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Ajoke Brown Media is your go-to source for the latest in African fashion, tourism, travel, beauty, lifestyle, and art.

[` @literaturelisa]

No, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

the older i get, the more i realize being in a hurry is a terrible way to live life.

[Blacks. @JKyalo37828]

Burning the Wigs

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The product currently being forced on the world called "AI" is making kids dumber. Literally. This is not an opinion, but the findings of a research report.

If you literally want your kids to be dumber than you, immerse them in ChatGPT and Claude. @joyfwen explains:

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

They call our mud and thatch “primitive.”
Then rebrand the same materials as premium eco-luxury abroad.

Africa has the original blueprint.
Refine the techniques. Elevate the craft. Own the narrative.

The world’s next great architectural tourism destination is already ours, we just need to build it properly.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

a woman can be drunk and half clothed and won't be raped if there’s not a rapist in the room. liquor and clothing don’t cause rape, rapist do.

[Karis °•♡•° @kwehzy]

It just pisses me off so badly that the world COULD be a better place, but a handful of people actively choose not to let it.

[Gekomaithagu 🇰🇪 @Kijana_Babu7]

How about we unite as Africans and push for Peace in Sudan and Congo... Let's pause on the twars for a min, Our African brothers are being butchered men.

[CHIGO @iamChigoo]

“G0d is anğry with Black people because we’ve refused to use our brains.”

— Ibrahim Traoré

[toniWoni🇯🇲 @heytoniwoni]

How did school teach us about the Amazon so much & never once mention the Congo Basin? It's the world's largest tropical carbon sink. The planet is literally breathing through it & nobody thought we should know 😳

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.

You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.

You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.

You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.

You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.

You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.

Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is exactly what is happening in Africa through politics and religion, especially Christianity. They sell hope to people and then take money from their desperation.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

He’s right, celebrating Bible translations while STEM stays in English and French is how you stay religious and poor at the same time.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

To whom rice is given, sense is taken

[Ajoke Brown Media @AjokebrownMedia]

Headwraps and High Fashion- A Modern Masterclass in Styling Gele and Turbans.
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[Ajoke Brown Media @AjokebrownMedia]

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Discover the ancient history, lost-wax casting technique, and geometric symbolism behind authentic Tuareg silver jewelry and the famous Cross of Agadez.

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

In March 1980, 50 men suffocated to death after officers locked them in an overcrowded Black Maria and rejected their pleas for fresh air.

▶️A day earlier, police officers had raided Isolo and Mushin in Lagos following what they described as an armed robbery incident and arrested 68 men for wandering.

▶️On the day of the incident, all 68 pleaded not guilty in court, but were ordered to remain in custody pending further investigation. They were then packed into a Black Maria designed to hold about 30 people.

▶️After several hours in the overcrowded vehicle under the afternoon sun, many were unconscious when they arrived at Ikoyi Prison.

▶️47 died before reaching Lagos General Hospital, while three others died in hospital. Doctors attributed the deaths to suffocation, worsened by hunger and dehydration.

▶️Many of the victims were later identified as ordinary workers, including spray painters, mechanics, glass cutters and carpenters.

▶️A survivor, Mohammed Garba, told a government inquiry that detainees had shouted that they were suffocating while the van was still outside the court. He said a policeman responded, "A dying man does not talk."

▶️In May 1981, nine police officers charged over the deaths were acquitted after a prolonged trial.

[gst @wearegst]

A 20-year-old student was shot in broad daylight, bundled into a police van, and logged as an unclaimed casualty.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

A young nigerian cries out for help after buying Capri Sun and found that it tasted awkward and decided to cut it open only to find it is fake and adulterated.

This current @NafdacAgency and its director general are exceptionally useless and incompetent!

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

Meet my imaginary friend and conscience, Nneuche. She is always there with me. She helps me process my thoughts and filters them too. She talks a lot, though she whispers most of the time. As I think, she says my thoughts out loud. Because I tend to overthink, I make her talk a lot.

She can be aggressive, depending on what I am thinking about. I don’t talk to myself or think out loud. I talk to her instead because she helps regulate and coordinate my different thoughts. She can also shapeshift and change her features depending on what I am thinking about.

She loves native music. It helps her calm down and rest from my shenanigans. So I sing and play native music because it quiets my thoughts and puts me in a good mood.