The African Music Industry Captains

@africanmusicHq
| pan African PAC • Captains, Musicians, and Music industry Afficionados | Devotees of African Music | 🎶🎶🎶 |

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

The President of Namibia, Africa 🌍 • Nandi Ndaitwah NdemupeLiLe Netumbo • indLovuKazi 🐘 • AmandLa ‼️ Thanda Wena 🦅 uMama uMKHuLu ‼️🐘 • NoSiZwe • Mother of the Nation
Siyakubonga KangaKaNaNi KHANTi ?
AbantuLand ProperLy Understood
Namibia 🦅

[Gitobu Imanyara @GitobuImanyara]

The President of Namibia speaks for Africa

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

https://t.co/b6aP7mQTZF

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

https://t.co/Is4Fo0nTVs

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

https://t.co/kdk4ZfQwy8

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

A sweet moment with my father and Gospel great, Mahalia Jackson. Music (freedom songs, Gospel, etc) helped power the Civil Rights Movement and was a key component of Personal Commitment, the 3rd step of Nonviolent Social Change. What songs move you to be a positive change agent?

#MLK #MahaliaJackson #Movement #Music

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"we can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist"

—James Baldwin

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

53 years ago today, Roberta Flack released “Killing Me Softly With His Song”

A masterpiece that still touches our hearts today…

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“It hurts to see a black man being used to fight another black man.” — Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso 🇧🇫

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Thomas Sankara 🇧🇫 was a revolutionary African leader and president of Burkina Faso.

He drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.

He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists

Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.
He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists
As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth.
Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87):
– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

"The struggle is always armed because the colonialists and imperialists have already decided to use their arms against you." - Amilcar Cabral, our people are our mountains ❤️💚🖤

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Cheikh Anta Diop, a Senegalese historian and anthropologist, was the African scientist who exposed the truth about the origins of humanity and was hated by Western biologists.

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

https://t.co/YQzccEL1iK

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

https://t.co/naK4yIY0B0

[Cornelius K. Ronoh @itskipronoh]

This is President-elect Yoweri Museveni in 1986. He had promised Ugandans that he would serve for one term. His mission was to end dictatorship. 😂

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Muhammad Ali Recites His Poem 'TRUTH'

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

"Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . ." ~ Amilcar Cabral ❤️💚🖤

[Torraine Walker @TorraineWalker]

We DESPERATELY need to get back to keeping agreements, disagreements and plans of action in house like this.

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

Check out Atiéno Wa Imbuchi! #TikTok https://t.co/9KSEQVxFOa

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

Check out Atiéno Wa Imbuchi's video! #TikTok https://t.co/x3GD4pUki2

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

Check out Atiéno Wa Imbuchi's video! #TikTok https://t.co/pzrhE6i5Oh

[The African Music Industry Captains @AfricanCaptains]

Check out Atiéno Wa Imbuchi's video! #TikTok https://t.co/ytMEGC0Ld5