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The best business relationships often start with a simple "Hello".
I have met several amazing people such as Executives, Founders, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs here on X, who became partners and friends.
Let's connect and support each other. Mutually beneficial relationships.
Looking to FEATURE some amazing people (Merit-Based) in the next edition of our magazine on the theme, "Africa Re-Imagined".
The African Magazine is all about Empowering Africans and Showcasing Africa!
It's a world class magazine available in 130+ countries, and in 20+ languages.
Simply Follow and DM — I will reciprocate whenever I notice or at my earliest convenience.
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The young people in our @ObamaFoundation Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica.
This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.
Drug Use Ranking By Country.
The most commonly consumed drugs in the world include alcohol and cannabis/marijuana. Although these substances are legal to a certain degree in the vast majority of countries, they can still lead to a number of negative outcomes and health problems if abused. Outside of alcoholic beverages, cannabis is the most widely cultivated possibly illicit drug in the world.
Best Countries to Visit In 2026
If one were to spend a week exploring each of the world’s 193+ countries one at a time, it would take nearly four years to complete the challenge—and much longer if non-sovereign territories were included.
Obviously, most people lack both the free time and the financial wherewithal to accomplish such a journey, so it helps to narrow one’s focus a bit.
While there is no such thing as a country not worth visiting—even the worst countries to visit have something special and unique to offer—some are renowned for their attractiveness to tourists. These are widely considered to be among the world’s best countries to visit.
The time of year is a very important factor when planning a trip. Whether one is visiting one of the world’s most-visited countries or one of the least-visited countries in the world, the weather and attractions available in January will differ significantly from those on offer in June. Here is a list of best countries to visit in 2026.
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The world keeps betting against Africa's middle class.
They keep getting it wrong.
Analysts write the same report every decade. "Africa is too risky." "The consumer base isn't there."
"Infrastructure is the problem." They paste the same poverty statistics.
They recycle the same cautionary tales.
Meanwhile, a quiet economic revolution is happening in plain sight.
Africa's middle class is not emerging. It has emerged.
Tens of millions of households making real purchasing decisions. Buying insurance. Sending kids to private schools. Booking flights. Demanding quality. Building businesses that serve other businesses.
This is not aid-dependent survival. This is market behavior.
The data tells a story global investors refuse to read. Consumer spending across the continent is accelerating. Mobile money transactions are in the billions. Homegrown brands are outcompeting multinationals on their own turf. African founders are building fintech, healthtech, agritech companies that solve problems Western startups cannot even conceptualize because they have never lived them.
Yet the capital does not follow.
Why? Because the perception has not caught up to the reality. Boardrooms in London, New York, and Shanghai still run Africa through a single filter: risk. They see headlines. They do not see receipts.
Here is what they are missing.
The African middle class is not fragile. It is scrappy. It was built without safety nets. Without reliable government support. Without the luxury of failure being consequence-free. That kind of resilience does not produce passive consumers. It produces aggressive ones. People who know the value of a product. People who will pay for quality when it shows up. People who will build the quality themselves if it does not.
That is not a liability. That is the most attractive consumer profile on the planet.
The underestimation is not just an analytical error. It is an expensive one. Every year capital sits on the sidelines waiting for Africa to "stabilize" is a year of compounding returns lost. The investors who moved early into Southeast Asia understood this. The ones who are moving early into Africa now are quietly building positions that will look obvious in fifteen years.
Africa's middle class does not need the world to believe in it.
It is growing either way.
The question is whether the world wants to be part of that story or just read about it later. 🌍
Kaydon retweeted
The “age of consent” is the minimum age at which a person is considered legally competent to consent to sexual acts. A person younger than the age of consent (i.e.: underaged) cannot legally confirm that a sexual act in which they participated was consensual.
To state it another way, in the eyes of the law, they are not yet old enough to consent to sex. As a result, if a person over the age of consent engages in sexual activity with a partner who is underaged, this activity may be considered statutory rape.
In fact, in some jurisdictions, a sexual act can be considered statutory rape even if all participants were underaged.
Countries Where Marriage is Required
In these nations, premarital sex is illegal; the "age of consent" is technically the legal age for marriage.
Afghanistan:18 (m), 16 (f)
Iran: 18 (m), 15 (f)
Kuwait: 17 (m), 15 (f)
Libya: 18 (m), 16 (f)
Maldives: 18
Morocco: 18
Oman: 18
Pakistan: 18
Palestine: 18 (varies)
Qatar: 18 (m), 16 (f)
Saudi Arabia: 18
Sudan: 13 (m), 12 (f)
Yemen: 15
### Age of Consent: 18+
21 Years: Bahrain.
18 Years: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Barbados, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czechia, DR Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece (with exceptions), Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger (authority), Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, US Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Vietnam, Zambia.
### Age of Consent: 17
17 Years: Cyprus, Grenada, Ireland.
### Age of Consent: 16
16 Years: Algeria, American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia (varies), Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Estonia, Fiji, Gibraltar, Guam, Guernsey, Guyana, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Kiribati, Macao, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat, Myanmar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, Turks and Caicos, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe.
### Age of Consent: 15
15 Years: Aruba, Cambodia, Comoros, Curacao, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, North Korea, Reunion, Saint Martin, Slovenia.
### Age of Consent: 14
14 Years: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary (with exceptions), Italy (with exceptions), Portugal (with exceptions), Serbia.
### Age of Consent: 13 and Below
13 Years: Burkina Faso, Japan (raised to 16 in 2023, though some local nuances remain), Niger, South Korea (authority), Spain (authority), Western Sahara.
12 Years: Angola.
### Special Cases (Varies by State/Region)
United States: No federal age. Each state sets its own, ranging from 16 to 18.
Mexico: Varies by state law.
Australia: Varies by state (mostly 16, though 17 in some territories).
Kaydon retweeted
The best business relationships often start with a simple "Hello".
I have met several amazing people such as Executives, Founders, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs here on X, who became partners and friends.
Let's connect and support each other. Mutually beneficial relationships.
Looking to FEATURE some amazing people (Merit-Based) in the next edition of our magazine on the theme, "Africa Re-Imagined".
The African Magazine is all about Empowering Africans and Showcasing Africa!
It's a world class magazine available in 130+ countries, and in 20+ languages.
Simply Follow and DM — I will reciprocate whenever I notice or at my earliest convenience.
Contact: ceo [at] theafricanmagazine [dot] com
The “age of consent” is the minimum age at which a person is considered legally competent to consent to sexual acts. A person younger than the age of consent (i.e.: underaged) cannot legally confirm that a sexual act in which they participated was consensual.
To state it another way, in the eyes of the law, they are not yet old enough to consent to sex. As a result, if a person over the age of consent engages in sexual activity with a partner who is underaged, this activity may be considered statutory rape.
In fact, in some jurisdictions, a sexual act can be considered statutory rape even if all participants were underaged.
Countries Where Marriage is Required
In these nations, premarital sex is illegal; the "age of consent" is technically the legal age for marriage.
Afghanistan:18 (m), 16 (f)
Iran: 18 (m), 15 (f)
Kuwait: 17 (m), 15 (f)
Libya: 18 (m), 16 (f)
Maldives: 18
Morocco: 18
Oman: 18
Pakistan: 18
Palestine: 18 (varies)
Qatar: 18 (m), 16 (f)
Saudi Arabia: 18
Sudan: 13 (m), 12 (f)
Yemen: 15
### Age of Consent: 18+
21 Years: Bahrain.
18 Years: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Barbados, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czechia, DR Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece (with exceptions), Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger (authority), Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, US Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Vietnam, Zambia.
### Age of Consent: 17
17 Years: Cyprus, Grenada, Ireland.
### Age of Consent: 16
16 Years: Algeria, American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia (varies), Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Estonia, Fiji, Gibraltar, Guam, Guernsey, Guyana, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Kiribati, Macao, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat, Myanmar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, Turks and Caicos, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe.
### Age of Consent: 15
15 Years: Aruba, Cambodia, Comoros, Curacao, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, North Korea, Reunion, Saint Martin, Slovenia.
### Age of Consent: 14
14 Years: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary (with exceptions), Italy (with exceptions), Portugal (with exceptions), Serbia.
### Age of Consent: 13 and Below
13 Years: Burkina Faso, Japan (raised to 16 in 2023, though some local nuances remain), Niger, South Korea (authority), Spain (authority), Western Sahara.
12 Years: Angola.
### Special Cases (Varies by State/Region)
United States: No federal age. Each state sets its own, ranging from 16 to 18.
Mexico: Varies by state law.
Australia: Varies by state (mostly 16, though 17 in some territories).
Note on Romeo and Juliet Clauses: In many of the countries listed above as "18" or "16," legal exceptions exist for partners who are both minors and close in age (usually within 2–4 years). This is common in the US, Canada, UK, and across much of the EU.
A close-in-age exception, also called a restriction by age difference, is a lower age of consent that applies when at least one participant is under the normal age of consent and the other participant is close in age (typically within 3-4 years), such as when a 16-year-old interacts with a 19-year-old. Laws that enable this exception are sometimes called a Romeo and Juliet clause.
Restriction by authority is the age at which a person can consent to sexual relations with an older person as long as the older person is neither in a position of authority over nor abusing/exploiting the younger participant.
Listed ages apply to both heterosexual and homosexual relations unless otherwise noted.
All numerical data shown are minimum ages in years.
アフリカは単なる支援対象ではなく、日本の経済安全保障における最重要パートナーへと変貌している。
日本製品の輸入シェアと、それに対するアフリカの人口動態を分析すれば、将来的な市場規模が欧米を凌駕するのは統計的事実。
日本はアフリカから資源を得る一方で、アフリカは日本の「標準化技術」を吸収することで、インフラ開発のコスト効率を劇的に改善できる。
この非対称な補完関係こそが、従来の同盟関係よりも強固な経済的紐付けを生む。
互いの依存度が加速する今、このパートナーシップの深化は必然。
The world keeps betting against Africa's middle class.
They keep getting it wrong.
Analysts write the same report every decade. "Africa is too risky." "The consumer base isn't there."
"Infrastructure is the problem." They paste the same poverty statistics.
They recycle the same cautionary tales.
Meanwhile, a quiet economic revolution is happening in plain sight.
Africa's middle class is not emerging. It has emerged.
Tens of millions of households making real purchasing decisions. Buying insurance. Sending kids to private schools. Booking flights. Demanding quality. Building businesses that serve other businesses.
This is not aid-dependent survival. This is market behavior.
The data tells a story global investors refuse to read. Consumer spending across the continent is accelerating. Mobile money transactions are in the billions. Homegrown brands are outcompeting multinationals on their own turf. African founders are building fintech, healthtech, agritech companies that solve problems Western startups cannot even conceptualize because they have never lived them.
Yet the capital does not follow.
Why? Because the perception has not caught up to the reality. Boardrooms in London, New York, and Shanghai still run Africa through a single filter: risk. They see headlines. They do not see receipts.
Here is what they are missing.
The African middle class is not fragile. It is scrappy. It was built without safety nets. Without reliable government support. Without the luxury of failure being consequence-free. That kind of resilience does not produce passive consumers. It produces aggressive ones. People who know the value of a product. People who will pay for quality when it shows up. People who will build the quality themselves if it does not.
That is not a liability. That is the most attractive consumer profile on the planet.
The underestimation is not just an analytical error. It is an expensive one. Every year capital sits on the sidelines waiting for Africa to "stabilize" is a year of compounding returns lost. The investors who moved early into Southeast Asia understood this. The ones who are moving early into Africa now are quietly building positions that will look obvious in fifteen years.
Africa's middle class does not need the world to believe in it.
It is growing either way.
The question is whether the world wants to be part of that story or just read about it later. 🌍
Kaydon retweeted
Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.
On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.
Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.
