She died in 1995 at only 52 years old, never seeing her son become President of the United States of America. For years people only knew her as Barack Obamas mother. But she was much more than that. She was a scholar, a fighter for dignity and a woman who believed systems-not people-create poverty. Stanley Ann Dunham❤️Barack Obama is her son.
They do not like our history. They uncomfortable about our history.. today they are banning thousands of black books. Criminalizing black history.. the return of Jim Crow 2.00. The return of an apartheid 2.0.
Nigeria is a country of many nations. The English dictionary already explained it. Awolowo to said it. Yorùbáland is a nation on it's own.
Well said Babatunde Fasola
June 17, 2015 — The Charleston Church massacre occurred in Charleston, S.C. during a prayer service when a white supremacist shot & killed 9 church members, including the Sr. pastor. RIP
In 1999, a 16-year-old girl from Enugu, Nigeria won a green card lottery with her mother and moved to the United States.
27 years later, she painted the Obamas. The green card lottery. Think about that.
Her name is Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
Her mother, Dora Akunyili, was a professor of pharmacology who would later become one of Nigeria's most celebrated public servants, the woman who went to war against counterfeit drugs as NAFDAC Director General.
But in the late 1990s, Dora was just a mother who wanted her children to have options.
She entered the US Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.
The lottery.
She won.
In 1999, 16-year-old Njideka packed her things. Said goodbye to Enugu, to Lagos, to the life she'd always known.
She moved to America with her sister Ijeoma.
She took a gap year.
Studied for her SATs.
Took American history classes.
Then returned to Nigeria for National Youth Service.
Then came back to the US to start again.
She took her first oil painting class at a community college in Philadelphia.
Her teacher Jeff Reed saw something. He pushed her to apply to Swarthmore College.
She got in.
She studied biology and art.
She met a Texan named Justin Crosby and eventually married him.
She went to Yale for her MFA.
She built a career that redefined contemporary art.
And on June 14, 2026, 27 years after that green card lottery win, she stood in Chicago and watched Barack and Michelle Obama see their faces in her painting for the very first time.
A lottery ticket. A Philadelphia community college. The Obama Presidential Center.
Nigeria does not produce ordinary people.
The attacks on Michelle Obama’s femininity aren’t jokes.
They’re a pattern of anti-Black misogyny that this country refuses to hold accountable.
She is the standard.
She has always been the standard.
🎥: @MichelleObama
Reverend (later Canon) Josiah Jesse Likoye Ransome-Kuti was the first Nigerian to release a record album after he recorded many hymns (in the Yoruba language) on a gramophone through Zonophone Records, London, in 1925. This album can still be found in the British Museum.
Reverend J.J Ransome-Kuti, who died on September 4, 1930, at 75, was the grandfather of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and the great-grandfather of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.
🚨 NOW: Americans are noticing that Japanese World Cup fans are doing MASS CLEANUPS of AMERICAN STADIUMS after the match
"In Japan, we are taught to clean up in school"
Thug cultures destroy and ravage, others clean and build!
This is why we LOVE JAPAN! PURE CLASS ACT! 🇺🇸🇯🇵
Agbara Nla, also known as "Ayamatanga" , was a powerful Gospel drama released in 1992 by Mount Zion Films Ministry.
The movie became extremely popular and scared many of us as children. It also brought Mount Zion Films into the limelight.Originally released in Yoruba, its massive success led to a full English version in 1994 titled "The Ultimate Power".
Instead of dubbing or subtitling the original, Evangelist Mike Bamiloye and the team completely reshot the entire film from scratch to reach a wider audience across Nigeria and beyond.
Did this movie scare you as a child too?
Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race.
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