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Femi Longe and the architecture of African liberation

Eddie Jeff — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:16:16 +0000

The radical Pan-African vision of Lumumba, Sankara, and Nkrumah is being resurrected through financial technology. Spearheaded by Femi Longe at the Human Rights Foundation, the Bitcoin Development Fund is systematically resourcing African developers to dismantle colonial monetary systems like the CFA franc. This decentralized economic resistance is continuing the unfinished struggle for absolute continental sovereignty.

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Africa Bitcoin Day 2026: Eight cities, ten days, one continental refusal

Eddie Jeff — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:24:32 +0000

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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Finding the African way | The time for putting ourselves first

Al Kags — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:20:47 +0000

Imported Western aid models are failing across Africa because they ignore existing, durable local systems. While costly, six-month donor programs distribute livestock only for projects to collapse upon completion, indigenous "table banking" groups thrive. True African economic modernity isn't found in foreign-backed infrastructure or elusive billionaires, but in cooperative, distributed networks built on community trust and ubuntu.

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The Empire’s war, our Mathree fares: Why the cost of living just exploded

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:24:00 +0000

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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The nine billion dollar tax on love

Eddie Jeff — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:33:21 +0000

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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