Africans rising Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/africans-rising/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Tue, 26 May 2026 10:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Africans rising Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/africans-rising/ 32 32 67616479 Africa Bitcoin Day 2026: Eight cities, ten days, one continental refusal https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/africa-bitcoin-day-2026/ https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/africa-bitcoin-day-2026/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 20 May 2026 19:24:32 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574052 Moving across eight cities in seven countries, Africa Bitcoin Day 2026 marks the decentralization of continental monetary resistance. No longer a Western investment story, Bitcoin has become a political tool for financial sovereignty—a mass refusal of colonial extraction, exorbitant remittance fees, and state financial surveillance.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/africa-bitcoin-day-2026/feed/ 0 574052 The Empire’s war, our Mathree fares: Why the cost of living just exploded https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/mathree-fares-hy-the-cost-of-living-exploded/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/mathree-fares-hy-the-cost-of-living-exploded/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 16 May 2026 15:24:00 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574032 For ordinary Kenyans, survival is now a mathematical impossibility. Our mishahara (wages) remain frozen despite token Labour Day increments, the cost of living skyrockets. Rather than offering solutions, the political elite and state pundits weaponize complex economic jargon and global crises to mask systemic domestic failures as unavoidable and tragic acts of nature.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/mathree-fares-hy-the-cost-of-living-exploded/feed/ 0 574032 Dada means sister https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/dada-means-sister/ https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/dada-means-sister/?noamp=mobile#comments Mon, 11 May 2026 18:12:24 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574012 How a Kenyan events planner built Africa's most important Bitcoin school for women, and why the architecture of the classroom matters as much as the lesson.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/dada-means-sister/feed/ 1 574012 The daughter of Togo and the money they cannot seize https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/the-daughter-of-togo-and-the-money-they-cannot-seize/ https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/the-daughter-of-togo-and-the-money-they-cannot-seize/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 06 May 2026 10:55:28 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574003 From Sylvanus Olympio's murder to Farida Nabourema's resistance, sixty years of monetary politics in one West African country, and what bitcoin has changed.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/the-daughter-of-togo-and-the-money-they-cannot-seize/feed/ 0 574003 The nine billion dollar tax on love https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/the-nine-billion-dollar-tax-on-love/ https://thisisafrica.me/bitcoin-in-africa/the-nine-billion-dollar-tax-on-love/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 12:33:21 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573998 Every year, African families pay almost nine billion dollars in fees to send money to each other. Bitcoin has cracked that business model. The diaspora is noticing.

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