Guys let's discuss a little... It's really difficult to get your business up and running when you are foreigner here in #Burundi if you do not take time to understand that we are a conservative society. 😊 I remember back in Kampala how I was stupidly acting like I wanted food to taste like in Buja

https://mobile.twitter.com/iMitwe/status/1332777043491217421

which is a common behavior for human but more acute for Burundian. Every foreigner would ask me :"Since you have been to this country X, have you eaten X?"

Apparently the Mobile money agents in #Bujumbura are more reliable than ATM 😂. They work 24/7 with all banks... Imagine. #Burundi Considering ATM branches are closing in some neighbor countries... I am eager to see the change that will happen soon in #Burundi once Bi-switch is operational

8/n #Burundi After yesterday's thread, a lot have asked me my take on "mentorship/accompagnement" for youth in this IT industry and I have my bit of opinion on this. Again, as I said, you need to understand the mindset here: a young trainee will come to you the Burundian way 9/n We @UbuViz have been running a program for over 2 years where we take in interns from different universities of #Bujumbura and teach them the basics of professional programming. Most of them never come up with their own ideas 🤷. That's the #Burundi-an way 😎 😂.

1/n #Burundi If you are a "start-up" Burundaise let me give you practical solutions that can help you last in this #Bujumbura quagmire. Trust me, I have years of making the same mistakes in here. First you need to understand the mindset here : 2/n Try not to seek funding for your idea if you don't even have an MVP( Minimum Viable Product). The Burundian funder will surely want the ownership of your product since he will consider that he funded your idea! Your idea unfunded was shits 🤣! #Burundi

1/6 #Burundi last week I met umupoil wumujeune twize hamwe qui fait du Wasili. Sur le trajet il me dit comment soir avuza muri live band, le matin agakora Wasili. Akibitangura aba homies bamutwenga, but always drunk from his money. Turatwenga how stupid youth can be sometimes 2/6 #Burundi but aussi we laughed kuko twibutse ukuntu bivugwako abapoils bambere batanguye gukora dans les sociétés de gardiennage ont été copieusement injuriés et moqués à l'université du Burundi mais maintenant uronse n'ako kazi hoho urashimira Imana. Burundian are jugemental

1/3 It's just that there is not enough training material to make it "fair". In general, since 2014, I personally participate in most online surveys so that as a Black person I can introduce our perspective in those polls for balancing their stereotypical views. Especially...

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1273325516754386945

2/3 on all sorts of Machine learning bias against peoples of color, you can get a summary on how to address that with @DataSciBae

In Roma, we line up 1 meter between one each other to enter a supermarket. This rona is teaching us civility #Italy Then a brother come along wearing a Chernobyl make 😂😭 like this one👇. I looked up in his eyes and we clearly understood that this nigger was trolling. We laughed 😂. Why do black people always do something extra?

I disagree.
Ever seen some of my peoples showing off with money on social media? Most of them, from my experience, would go bankrupt whenever they have a medical emergency, family emergency... Most of the financial literacy I have were acquired last 3 years, ... 1/n

https://twitter.com/namusefully/status/1163269464894447616

2/n there used to be a columnist named John Cheese, describing that, how being poor make you develop bad habits: ontd-political.livejournal.com/9205541.html?p…