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"You can quote me on this. The vast majority of leadership in Africa, the leadership we find in our institutions, I’m not talking about elite 1% of 1% leadership. I’m talking about just leadership in the 20% region. The vast majority of them are moronic. They are morons. Please quote me on it. It’s moronic.
I’m not going to mention names. I once had a conversation with a massive African institution that pretended, or represents, that it’s building infrastructure for Africa. What this person said to me is this: “At this institution, we only do bread-and-butter stuff.”
These people that the Nigerian state has entrusted the future to. Some of these people were educated at the finest universities in the West. I have never heard something more retarded in my life.
India was able to put a rocket on the moon for $80 million. Do you have an idea what that does to the mindset of a young Indian? And this guy says to me, “Here, we only do bread-and-butter stuff.” And these are the people that are supposed to drive us to the 21st century."
Watch the full conversation on The Interview with Iyefu, from Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow.
Meet Osh Agabi @Onikuo, a Nigerian-American computational neuroscientist, bioengineer, and entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Koniku @_koniku, a pioneer of wetware technology in Silicon Valley, and one of the first people in the world to build computer chips that run on living neurons.
Undoubtedly, he is one of the boldest scientific minds to come out of Africa, doing pioneering work in synthetic biology and biocomputing. He began with a bachelor’s at the University of Lagos, then programmed robots at Neuronics in Zurich under the guidance of neuroscientist and roboticist Hansruedi Früh. He went on to become the first researcher to apply Liquid State Machines (LSM) directly to live biological neurons, and to do research at ETH Zurich and Imperial College London. His journey culminated in Koniku, the company he now runs from California.
Currently, he leads Koniku, tackling one of the hardest problems in sensory technology, which is detecting and digitising smell, by building a new class of processors called BPUs (Biological Processing Units) that run on living neurons.
For the second episode of Zeitgeist Now: The Interview, I sat down with Osh for an insightful conversation on topics from the importance of imagination in technology, to Africa’s need to create foundational technology, to what it takes to build a computer out of living neurons and why the next great leap in computing may come from biology. The episode drops on November 12th.
Link in the comments. Pre-save the premiere.
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2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, still 26 years old, is back on top 100 today for the first time in 18 months.
She won 14 of her last 15 matches and reached three consecutive finals in the last four weeks.
Won 3 titles (two WTA 125, one 60k) and reached two other finals in 2026.
Just great to see.
chai
Alwan: Take your phone and call 112. Nobody knows about this. We used to hear about it in America. Put it on speaker Seun. Welcome to Nigeria.
@seunokin: It’s not working. Maybe this is one of you people’s promises that is not fully functional. You have a long list of non-functional promises…
Alwan: This is why we are asking for more time 💀💀💀
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Count 'em up. 📈
All 26 goals from Messi's Golden Boot winning season. ✨
@InterMiamiCF // Golden Boot pres. by Audi
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Oga drop name and hospital
Maybe you think to bag FWACS for orthopedic na beans that he would risk it for 2.5m
