Founder, curious cat & mythmaker @thezeitgeistnow

Joined April 2024
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After 5 long years, I’m officially an engineering graduate. BSc Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering, in the bag 🥳
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My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow. “If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people. In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.” Read more 🫶⬇️
Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas". In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow. “If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people. In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.” Read more 🫶⬇️
Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas". In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas". In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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To underestimate an opponent, or to cast them, gratuitously, into some contumely and indiscriminate taxonomy of foolishness, or whatever other convenient species the vocabulary of contempt supplies, is a Wittgensteinian ruler, against you.
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take care, ❤️
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I'm still taking in yesterday. Friends, mutuals and complete strangers amplified my story. I don't take it for granted. Because of you, we're at $3,900+. The road ahead is still long, with $25K due Dec 14 and every share gets me closer gofund.me/5a7dcc6ce
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Hi everyone, I’m Marvellous, some of you know me as Ini. I’m a few months from finishing my MPH at NYU. I planned for this year with a student loan and a summer internship but it didn’t come through. Then this month, MPOWER shut down. I was on their waitlist. #FundDrMarvellous
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Cornrows on an Idoma woman 🤗
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The “fight against anti-intellectualism” on this app is just a bunch of word salad chefs trying to enforce authoritarianism while forgetting the very principles of intellectualism: nuance, critical analysis, context, and individualism. A clear case of “you no go school reach me”
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New piece on my substack about the spatial and socioeconomic ramifications of Banana island and a marginal allusion to Henri Lefebvre. indefinitejest.substack.com/…
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Allow me to reintroduce myself. Engr. Munirat Favour Abdullahi, GMNIMechE,GMNSE, I Am A Mechanical and Production Engineer and the first female (SUG) President of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Nigeria. A cybersecurity analyst and an advocate for women in STEM.
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Cornrows on an Idoma woman 🤗
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The gorgeous Somkele Iyamah at Andrea Iyamah’s 15th anniversary show😍
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The people who position as intellectual people are just very interesting to see. Because you’d think that regardless of the tragedy that Romeo and Juliet is, the theme of love is actually absent.
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Dunning-Kruger wan finish this one 🤣🤣. Olopa of literary exegesis🙂‍↕️
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SHES LITERALLY PERFECT LIKE I NEED HER WTF
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She wants to make cancer care accessible in West Africa. She's $50K away from finishing, with $25K due Dec 14. Let's get her there 🤍 gofund.me/5a7dcc6ce OR GTB 0478643988 Marvellous Inioluwa Oluwadare #FundDrMarvellous
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Follow to see these kinds of discussions. @thezeitgeistnow
3rd-world-country conversation. They will never gather to have discussions about AI, data centres, geopolitics, technological sovereignty, or anything that actually shapes the future. It’s always the lowest-IQ conversations.
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In the 1960s, Côte d'Ivoire was richer than South Korea. Both followed their comparative advantage: Côte d’Ivoire grew cocoa and coffee, South Korea made garments and wigs. In 1973, South Korea pulled ahead, and today it is more than ten times richer. Why could only one of those advantages grow? From Unfair Comparative Advantage, on Zeitgeist Now. Link in the comments
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I need $50,000 to finish my degree, including $25,000 by December 14 to stay enrolled. Else, I could lose my student status. With the current bisa ban on Nigerians, I wouldn’t be able to come back, and everything I’ve worked toward would fall apart. #FundDrMarvellous
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