100+ Black people, including me, stood 7pm-6am at the Ukraine/Hungary border. We were blocked while fair skin passed. A soldier cocked his gun at me, threatening to shoot if I didn’t let a Moroccan girl pass because she was closer to white. I still have panic attacks from this.
Sudan is currently experiencing the world's largest and fastest-growing displacement crisis. More than nine million people remain displaced in Sudan, while nearly 29 million face acute hunger. A humanitarian disaster.
i beg you all. while it's important to talk about Palestine and Iran, please don't ignore what's happening in congo. congo barely has any media coverage, we need to talk about it more.
In only 4 years in power (1983-87), Thomas Sankara
Built 350 schools, roads, railways without foreign aid
Increased literacy rate by 60%
Banned forced marriages
Gave poor people land
Vaccinated 2.5 million kids
Planted 10 million trees
Appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during
sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
Drove out French imperialism & withdrew Burkina Faso from IMF
A very productive life that was brutally cut short 💔. He was assassinated at the age of 38. Rest on son of the soil 🕊
as his private property for 23 years. He cut off the limbs of Congolese who did not meet their daily quota on the plantation. At the end of his rule, he had killed 15million Congolese people. But we are taught only about Hitler
UAE is killing Sudanese People
UAE is Killing Sudanese People
UAE is killing Sudanese People
UAE is killing Sudanese People
UAE is killing Sudanese People