Kofi Yeboah
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For many Facebook users in Africa, once the platform is "down", the assumption is that the entire internet is down. Majority of folks think Facebook is the internet. That's the problem when Facebook tries to "connect" the unconnected in developing countries.
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Kenyans are literally reporting and asking
@Twitter
to take down any tweet shared with violent suggestive images. This is how you curb international media facilitated misinformation. 👍🏾
#KenyanElection2022
#kenyaelections2022
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Dear Kenyans, all I just want to say to you is that, the current president of Ghana started his presidency by preaching the African sovereignty rhetoric, using Macron as a decoy. Today, the economy of Ghana is worse due to mismanagement and poor economic decisions.
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This
#Flutterwave
issue should not have any impact on the resilience of the Nigerian startup ecosystem. It’s a company, not an ecosystem, scandal. There’s been several similar scandals in the US and Europe but it didn’t shake the confidence of VCs in these regions.
The
#flutterwave
scandal is just beginning. There's more to come. This could cast a large shadow over Nigerian tech and valuations.
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This
@thecontinent_
’s piece by
@simonallison
is the most realistic piece I have read on the AI narrative in Africa. He cuts through the ‘AI hype’ to highlight how these western AI technologies being deployed in Africa don’t reflect the needs of Africans, including languages, etc.
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It took a resilient team, a good lawyer and international media, not the government of Ghana, to push for fair compensation.
Yes, tech companies will create jobs in Africa but when they unfairly treat employees, your government won't come to your aid. You are on your own.
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The new High Commissioner of Zambia to Australia,
@eliasmunshya
, wore the traditional Siziba skirt and top as he presented his credentials. It’s just beautiful 🤗
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In Ghana, citizens can beat up a man who is caught sleeping with another man because we have a
@LSEnews
educated MP,
@samgeorgegh
, fuelling such hatred towards sexual minorities in Ghana. There will be more casualties when the anti-LGBTQI bill he is sponsoring is passed.
Area boys to catch Hayford for Game Center 🥹🥹 ow slow
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Skating in Ghana is now considered a homosexual activity and you have a media house like
@tv3_ghana
amplifying this unfounded claim.
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I respect Prof. Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh for ignoring all the insults and threats in order to fight against the horrendous anti-LGBTQ bill proposed in Ghana. Really proud of her effort. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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These past few days, my advocacy against the anti-LGBTQ bill in Ghana has generated more online threats and hate messages but these can’t be compared to the severity of threats, via social media comments, made against the eminent Prof. Takyiwaa Manuh. She needs to be protected.
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When Twitter opened its first Africa office in Ghana, the government of Ghana politicized the news and publicly supported their presence but when Twitter “illegally” terminated the contracts of the employees, the government has been mute and has not provided any protection.
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Announcing my latest research report.
It examines inclusive ways that
governments, civil society groups, technology companies, etc. in Africa can use to develop and deploy/implement AI systems, policies and national AI strategies.
Full report here -
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The silence of the Lord’s generals in Ghana on the galamsey issue is louder than their LGBTQI threat - asking their church members to vote against the president if he doesn’t pass the anti-LGBTQI bill.
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There’s a clear indication that winning the presidency in Nigeria and Ghana is more of a personal achievement to the candidates than improving the country’s economy and the lives of its citizens. There’s no urgency to serve the people.
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The reason The Church of Pentecost Ghana is “deviating” from its core theological position of “winning souls” to actively participating in addressing socio-political issues is to “capture the state” as rightly said by
@JustNanaAma
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@paulatsu2323
When we said this job creation won’t be very significant, we were tagged as ignorant 💁🏾♂️ Very concerned about the current great team in Ghana.
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My dear experts from Africa, stop speaking at forums for free. You’re making the work too difficult for some folks. Passion is not a currency used in paying bills.
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To media houses like
@tv3_ghana
, the whole LGBTQ debacle is an opportunity to generate clicks. So instead of having a constructive and balanced conversation, they keep promoting and interviewing a bunch of anti-gay activists to spew sensational and unintelligible messages.
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Amazing to see my colleague
@Abebab
selected to be part of UN's high-level advisory body on AI. Congratulations, Abeba!
More info here -
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AI investment will not significantly benefit Africa as touted but Big Tech companies and multilateral organizations will make significant gains under the disguise of “AI for development in Africa.”
aii, let's do this... AI/ML version
what’s your critical hot take on AI/ML that would have you in this position
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We are looking for an Advocacy Lead - East and Southern Africa - to join our Africa Innovation Mradi team at
@mozilla
.
Apply if interested or share with your community.
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If Elon can suspend journalists from Twitter, and EU and congress cannot do anything about it, imagine where African journalists will ask for support if their accounts get suspended for similar reasons.
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Let's celebrate Prof. Dr. Marylin Addo (and her team), a German-Ghanaian physician and Head of Infectious Diseases at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf for leading her team to search for a vaccine against
#Coronavirus
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Elon says anyone who doesn’t pay the $8 is basically a bot and their tweets will not be elevated to the top of the timeline. What this means is that, majority of African journalists, activists, etc. who can’t subscribe will have their voices not heard. Welcome to free speech!
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It seems there’s a well coordinated virtual and offline disinformation against LGBTQ communities and it’s supporters in Ghana. Folks, including very reputable journalists, who are anti-gay share the same fear mongering messages - they are after our children, etc.
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Canadian Professor,
@luke_stark
, has rejected $60,000 research funding from Google to stand in solidarity with
@timnitGebru
. This is impressive!
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@that_bloke_kiri
Haha! Unlike Kenyans and Nigerians, Ghanaians like to keep our issues within and the government is good at setting the narrative about its performance.
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For many of you outside Africa, the closure of Twitter might be a downtime for you or an opportunity to explore other alternative platforms. For most Africans, this will be the end of strong civic participation in democratic governance.
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Can AI be regulated? Prof.
@j2bryson
argues that “let’s not talk about what AI is. Let’s talk about how do you govern the manufacturing of software. We can go through an account to see if it was done accurately, legitimately and with due diligence.” Great podcast by
@taylor_owen
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Hi Twitter folks, let's show support for Alice Amega, a young Ghanaian lady who has been accepted by
@UniofOxford
to study Master’s in Education (Comparative and International Education). You can invest in her life here - or RT to support.
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Part of the story that gets untold about this unfair treatment of former employees of Twitter in Africa is the silence of the current government of Ghana who facilitated and publicly celebrated the presence of the company in Ghana.
🇬🇭🧵1/9 It's been a year since X, formerly known as Twitter, fired almost all its staff at its only Africa office without severance pay, following the abrupt termination of their appointment by new owner Elon Musk. Here’s a thread on what’s happened since then.
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We’ve all got to agree that Meta, Twitter and TikTok usually don’t approach elections in Africa with the same rigorous measures to curb disinformation as they do in American or European elections. Rather, they provide us with “inferior” solutions. Kenya’s election is a test.
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Great meeting the Moroccan ambassador to Ghana,
@ImaneOuaadil
, to discuss "AfCFTA on Wheels", an initiative focused on building the capacity of grassroot SMEs to benefit from
#AfCFTA
. Thank you, your excellency, for hosting us and sharing the rich story of Morocco.
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.
@tv3_ghana
really needs some serious social media training. Your responsibility as a media house is to highlight the danger associated with this, instead, you chose to create humour out of this for the purpose of going viral.
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A new study indicates that Nigerian Christians who migrate to the UK have a shift in perspective on “reliance” on God - “higher reliance on themselves in Britain and a heightened exercise of their deciding power over their religious lives and other aspects of their existence”
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@kwazibruce
Hehe! Following the footsteps of Addo Dee and speaking about African sovereignty at international forums but always Macron is the easiest one to use for this.
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Dear
@Joselyn_Dumas
, check out the love designs on your eyebrows in this artwork designed by my cousin,
@Stephen_Afreh
. 😍😍
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@FBDompreh
At the end of the day, it’s a matter of geographical business priority. So, there might be many inactive employees in the US but Africa will let go because it hadn’t been a priority.
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Shortage of doctors in Africa, due to migration to rich countries, compels some medical trainees in countries like Kenya and Uganda to rely on YouTube videos to perform procedures such as the caesarian section, without any supervision.
Full story published by
@thecontinent_
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The building of schools, hospitals, prisons, etc. by the ‘church’ in Ghana is not solely for socio-economic purposes but to accumulate enough power to command a listening ear by any government in power.
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My biggest worry is how almost everyone trusts that the responses provided by ChatGPT is accurate but it’s not. It’s clear that the data it feeds on is limited and skewed and we seem to trust that. How did we get here??
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@JustNanaAma
For those ignorantly supporting the anti-gay bill, they will realise their stupidity later because we will see lots of people falsely accused and possibly arrested or beaten based on mere suspicion of “acting” or “looking” like a gay.
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Surprising to hear that Rebecca Enonchong (
@africatechie
) has been arrested, without a warrant, in Cameroun. Rebecca is one of the finest brains on the continent who advocates for digital rights in Africa.
African political leaders must grow up! This is petty!
#FreeRebecca
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We will keep talking about it and lives will still perish. Until an influential person dies, not action.
#CitiCBS
#PrayForKotoko
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Being provided a ticket, accommodation and food is not enough compensation for the quality of knowledge you will be sharing.
My dear experts from Africa, stop speaking at forums for free. You’re making the work too difficult for some folks. Passion is not a currency used in paying bills.
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Exciting to see my article, "How AI is transforming Africa’s political landscape", featured in
@AfricaDemocracy
's latest publication on "Digital Technologies, Politics and Society". Other writers featured include
@JulieOwono
@Nanjala1
@HassanIdayat
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Doing a Ph.D comes with a lot of frustration. It’s like writing an assignment, but for 4 years. It’s all about patience and perseverance. It’s less about knowledge... It’s more about talking and understanding each other (supervisor and student) - Prof. Kraehmer
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Congratulations once again to the co-founders of these innovative Ghanaian social enterprises -
@Goldkeys
and
@mPharmaHealth
for winning the
@SkollFoundation
award 2019 ($1.5M each). Fellow Ghanaians, please honour these folks 👏👏👏👏
#SkollWF
Photo Credit:
@SkollFoundation
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Opportunity for Kenyans and Kenyan-based folks:
@Mozilla
seeks a part-time Fellow to support the expansion of the RCS Challenge in Kenya!
For more details -
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Sharan Slater and the Family watch International folks from the West travel across Africa to teach our African leaders about “Family Values” but the same leaders blame the West for exporting their “unAfrican” culture,
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This is what happens when the system is not fed with the right data.
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Africa seems to be the most "flirtatious" continent ever to exist:
- China - Africa Summit
- Japan - Africa Summit
- Russia - Africa Summit
- US - Africa Summit
- UK - Africa Summit, etc.
All the big players want a piece of the cake except for the owners of the cake.
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Big Tech companies from Silicon Valley running to tell Africans how they can digitally transform the continent for themselves.
Conservatives running to my mentions to explain why McDonalds workers don’t deserve a living wage
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This guy's online forum gave many Tanzanians the ability to speak online without fear. All is about to fall if we don't
#freemaxencemelo
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Facebook’s super efficient AI models designed to detect hate speech approved 20 deliberately created hate speech ads, in both Swahili and English, ahead of
#Kenya
’s elections. Here is how western social media companies are NOT preparing for Kenya’s upcoming elections. [THREAD]
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This is a good read!
@timnitGebru
shares her personal stories to help the lay person to not only understand what AI harm means but she emphasizes how this ‘super powerful’ tool is designed by humans and their ethics, not the tool’s, must be questioned.
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“Art is not just about the product; it is also about the process that the artist goes through to create it. Regardless of how elaborate the code or programming is, a computer cannot participate in a dialectic with the viewer.” -
@Nanjala1
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Congratulations to Farida Bedwei for being part of the Young Global Leaders Class of 2016. You've made Ghana proud.
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My dear Kenyans, don’t panic yet. Twitter is experiencing outages internationally. 😊
#KenyaDecides2022
ℹ️ Note: Twitter is experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering
#TwitterDown
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It's important that pilots remain as "pilots" and plane manufacturers should be conscious of this not to create over reliance on computer systems - artificial intelligence, but use it to complement the work of pilots. What do you think
@DaveWallsworth
?
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The Africa team is already small, so you can imagine how this downsize will affect Meta’s response to resolving problems, they either create or are created using their platforms, on the continent.
NEW: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just told employees the company is implementing a hiring freeze, and warned there will likely be more restructuring and downsizing to follow
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Hi
@tylerperry
, happy to see a significant number of people in Accra, Ghana waiting to watch your latest movie - Acrimony at
@SilverbirdGhana
. Keep up the good work.
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It’s very inconsiderate for Meta, parent company of Facebook, to argue that they don’t operate (not a registered company) and trade in Kenya so the Kenyan court has no jurisdiction over their activities. Meanwhile, Meta receives advertising revenues from Kenyans.
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Good to see
@LarryMadowo
and
@McKenzieCNN
highlighting the unacceptable proposed anti-gay bill by Ghana's parliament to criminalize the gay community. It will be good to interview
@wunpini_fm
Ghana is considering an anti-LGBTQ law criticized as "a homophobe's dream" with jail terms of up to 10yrs.
Some churches are threatening MPs who don't support it. Being gay "doesn’t tally well with the Ghanaian mentality and social setup,” MP Rashid Pelpuo told
@McKenzieCNN
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In my latest piece for
@openDemocracy
, I question why the government of Ghana, known for not being silent about employee abuse by foreign companies, was silent on Twitter violating the country’s labour laws.
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I get extremely excited when companies with global footprints hire young Africans, under 35yrs and living in Africa, because of their expertise (not charity hiring) and pay them globally competitive salaries. Let's keep pushing young people even. 💪💪💪
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When this eventually happens, countries in the global south are going to suffer the most without anyone being held accountable.
A very worrying account published by
@thecontinent_
BREAKING: The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans, per BI.
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I was told
#Banff
(
@banffcentre
) is beautiful and no doubt about that. However, the beauty isn't really about the buildings, but the natural environment (pretty mountains). Nature is beautiful. 😊
#nmn
#Selfie
cc:
@JessL
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Dear politicians in Ghana, we vote you into power to create the change your promised. We didn't vote you and your ministers to always compete amongst yourselves. To you, it's politics, to us, it's our future you are joking with.
#CitiCBS
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The state and the church have an interesting relationship in Ghana. They are inseparable and anyone who criticizes that relationship is demonized.
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My lastest article for
@globalvoices
compares Twitter's apparent double sided involvement in
#EndSARS
and
#FixTheCountry
protests that happened in Nigeria and Ghana respectively.
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Evening serene at "Meet Me There Resort", Volta Region. No filter used in the photo.
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Do not miss this grand debate between Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong, Director of
@AfricaHarvard
, and Prof. P.L.O Lumumba, Director of The Kenya School of Law. The debate will be moderated by
@IshaSesay
.
#BomaofAfrica
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Many African Christians today attempt to dismiss the fact that Christianity contributed to discrediting, and to some extent the erasure, of African traditional culture. On the contrary, history proves them wrong. Using Ghana as a case study:
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We can’t build a country based on volunteerism when young people can’t afford their basic needs. When young people have meaningful jobs, they will volunteer without persuasion. Building a country is a significant responsibility of the government.
Growing up we used to have so many Volunteers and Voluntary Groups and Clubs! They were good platforms for nurturing young people and inculcating the community spirit through volunteerism, should we not rekindle the tradition, as we strive to build a new Ghana.
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It was great speaking w/
@LailaHarrak
on
@dwnews
about how Facebook outage affected lives and small businesses in Africa. Facebook's dominance in Africa poses threat to alternative platforms and market choices.
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Thank you
@KofiAshon
and
@Citi973
for having me, via
@zoom_us
, on
#CitiTrends
to discuss such a relevant and timely topic - "How Inclusive are Artificial Intelligence Initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa"
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Excited to finally see my research project on
@UAlberta
's library (
@uofalibrary
) website. The research focused on the state of Artificial Intelligence and Inclusivity via the lens of AI Initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. Here -
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This week in Nairobi,
@Mozilla
’s senior executives - CEO,
@stevetex
, Chief Product Officer, Lindsey, Chief Marketing Officer, etc., are participating in
@mozilla_africa
Mradi Innovation Week as part of Mozilla’s commitment to Africa.
#MozillaAfricaMradi
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Dear Kenyans, this is how Ghana ended up being one of the poor performing economies; several tax hikes by the government, including e-levy on mobile money transactions which saw decrease in revenues and high preference for cash.
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In Africa,
@Google
and
@Facebook
lead the race in building internet infrastructure. My latest piece for
@globalvoices
discusses how this could pose great challenges if there's no comprehensive framework to engage with these tech giants.
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My theory is that, the reason spirituality, in any form, thrives significantly in countries like Ghana is because systems, processes and institutions have proven consistently to be not trustworthy. The alternative is to trust a supreme being, aka God.
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Bright Simons (
@BBSimons
) argues that hyper-integration, not artificial intelligence, blockchain or the concentration of platform power, will impact or shape our society. His argument makes the "disruption-model" obsolete.
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A queer person in Ghana gets lured through a dating app and stabbed multiple times, and a male Ghanaian PhD student studying at
@AbertayUni
tweets saying “he is just being straightened”. Thanks to
@PapaKojoAmpofo
for taking him on.
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The church’s new focus is to dominate - to be able to control and influence the direction of this country. The church interprets this as the church “returning to God’s original mandate to humankind to take dominion as stewards of earth”.
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Ghanaians need a leader who will not measure his/her success based on basic duties - building of schools and hospitals.
#CitiCBS
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Do not be quick to believe or act based on information from social media. Verify the info first before you share.
#GhanaElections
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