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[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Many people are thinking wrong that Africa has no history However, historical and archeological studies have proven that Africa has a richer and greater history than ancient historians have tried to have us believe.

1. The human race is African descent. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) have been unearthed at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered in Omo, Ethiopia and date back to 195,000 years, the oldest known in the world.

2. Prehuman skeletons were discovered in Africa between 4 and 5 million years ago. The oldest known ancestral type of mankind is thought to be Australopithecus ramidus, which lived at least 4.4 million years ago.

3. Africans were the first to organize fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago. In Katanda, a region in the northeastern part of Zaire (now Congo), a series of finely crafted harpon tips were recovered, all thoroughly polished and barbed. A tool, equally well designed, was also discovered, it is believed to be a dagger. The findings suggest the existence of a first aquatic or fish-based culture.

4. Africans were the first to start mining 43,000 years ago. In 1964, a hematite mine was discovered in Swaziland on the Bomvu ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range. Eventually, 300,000 items were recovered, including thousands of stone mining tools. Adrian Boshier, one of the archaeologists present at the site, dated the mine to an astonishing 43,200 years old.

5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The Ishango bone is a tool handle with engraved notches found in the Ishango region of Zaire (today called Congo) near Lake Edward. The bone tool was originally thought to be over 8,000 years old

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[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

“But this is what I recall: as a teacher, Ama Ata Aidoo did not suffer fools lightly. The same wonderfully liberated directness, critical analysis, sarcasm, and disarming tenderness we find in her plays and fiction was there in the classroom.” -Tsitsi Jaji
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Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM, has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures Television with @YvonneOrji as the producer. 📖📺

https://t.co/4uxbndQQV7

[African Writers Conference @AWC_2026]

It's workers day today and we are celebrating our valued team members for their immense contributions to the successes we have recorded so far.

Who are you celebrating and why?

#awc2024
#workersday
#teamwork

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Check out this poem by @kojomesking titled Nights in the old Africa https://t.co/12vuf6i2qz

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Opportunity for young writers. National film authority under it script bank project is presenting yet another opportunity for young writers tell a friend who stand a chance. #localhero #scriptbank #nationalfilmauthority #litreeture #writers #writingcompetition

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Submissions are now open to the poetry anthology THE AFRICAN MIGRATION REPORT: An Anthology of Poems, organized by Forced Migration and The Arts (@refugee_arts) in collaboration with @CivicLeicester and @RegulariseUK.

Deadline: May 25, 2024

https://t.co/mzQDr8Qwaw

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Happy world book day!!
Check out
The Matriarch's Verse by @apiorkor
Cry Wolf by Wilbur Smith
The son of Umbele by Bill Marshall

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Before a dialogue is spoken in a movie it was written, it was literature and will be literature for ever. This is what Iroh from Avatar the last Airbender had for us.

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[Writers Space Africa @wsacentre]

CALL FOR SUBMISSION!

WSA is calling 📞. Pick up your pen.

We are accepting submissions for our 91st Edition (July 2024 Edition) for the attached genres.

We can't wait to read your works.

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[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Five African writers have made it to the shortlist for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (@cwfcreatives). This year's shortlist includes writers from Mauritius and Rwanda for the first time in history.

https://t.co/Pg1xdYO9El

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Congratulations to @kwamedawes . You deserve it.

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Ghanaian author @KwameDawes has been named as the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2024-2027. Previous Poet Laureates include Professors Mervyn Morris, Lorna Goodison, and Olive Senior. Congratulations to Dawes! 🎉

https://t.co/BKTNuhQrJ0

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But the news is he is taken. Rate is short poem by @kojomesking

#patiswiss #LILIES𓆸 #QueenOfTears #HaneyGarcia #ElClasico @_Akotowaa @AsaaseNana @AkadiMagazine @WritersDigest @apiorkor

[Chillin Papa Bee @kojomeskin]

Look at her cheek in this selfie she took
Sad tired cheeks
Bruised and covered with makeup
She is trying so hard
to smile for that perfect selfie
One that'll make me wish for her again. After she dumped me on that yellow day.
But the news is
I got loved

[Chillin Papa Bee @kojomeskin]

Look at her cheek in this selfie she took
Sad tired cheeks
Bruised and covered with makeup
She is trying so hard
to smile for that perfect selfie
One that'll make me wish for her again. After she dumped me on that yellow day.
But the news is
I got loved

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Did you know that that cool line in a movie was thought about and written?
Literature is always the alpha and the others follow. This quote is from Iroh in Avatar the last Airbender .

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[The Shallow Tales Review @ShallowTales]

“I think that poets who decline to deal with the real world and who exclude politics and everything else that happens in life from their poetry do themselves a disservice. Nothing that is human is alien to the poet.” — Dennis Brutus.

[Afritondo @afritondo]

Sabah Carrim is the winner of the 2024 Afritondo Short Story Prize!

Her short story "Fading Mehndi" was chosen by our judges for this year's edition.

Congratulations @SabahCarrim 🎉🎉🎉

[20.35 Africa @20_35Africa]

“I start with love. I approach writing with love, a banal sentiment. I want to say I love something and make you see how much…”

- Àkpà Arinzechukwu (@akpaah ).

Read here:
https://t.co/GuL9T1pJZE

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Keep writing, keep reading and as they say in the fire nation, 'stay flamin!!

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