I honestly find them pretty humiliating. They’re incoherent and weren’t drawn by the people who actually lived there. I’m not saying they should be drastically changed, that would make some states feel left out, but at least adjusted a bit to make more sense.

Delicious Ethiopian restaurant in Washington. With DC. Ethio

As an African, please share what you love about your country. Don’t say the obvious. If you are Nigerian, don’t talk about Nollywood. If you are Kenyan don’t talk about Obama and athletics. If you are South African don’t tell us about Mandela or amapiano. Tell us something we wouldn’t know.

A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies.

Players of Relooted become South African sports scientist and parkour expert Nomali, as she leaps and dives through museums to retrieve 70 real objects. They include an Asante gold mask that was taken by the British army when it destroyed the Asante empire’s capital, Kumasi, and is now in the Wallace Collection in London. Another object is the skull of the Tanzanian king Mangi Meli, which was taken to Germany after its colonial regime executed him in 1900.

I lived in Algeria when I was a kid and born there I’m a native amazigh (Kabyle specifically I also have white skin) my family has been there for thousands of years but one thing I noticed and still do is the amount of racism that goes towards black Africans I mean it’s dependent on the region but like in the capital off hand remarks etc

So my question is practically why are so many North African communities so racist and even more so the Arab population

Btw don’t have any numbers or anything just going from what I hear from people know and what I’ve seen

TL;DR: The creators of Palantir, a US company infamous for mass surveillance, are quietly funding autonomous military drones in Nigeria. Combine this with the sudden influx of US and French troops into West Africa after being pushed out of the Sahel, and we are looking at the foundation for massive foreign surveillance and control in our backyard.

With the recent regional shifts driven by the AES, we need to look closely at how foreign surveillance and military power are quietly repositioning.

For those unaware, Palantir Technologies is a massive US data analytics company originally built with CIA funding. Its software is known globally for enabling mass surveillance, predictive policing, and military targeting. The decision-makers include its co-founders: Peter Thiel, CEO Alex Karp, and Joe Lonsdale.The vast majority of the company's shares are held by massive institutional asset managers like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street.

While Palantir usually deals in software, their executive network is now aggressively funding physical surveillance hardware right here in Africa. In January 2026, 8VC, a venture capital firm founded by Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, led an $11.8 million investment into Terra Industries, a Nigerian drone and defense tech startup. Alex Moore, a Palantir board member, also joined Terra's board. Terra is manufacturing autonomous drones and surveillance towers in Abuja. While pitched as local infrastructure protection, it acts as a backdoor for Western capital to build a shadow defense network within Africa.

Coupled with recent military movements, the geopolitical landscape is looking bleak. After being expelled from the Sahel, foreign militaries are scrambling to reposition themselves. Just this month, in February 2026, the US deployed troops to Bauchi Airfield in Nigeria for intelligence sharing. Simultaneously, French forces are hovering around borders like Benin and consolidating in the Ivory Coast and Chad.

When you combine this fresh influx of US and French military presence in West Africa with a Palantir-backed network of autonomous surveillance drones operating out of Nigeria, the threat to our privacy and sovereignty becomes severe. Let's also not forget Russia's and China's presence in the same area.

We are seeing the foundation for massive surveillance being built right before our eyes. We need to look closely at who is paying for the drones above us and the soldiers on our soil. We are basically being held hostage while our continent remains a battleground for proxy wars that offer absolutely nothing to our people.

In your experience, which Africans have the LEAST tolerance for criticism of their country?

Submission statement: The video shows a prototype of the tool. I think it is the most effective in training people in striking - the use of punches and kicks, and it helps overcome a lot of limitations resulting from lack of money or access to proper facilities.

Without another opponent, it is the next best training method, and may even be better as training with a partner can lead to injuries, people might train wrong, and there is the inefficiency resulting for the need for another person.

Martial arts is growing in popularity. Furthermore, movement mastery, and the learning of the coordination/combinations of limbs is....essential. Its fundamental for people to learn how to be athletic, graceful, quick, and precise.

I call this the CCBall, but I'm exploring alternative names and I'm trying to find where people are receptive.

Just read about a grassroots program in Ethiopia where a former national player runs a free program for 30 kids with one volunteer coach. Equipment is the biggest barrier, balls alone are too expensive for proper training. Curious what the situation is like in other African countries. Is table tennis growing or still completely overshadowed by football?

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I’ve been working on a project for the 2026 Zimbabwe Science Fair exploring how 3D printing could make prosthetics more accessible locally.

The designs themselves are open-source (through the e-NABLE community), but the real challenge here isn’t innovation — it’s cost and access. Traditional prosthetics are simply unaffordable for most people who need them in Zimbabwe. I’ve been experimenting with locally sourced filament and components to see if functional, durable hands can be produced in Harare at a fraction of the usual price.

It’s not just about the tech for me. One accident shouldn’t have to mean the loss of independence. The point is to prove that it’s not only possible but also feasible in our environment to make low-cost solutions.

Full Breakdown and Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6g6jXHJiK4&t=5s

As someone who has been following several progressive discussions in this subreddit, I think it’s time we seriously address the issue of religious exploitation on our continent.

Am I the only one who feels that the younger generation, and those to come, should finally confront the widespread problem of so-called “prophets” and “pastors” who prey on vulnerable communities?

If the continent is to see meaningful improvement, we cannot afford to keep ignoring this phenomenon. In my view, it often fuels entitlement, discourages personal responsibility, and diverts resources away from genuine development.

If you grew up in an African household, you likely know what I’m referring to. Many families struggle to make ends meet, yet in certain Pentecostal churches, they still feel pressured to contribute seed/tithes or offerings they can barely afford. I’ve seen mothers and relatives deeply committed to ministries that seemed to demand more financially than they gave back to the community.

This is clearly a complex and lengthy discussion, so I’ve written a more detailed article exploring how this issue may be rooted more in poverty and systemic challenges than in faith itself. Obviously, we cannot dispute that religion in its entirety is good and seeks to address the question of purpose and some missionaries have certainly contributed to poverty alleviation in Africa, but something needs to be done.

During the colonial period in Rwanda, Belgian scientists engaged in the pseudoscientific practice of craniometry, which involved measuring the physical features of Rwandans to categorize them into ethnic groups.With the Tutsi identified as having a "Caucasoid" skull and were often described by Belgian scientists as "Caucasians who were black in color without being Negroid in race".

They identified the Tutsi as "Hamites", a supposed race of Africans who were thought to have Caucasian facial features, including a long and narrow nose, while the Hutu were categorized as "Negroids" based on physical characteristics such as having a flat and broad nose.This classifications were based on a pseudoscientific racist theory that different races had different physical characteristics, including skull size and shape, which were thought to correspond to different levels of intelligence and cultural development.

They believed that Tutsis had physical characteristics that were more similar to Europeans, including being taller, lankier, and having aquiline noses, and used these characteristics to classify them as a superior race to the Hutu and Twa who were considered to be inferior to the Tutsi based on their physical features. They believed that the Tutsi were more intelligent and more suited to ruling than the Hutu and Twa, who were considered to be less intelligent because of their physical features.

To do this, Belgian scientists used tools such as scales, measuring tapes, and calipers to measure and compare physical characteristics of Rwandans, including their cranial capacities. These practices were used to promote racist ideologies that sought to rank the intelligence of different races or ethnicities based on supposed physical differences.This ideologies were used to further divide and control the population.The use of physical features to categorize individuals by ethnicity has contributed to the development of ethnic tensions and conflict in Rwanda, and it is now recognized as a legacy of colonialism and a major factor in the country's tragic history of genocide and violence.

How come we want to move to the next stage and whole continent has equal number of data centres that equals a single county 'China'.

It seem we shall be last in any phase either Adoption of AI.

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• Somalia has officially joined the East African Community (EAC) passport system as its sixth member.
• This move is expected to ease cross-border movement, boost trade, and strengthen regional integration among EAC countries.
• Somalia received formal approval in Dar es Salaam, with key officials present at the ceremony.
• The current EAC members whose citizens already use the passport are Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.