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On this day in 1899, 19 year old Frank Embree was tortured, castrated, skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd, for a crime he didn’t commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants, no one was ever arrested.
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Mali is notable for one of the oldest centers of learning in the world (12th Century), the Sankoré University in Timbuktu, for Islamic and African scholarship. It offered courses in subjects like astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, and history.
In Burkina Faso, the government has brought together more than 1,000 traditional herbalists as part of efforts to modernize the country’s traditional medicine sector.
The government believes many herbalists hold generations of knowledge about medicinal plants that deserves proper scientific research and testing.
Instead of letting that knowledge disappear, they want to study it, improve it, and see what can be produced safely on a larger scale.
Remember, long before modern hospitals, many African communities relied on traditional medicine for generations.
In 1761, a French ship wrecked and abandoned 60 slaves on Tromelin Island, a tiny sandbank with no trees. Forgotten by the world, they kept a fire burning and built a coral micro-society for 15 years, until only 7 women and a baby were finally rescued.
In 1761, the French vessel Utile was traveling illegally with enslaved Malagasy people when it struck a reef and wrecked off the coast of a barren sandbank in the Indian Ocean. The crew managed to build a makeshift raft and escape to Madagascar, but they left behind 60 enslaved people with nothing but the promise that they would return. That rescue never came.
For fifteen years, these survivors were completely abandoned by the world. They faced extreme heat, devastating cyclones, and a total lack of natural resources on a tiny speck of coral. Despite these conditions, they did not give up. They built a functioning society from the ground up, crafting tools from shipwreck debris, securing water, and somehow keeping a fire burning for over a decade. When they were finally reached by a French vessel in 1776, only seven women and an eight-month-old child were still alive. Their resilience in the face of such calculated betrayal remains a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and the history we must never forget.
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@WelcomeTheGulag Gaddamsel! As a South African I had a small operation in Ghana a few years ago. The workers could not believe the treatment myself and partners gave them, from food, PPE, lodging and security.