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A centuries-old tradition, practiced for more than 2500 years in some provinces, this process of hatching silkworms from the egg and weaving the silk from the fibers is an art form of its own. Beyond the creation of the panel, the dyeing of the threads, and drawing of the idea, is the painstaking embroidery of the hand-drawn draft, which takes hours or even days to complete. These artisans are true masters of their craft.
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Take a few minutes to immerse yourself into the stunning visual beauty of the Chinese countryside while watching a woman make a traditional Lotus Crisp pastry. Seriously, just do it.
The simplicity of the ingredients, tools, process and environment along with the music have relaxed me today the point that I may need a nap. 😴 I think I could give up my modern conveniences to live like this for a while.
Stop whatever you're doing and listen carefully:
AFRICOM has announced the launch of a new psychological operation meant to influence Africans towards US interests by deploying a US army cyber unit to impersonate Africans online.
Its name "Drongo" comes from the African bird that mimics other animals so that it can steal their food.
That account trying to gaslight you on Twitter with "Traoré is a brutal dictator", "The worst democracy is better than the best dictatorship", and "Stop blaming white people and hold your leaders accountable" may just be an American soldier carrying out his mission.
Use your discernment on the internet!
Michael Langley Failed, So AFRICOM’s Launched a Psyop Against Africa
On 15 July, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) launched a new psychological operation called Drongo Company. Its stated goal is to influence Africans to act in ways that favour US interests by impersonating Africans and using social media thought leadership to shape African public opinion.
This incidentally, is the exact kind of Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (FIMI) operation that the US government regularly accuses other actors of in Africa and around the world. Whether every accusation is indeed a confession, the one thing we know for certain is that this cannot be good news for Africa.
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Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.
They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.
Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.
Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.
But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?
Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?
Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?
If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?
Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?
The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.
Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.
I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.
In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.
Reading the mass Arab crash out in the comments of the tweet I'm quoting makes me feel a bit privileged to be African. I thought we were the people with the world's worst identity crisis, but it seems that title belongs to Gulf Arabs.
They are typing every alphabet of anti-black racism they can muster from their souls because an African leader rightly called out some of his people for going to study Wahhabi ideology in Saudi Arabia that has been linked to terror pipelines. Knowing fully well that
a) Said Wahhabi nonsense was literally created by the CIA after Nixon's petrodollar deal with Saudi Arabia, which created American-backed foreign destabilisation organisations like the Muslim Youth World League - thus Wahhabism does not even represent most Saudis, let alone Arab Muslims, and
b) Ibrahim Traoré himself is a Muslim, and he is not speaking badly of Islam, but of a specific type of weaponised, CIA-backed pseudo-Islam that has caused misery to millions of Muslims around the world.
These absolute dumbasses think that something Richard Nixon's CIA created is their religious identity!
I'm never going to complain about Africans again. At least my grouse with our people is that we have an identity crisis due to not remembering who we were 400 or 500 years ago - not the kind of identity crisis where we think that a pseudo religion created by American empire builders after the colour TV was invented is our whole identity.
What a bunch of complete donuts.
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Social Capital™️
I have never seen the plight of my generation articulated so well.
This is the core issue we must solve, we must provide abundant social capital to the next generation - using the levers of politics and private industry - or humanity as we know it will end.
Polygamy had to be systematically destroyed as a necessary, highly calculated preliminary step to completely dismantle the traditional family unit. Now, through relentless media propaganda, the entire society is strictly commanded to view any man with two or more wives as a raving madman, a financial illiterate, or a social deviant. Under this brainwashing, the polygamous family is aggressively, perpetually marked as inherently dysfunctional, chaotic, and backward: a hellscape full of endless domestic fights, toxic rivalries, and physical altercations where the co-wives are portrayed in a perpetual battle with one another, even resorting to local witchcraft, spiritual poison, and malicious sabotage.
Yet, even when the vast majority of humanity submissively integrated this Westernized monogamy into their culture, customs, and legal codes, it still did not satisfy the insatiable greed of the global capitalist network. Today, the very institution of marriage itself is being subliminally marketed as an unnecessary financial burden, a psychological trap, and a career-killing shackle. The lifestyle of men over forty years old currently being televised on Western sitcoms, lifestyle vlogs, and corporate streaming dramas is absolutely not that of the mature, disciplined fathers working tirelessly to build a legacy, secure their family's future, and establish a strong home. Instead, they actively promote a shallow, consumerist, and perpetually adolescent archetype of manhood, where the primary concern of a grown man over forty is living in an overpriced rented apartment alone, buying up limited-edition designer sneakers, collecting ridiculous luxury handbags, obsessing over elaborate skincare routines, and vanity-tripping at the gym in the evening.