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African Born, World Raised
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My face is up at the Bristol Business School @UWEBusinessSch. Not sure what I did to deserve this😅. Honoured and humbled 🙏🏾.
Shadows at Midnight
RS26
Design & Photography by yours truly
Yaoundé, Cameroon via Lagos, Nigeria, etc.
The world building of the book was…interesting (derogatory).
The world building in the movie seems just as interesting (also derogatory).
How the fuck did a book rooted in Yoruba culture become another Wakanda-inspired mess? The exaggerated costumes, the generic African accents. I’m so tired of Hollywood treating Africa like one big fictional kingdom. If you can’t respect the source material, leave it alone.
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Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
📺On November 11, 1960, CBS aired ‘The Twilight Zone’ episode ‘Eye of the Beholder,’ in which a woman lying in a hospital bed with her head wrapped in bandages awaits the outcome of her 11th and final state-approved surgery, a last-ditch attempt to make her look ‘normal’ in a society that demands conformity in appearance.
Written by Rod Serling, the episode featured Donna Douglas as the unmasked Janet Tyler and is widely regarded as one of the series’ best episodes
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Nigeria lost their opening game at the U-17 Women's World Cup but still went on to lift the trophy 🇳🇬🏆
If you like, give up.
The quotes/replies to this are EXACTLY why pre-colonial African history/art/culture should be mandatory in all schools.
Tribal exceptionalism is an extremely flawed ideology.
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Canva is laying off 22% of its workforce which is 1271 employees, and this is what their CEO said.
We need more founders like thissss.
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Same mistake blackberry made with BBM. By the time they got around to dropping the elitist gatekeeping, they'd been left behind
Americans don't use WhatsApp because of a decision Apple made in 2013. We only know about it because the emails came out in court, and the whole thing came down to keeping your kids off Android.
It started with Eddy Cue, the guy who runs Apple's services. That April he emailed the team saying Apple really needed to put iMessage on Android. Google was reportedly trying to buy WhatsApp for $1 billion at the time, and Cue's pitch was that Apple already had the best messaging app, so why not make it the one the whole world used.
Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief, shut it down.
He asked how Apple was supposed to get Android users to leave WhatsApp when they didn't even have iPhone friends. So back in 2013, the guy running iPhone software was basically admitting WhatsApp already owned everybody who didn't have an iPhone. Then he got to what he was actually worried about. iMessage on Android would remove "an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones."
Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime marketing boss, backed him up in another email thread in 2016, writing that putting iMessage on Android would hurt Apple more than help it. None of this was public until Epic sued Apple and the emails got pulled into evidence in 2021.
Now look at what that does to WhatsApp. The entire reason WhatsApp exists is that it works on any phone, so it wins wherever group chats are a mix of iPhones and Androids. Apple went the other direction on purpose. For years, every Android user in an American group chat showed up as a green bubble and their videos came through blurry, and the fix everybody landed on was buying another iPhone.
Tim Cook pretty much said this out loud in 2022. A reporter at a conference told him he couldn't send videos to his mom because she had an Android, and Cook told him to buy his mom an iPhone.
And it worked about as well as anything Apple has ever done. Nearly 9 in 10 American teenagers own an iPhone, and iPhones were 75% of phones sold at the big three US carriers in early 2026. If almost everyone you text has the same phone, an app whose whole selling point is working across phones has nothing to offer you.
Worldwide, Apple only sells about 1 in 5 phones. Most of the world's group chats stayed mixed, so they ended up on the one app that ran on everything, and WhatsApp blew past 3 billion users. Meta says more than 100 million Americans use it now too.
Apple finally added RCS texting with Android in 2024 and turned on encryption for it this May, and they still kept those messages green.
Apple basically let WhatsApp have the rest of the planet so it could keep American teenagers.
RS26 Shadows at Midnight
Model: Maryline Djimranger
Design & photography: Alexander Akande
Yaoundé, Cameroon.
One player led BOTH teams in pts, rbs, ast in 2015.
Same player led BOTH teams in pts, rbs, ast, stl, blk in 2016.
Same player led his team in pts, rbs, ast 7 times in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020.
That player was NOT Steph.
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Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
At every stop of his career, LeBron James has made handshakes with stars.
But he's also made them with role players, two-way players, and rookies.
With team staff, locker room staff, and photographers.
"His superpower is making everybody feel important"
inquirer.com/sixers/lebron-j…
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Patrick Stewart, who will be remembered most for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, has died at 86.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/pat…
Someone put the “Ether” beat over this
Abdul El-Sayed: “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used the bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool”
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