-Bahari in 1900. Long before European colonialism, Africa had already produced one of the greatest civilizations in human history. Egypt was African. Its pharaohs were African. Its history is African history. Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 36195).
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A stolen watch doesn't become yours just because you pass it down to your children. So why apply a different rule to stolen labour, wealth and land?
Reparations are about inherited benefit and inherited loss. Time doesn't erase injustice.
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The lie about Africa was not a small lie carelessly told.
It was a structural lie, deliberately constructed, institutionally maintained, academically defended.
It required the renaming of things. Egypt became, in the Western imagination, not quite African. The pyramids became a "mystery," because the alternative was crediting Africans with their construction, which the framework could not accept.
It required the discrediting of Arab and African scholarship about African history.
It required the dismissal of oral traditions as legend rather than history.
It required deciding that writing on paper counted as "civilization" and other forms of knowledge transmission did not.
It required, essentially, redesigning the criteria for what counted as "civilization" so that the places being colonized would fail the test.
The test was not neutral.
The test was written to produce a specific result.
And that result was: "Africa has no history worth the name."
Therefore what colonialism destroyed was not civilization. Therefore what colonialism did was not destruction.
This is not an accusation of individual ignorance.
This is a description of institutional architecture, built over centuries, maintained by people who understood exactly what it was for.
#FixingTheNationNTV on @NTVKenya @EricLatiff @MariamBishar @fellariswambui
Je,tunaweza kurekebisha Kiswahili chetu Jumamosi kuanzia 6Am to 10Am tukiwa na Nuhu Bakari na Munene Nyaga? Hasa kwa kuwa sasa tuna wenye nyumba na wenye runinga nyumbani kwa takriban siku 90. @TAIFALEO
#OCTOBERFEST
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Please clarify if COVO is in Kahawa Sukari along the Service lane towards Kahawa wendani on Thika Road.
#TheBoss
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Thank the Registrar for a free Judicial Process lesson. Much appreciated 👍🏿
#TheBoss
@thejam984 @JuneGachui if Mwenye Nchi is the Boss why do elected, nominated, appointmented, employedpublic servants become very angry and arrogant when questioned of there performance? Mbona
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Same classroom. Same classmates. Two different reactions.
The teacher refused to fight anger with anger and still wins the room.
Detachment(2011)🎥
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Le summum de la « débauche » politique en Norvège !
Préparez-vous au choc… La présidente du Parlement norvégien, Eva Kristin Hansen, a démissionné et présenté ses excuses au peuple, à cause d’un « crime » impardonnable !
Imaginez un peu… Madame a utilisé un appartement de 50 m² (oui, un simple salon et une chambre !) appartenant à l’État.
La loi chez eux autorise l’occupation de ce logement uniquement si votre domicile se situe à plus de 40 kilomètres du Parlement… mais le « scandale » retentissant, c’est que sa maison se trouvait à seulement 29 kilomètres !
Autrement dit, elle aurait fait perdre à l’État « environ 11 kilomètres » de dignité politique !
Le plus drôle et triste à la fois :
• Non seulement elle a démissionné, mais elle a aussi annoncé qu’elle rembourserait de sa propre poche la « perte » causée à l’État.
• À titre d’information : la Norvège possède un excédent financier dépassant 1 300 milliards de dollars… et malgré cela, ils lui ont demandé des comptes pour un appartement de 50 m² et 11 kilomètres de différence !
Chez nous, si le domicile d’un responsable se trouvait à 29 mètres de son bureau, il demanderait peut-être un hélicoptère pour éviter les embouteillages du trottoir, et on le considérerait quand même comme un « grand homme d’État dévoué »
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Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Thomas Sankara was assassinated on this day in 1987, 3 months after calling on African countries to not pay back debt to European countries and institutions such as the IMF and World Bank:
‘I would like this conference to clearly declare that we cannot pay this debt…just to avoid being assassinated individually. If Burkina Faso is the only one to refuse, I won’t be at the next conference.’
On this day in 1987, Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Marxist revolutionary Thomas Sankara was killed in a coup backed by NATO intelligence services. Here are his achievements in his short 4 years in power:
- Vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– Initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– Planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– Built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– Appointed women to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– Outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of women’s rights
– Redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
- Increased education spending: Government education expenditure rose by 42% between 1983 and 1987.
- Increased healthcare spending: Public health expenditure rose by 27% between 1983 and 1987, according to research by economist Emmanuel Harsch and other scholars.
- Expanded rural healthcare: By January 1986, more than 7,460 primary health posts had reportedly been established across Burkina Faso, approximately one per village.
- Expanded access to drinking water: The revolutionary government constructed 600 wells and 1,100 boreholes in 1986, alongside investment in small dams and irrigation.
- Accelerated road construction: Burkina Faso reportedly built an average of 106 km of paved roads annually, compared with an average of 59 km annually during the preceding 23 years, an increase of approximately 80%.
- Increased cereal production: Annual cereal production rose from approximately 1.12 million tonnes in 1983 to 1.64 million tonnes in 1987, an increase of roughly 46%.
He was assassinated in a coup led by Blaise Compaoré, a man who Sankara considered a brother before their relationship deteriorated. Compaoré betrayed the revolution, and reversed the country’s revolutionary direction, putting the chains of foreign neocolonial dependence back on Burkina Faso.
With the arrival of Captain Ibrahim Traore to power, Burkina Faso once again has changed course back onto the revolutionary path.