Fahngeh 🇱🇷

Right?? I doubt they need motivation at this point. They're just riding on weak laws and rubbish.

Today on The Dark Continent: a 400 yr old man just snuffed out a bit more light...

If anybody had told me that as the world fell apart around us the thing that would make me happier than pink in a rainbow would be TV shows about hotsadbatshitcrazy white men doing stuff...

... I'd say "sounds about right" 🥰

This is the cover for The Continent, dated 27 September 2025, Issue 215. At the bottom, in the center, there is a young man standing inside a cage made of iron bars, symbolizing imprisonment. He faces forward, holding onto the bars, with a barren desert landscape stretching behind him. Oil rigs and a windmill are scattered in the background. Above his head, glowing in pink and purple tones, are two giant screens resembling video game interfaces. They show cartoonish avatars, guns, and reward icons like coins and badges, with the word “REWARDS” prominently displayed. One line of text on the screens reads: “Complete missions to get rewards!” The overall effect links video gaming and digital rewards with imprisonment, echoing the cover story’s title printed at the bottom: “Egypt’s screen to prison pipeline.” It is illustrated by Wynona Mutisi.

All Protocol Observed.

Welcome to Issue 215 of The Continent.

Egypt’s bid to stamp out dissent has created a screen-to-prison pipeline. Children lured through gaming are jailed without trial — on terror charges.

Read it here: bit.ly/TC_215

A nice thing about getting older is you can say, “boy i done seen some shit” and even if you if haven’t actually seen anything, people will mostly take your word for it

Americans saying "what's at stake here is free speech" have really never studied the making of a civil war anywhere in the Global South.

Witchcraft aka African Science is alive and well. I still get annoyed when people say I'm an educated scientist who should "know better" than to believe it. It's simply another way of understanding and manipulating materials.

Welcome to the darker side. I increased mine again this year...after an increase 5 years ago 😌

Yaaay, congratulations 🎊 🏆!

Okayyyyy, America.
Wawu...

Highly worth it 👌🏽

LISTEN.
My brain hasn't wrinkled this hard since... I don't even know. My only quibble is this could've been 6-7 episodes instead of 9. Cuz the red herrings went rainbow at some point.
Excellent 🎯

We can't catch a break under this clown. For so many Africans this is our reality, sending and receiving money between the US and home.

Lilongwe, and how we hold the space we make We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.

I read "Circe" about three years ago. WAWU. Now that's how you write mythology, cuz Lawd knows I'm so over all these rehashings of Greek, Celtic etc lore. (African lore is the exception af cawse 😊)

I'm ready to purge this rainy season. Books I've put off for years, in 2025 I fini ready.

The world is in the toilet. Let the pouring tears and teeth gnashing begin.

🤣🤣😄😆 doing what to that man wife I can't!

I finally made time and started watching Shōgun. Excellent viewing! Maaan white pipo never beating the allegations, the eau de coloniale is top notch 🤣

Is it deluded vanity to say I want whatever treatment these stars do where they disappear for like 5-10yrs and come back with cleaver-clean cheekbones but I only want it if they don't slice your face up?

Cuz it looks hot 🔥

Maybe I just want the makeup...

I thought:
*firing people meant setting them on fire. Thought my Mom burned the housekeepers to death in the backyard

*flying by plane meant you'd gone to heaven

*when people died in movies they died in real life. So all 'dying' roles in Hollywood were only given to actors on their death beds

Every news outlet: "The new Pope Leo is of mixed Italian, French, and Spanish ancestry."

Black people looking at the new pope: "Dis dude look like my uncle Carl."

Say the quiet part out loud, Yt people. THE POPE IS ALSO BLACK 🥳🙌🏽

Congrats Tiah!

Today, my chaotic opinion is that writers should get a free $1000 every year. To keep the "real books made by real humans" concept alive & AI off our backs a little longer.

Keep human writing alive! 💚📚💸📖💰🗞💵✍️🏽

#WorldBookAndCopyrightDay2025

Today, my chaotic opinion is that writers should get a free $1000 every year. A stipend. To keep the "real books made by real humans" concept alive & AI off our backs a little longer.

Keep human writing alive! 💚💸💵💷💶📚

#WorldBookAndCopyrightDay

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My votes for location:
*Nigeria
*Ghana
*Kenya
In that order. This show needs some real chaos, African style.

Mwehn o (good morning), Womble! Rainy season is starting in Liberia and I'm pairing it with some deep reads: JAMES, THE VANISHING HALF & THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT. Lightening it up with MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES

Good morning and America's gonna lose this trade tiff with China so bad becuz remember when we were kids and everybody used to laugh at "fongkong" goods then China (the whole Asia really) went quiet for like 20yrs and when they opened up they FLOODED the world with superior everything?

Yeah 🤭🍿

I HATE Tracee Ellis Ross now. like, why who how is my beautiful lady like this?? how can I predict every shitty upselling word she's gonna say?? Stop this 😫😭

Now they're hijacking her mind to RUN ADS?? And using her neural power to help cool their servers...
I knew it! It's always another and yet another upgrade. Or else. Unholy crap

I HATE HER NOW. like, why who how is my beautiful Tracee like this?? how could I predict every shitty upselling word she's gonna say?? 😫😤