Elton John’s life has been touched by gold in fascinating ways, both on and off the stage. Hear his story, in a new exclusive access documentary. Elton John - Touched By Gold, out now.
A cocoa farmer tastes chocolate for the first time in Ivory Coast 🇨🇮.
This shouldn't be happening in Cote d'Ivoire, the world's largest producer of cocoa, which is used in making chocolate.
This is how Patrice Lumumba was hunted by Belgian-backed mercenaries and the US.
His only crime was that he wanted his country to keep its own resources. 💔
Apologists for colonialism deliberately downplay how violent colonialism in Africa truly was. Understanding this history is also important for understanding the current instability in Africa today. The colonial systems were never dismantled. Until this happens, Africa will continue to struggle.
🚨: A women with late-Alzheimer's who hadn't spoken in 5 years, received psilocybin and started talking, recalling memories and making jokes, after 19 hours!
@AfricanHub_ Africa will never free not now n not in future. Indirect colonisation still going on, they came with boat, religion and they coming through trade. Mama Africa will never be free from Europe, America and now China.
@AfricanHub_ It's just China's foot in the door to eventually take over. I don't know why it is so hard for people to see what China is doing. Because they're not using bullets & bombs?
💡 Le savais-tu ?
Bien avant l'arrivée des Européens en Afrique de l'Ouest, le peuple Ekoi, établi entre le Nigeria et le Cameroun actuels, avait déjà développé un fascinant système d'écriture appelé Nsibidi. Contrairement aux alphabets classiques composés de lettres, le Nsibidi repose sur des centaines de symboles graphiques capables de transmettre des idées, des émotions et des informations complexes.
Pour mieux comprendre son importance, il faut savoir que cette écriture était principalement utilisée par des sociétés secrètes et des confréries traditionnelles. Ses symboles étaient dessinés sur les murs des habitations, gravés sur divers objets, tatoués sur le corps ou encore brodés sur des tissus cérémoniels afin de transmettre des messages réservés aux initiés.
Ce qui rend le Nsibidi particulièrement remarquable, c'est qu'il ne se limitait pas à l'écriture. Il constituait également un véritable langage gestuel. Les membres initiés pouvaient communiquer discrètement en public grâce à des mouvements de mains, des signes codifiés ou des postures spécifiques, sans prononcer le moindre mot.
Chaque symbole possédait une signification particulière. Certains représentaient des notions simples comme l'amour, l'amitié ou le mariage, tandis que d'autres servaient à enregistrer des décisions judiciaires, des accords ou des règles sociales complexes.
Le Nsibidi demeure aujourd'hui l'une des preuves les plus impressionnantes que les civilisations africaines avaient développé leurs propres systèmes de communication écrite, capables de préserver leur histoire, leurs traditions et leurs lois bien avant la colonisation.
This was my sophomore album and the most stressful one because my 1st album did so well I was trying to do better than that album & it had me stressed so I didn’t appreciate it like I do NOW because listening back this album was a THEATRICAL MASTERPIECE🤌🏾 27 years ago
JUST IN🚨: British physicists discovered quantum effects inside brain neurons that may actually explain human consciousness entirely.
Consciousness is quantum in nature!
The final boss of ADHD in the ocean. This tiny pufferfish spends an entire week flapping its fins to create a perfect seven-foot mandala in the sand, then decorates it with shells—all to impress a single female that may or may not swim by.
⚡ SCIENTISTS JUST CREATED MATTER FROM PURE LIGHT
For nearly 90 years, this was only a theory. Now, scientists have turned light into matter by smashing photons together and creating electrons and positrons.
The breakthrough confirms a process first predicted in 1934 and provides real-world proof of Einstein's famous equation, E = mc².
It reveals a stunning truth: matter is simply energy in another form. Everything around us may have once existed as pure light.
Source:
Brandenburg, D., et al. *Physical Review Letters*. Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.