AfroPickYouUp

Life is to be lived not to have been lived

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

B/c they lived on open grasslands (more arid areas) Afro-Asiatic speakers (esp Semitic) revere the lion - hence Jesus portrayed as the Lion of Judah

Niger-Congo (esp Bantu) moved through the forests and revere the leopard instead - Jesus is the Spotted Leopard (Ingwe Mabalabala)

[EXΛNXC 🇻🇦 @exanxc]

"Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."

-Revelation 5:5

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

the name ekhafu comes from

Other NE DRC/W Kenya Bantu still use Proto-Bantu ngombe

Maasai call cattle inkishu/enkiteng and after they conquered the Cushitic groups they took up these names

Cushitic refugees fleeing Maasai into Rwanda/Uganda took the new names there - Ente/inka

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

I looked this up and apparently the Bukusu call cattle ekhafu same as enkafu in Mashi (Bukavu)

What this does is confirm that I correctly dated the arrival of the Bukusu into Kenya before the Maasai

The Bukusu (same as East DRC) interacted with Southern Cushites - where the 1/n

[Dominic WALUBENGO @waluwande]

The fact that Bukusus and Bagisu share the same word for cows with the Bantus of Bukavu in Eastern DRC cannot just be a coincidence. Bukusus also have a name for pygmies.

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

@KO6o0n They were mostly right and genetics (plus archeology) backed the linguistics

Eg archeology shows an arrival of iron workers (into East Africa) 2500yrs ago (same places Bantu speakers currently live)

Genetics show Bantu people and the ancient iron workers are genetically related

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

By this logic - African was a term created by Europeans too

Should we get rid of that as well - go back to what our ancestors were doing?

Europe/European was a term coined by Semitic speakers - should Europeans get rid of that too and go back to what their ancestors were doing?

[Simply Daniella @KO6o0n]

Disturbing facts when I discover that most of Africa linguistic, ethnic & tribal classifications were shaped by the Germanic tribes (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪🇳🇱)
It became the accepted classifications & we never dared challenge it
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[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Lost me here - why not let KES strengthen and you will still buy dollars cheaply?

And - as KES strengthens - those hoarding dollars (anticipating it to weaken) will be forced to close those positions and sell (to avoid taking a loss)

[Cerebral Assassin @xysist]

Government has also been playing a rough game. When Ksh strengthened, they did not adjust Ksh to say 108 to reflect reality. They kept it at 130 and used the ‘ printed ‘ balance to buy USD.

these USD are an indication of a healthy economy making people have confidence in Ksh

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

We are going to do this in Central and Southern Africa

And - if Central and Southern Africans rise then West Africans will rise too

Wapende wasipende

[Abu The 𓃵 @Abu_The_Truth]

In the early 1900s the Chinese acted as if unity against foreign interference was unnecessary. Then Mao rose in 1921, ripped out bigotry & self-hatred from their souls, destroyed their broken ideology, vaporized 60 million RETARDS, and united a group the population of Africa.

[Del @TheCartelDel]

I sourced the book (despite it only being printed in the 1930s) from a Library in South Africa. It's easily the rarest and most expensive book I now own. But yes, I can now confirm for myself it is not AI generated. Lil bro had the fade with the line-up nearly 100 years ago.

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Btw Africans need to help Haiti get back on its feet

All the 35-40 Niger-Congo/Nilo-Saharan majority countries need to set up a Fund to Rebuild Haiti

Between them they can raise US$ 100-150m to rebuild the presidential palace and the cathedral - it will create jobs for Haitians

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Bahamian economy is mostly tourism and offshore banking with 400k people - not the same

They rebuilt the clock tower but Haiti need to restore all the symbols of the state/authority - first step in restoring order

They are great builders - built the largest fort in the Americas

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Bahamian economy is mostly tourism and offshore banking with 400k people - not the same

They rebuilt the clock tower but Haiti need to restore all the symbols of the state/authority - first step in restoring order

They are great builders - built the largest fort in the Americas

[𖣰𖦐𖧶𖨥𖦅𖣰𖢏 𖢏 𖦶𖦇𖣰𖨥𖦶𖦶𖨥 Kalûnga @AhlbBzll]

@AfroPickYouUp The Bahamas is 90% Black.

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Why am I saying this?

Africans should not cling on to the White man - he has added no value to us

Haiti went their own way and are the same or slightly better (on many indicators) vs Black South Africans

Proximity/Subordination to Whiteness adds no value to Africans

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Black South Africans life expectancy is ~10yrs lower than White and lower than Haiti

And I am pretty sure if we separated more indicators - they might be worse off than Haiti

"stunting (low height-for-age) due to severe malnutrition affects one in four children in South Africa"

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

"stunting (low height-for-age) due to severe malnutrition affects one in four children in South Africa"

I noticed it a while back - both statistically and on the pitch - South Africans are small

The same across Africa but South Africans (esp Coloured) already genetically small!

[Nkul'leko Mvelase🇿🇦 @lekomthembu6]

Guys what's wrong with South Africans and heights?😂😭😭

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Black South Africans life expectancy is ~10yrs lower than White and lower than Haiti

And I am pretty sure if we separated more indicators - they might be worse off than Haiti

"stunting (low height-for-age) due to severe malnutrition affects one in four children in South Africa"

[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

WORD ON THE STREET: A truck carrying solar panels crashed yesterday on the N3 at Peacevale, KZN.

The community which is mainly of the Zulu tribe, hurried to loot the truck. But what shocked the driver was that they were not looting the solar panels.

They were destroying the solar panels saying they prefer the aluminium which sells fast.

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[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

In what sense is Canada European? Do the words European Union even mean anything?

I think Morocco also wanted to join the EU - once - how did that work out? It was rejected harder than Mutombo

Europe wants Canada in but keeps Turkey out

https://t.co/dsk3uKFioE › international

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

West and Central/Southern Africa will likely never from a political union - too vast and too unstable

Central and Southern Africa can and will - it's important to keep things simple and drum home the shared identity

What on earth's an Arab/Latina/Slav? These are just linguistic

[The King of Zamunda. @IvorTour]

There is nothing called Bantu people i hate that colonial classification by a German historian,We are not Bantu's as Africans we are simply Africans, its very divisive brothers in East Africa are classified as Nilotics and brothers from Nigeria as Niger Congo i don't like that term,it's like to say Negroes they looked for people who speaks words that refers to humans as Bantu,Vantu,Vanhu and Muntu and a constract to define a whole people was formed i agree with you totally.

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

African states will either unite or suffer same fate as African Americans/Haiti - permanently consigned to be the global underclass

A union will need bonds stronger than political expediency - no bond's stronger than a shared identity/history

Why is Turkey excluded from the EU?

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

He spoke:
- Swahili (Bantu) seen it in clips
- BaGangda (Bantu) ""
- English (Indo-European) ""
- Kakwa and/or Lugbara (Nilo-Saharan) mother-tongue
- Arabic (Afro-Asiatic) his only schooling was Quranic school (where he memorised the Quran) and he lived out his last days in Saudi

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Say what you will about Amin but he was impressive

Accordion's one of the hardest instruments to master plus it's heavy (he's balancing it on a raised knee and holding the tune)

White men invited him to play rugby with them (despite racism) must've been v good and he played 1/n

[The Observer @observerug]

Then #Uganda president Idi Amin Dada playing the accordion

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

both winger and forward - meaning he's both fast and strong (amateur Jonah Lomu type)

National boxing champion and probably spoke ~5 languages - his english was a bit dodgy but was likely mostly self taught (likely self taught accordion too!)

Terrible president - impressive man

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

The support other Europeans gave to White South Africans gives you an idea why settler states have a higher GDP

[AfroPickYouUp @AfroPickYouUp]

Settler states will always be wealthier than non

Southern African settler states are wealthier than the African average - same with most Caribbean countries vs Haiti (Haiti's hanging in there)

It will take a while and creative thinking for non-settler countries to close the gap

[𖣰𖦐𖧶𖨥𖦅𖣰𖢏 𖢏 𖦶𖦇𖣰𖨥𖦶𖦶𖨥 Kalûnga @AhlbBzll]

@jasonterrysysbm There’s no real reason that Haiti shouldn’t be at least at the level of Jamaica or the Bahamas.