Rasheed ★ رشيد

Architect, Thinker, Maker, Writer, Runner, Cyclist, Yogi, Adventurer, Hip-Hop Aficionado, Raconteur & WHUFC ⚒
Instagram: @rasheed_dauda

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

À 23 ans, elle guérit la lèpre. À 24 ans, elle disparaît.
Et pendant 90 ans, un homme blanc s'attribua le mérite de ses travaux.
Voici l'histoire d'Alice Augusta Ball, le génie qu'on a tenté d'effacer.
Elle grandit à Seattle au début du XXe siècle, dans une famille qui croyait au potentiel des Noirs.
Son grand-père fut l'un des premiers photographes noirs d'Amérique.
Sa mère lavait les sols pour pouvoir offrir un microscope à Alice.
Ce cadeau changea le monde.
Alice dévorait la chimie comme l'oxygène.
Elle obtint deux licences.
Elle publia des recherches alors qu'elle était encore étudiante.
Puis elle s'installa à Hawaï et devint :
📷 La première femme à obtenir une maîtrise en chimie à l'Université d'Hawaï
📷 La première femme noire à obtenir ce diplôme
📷 La première femme professeure de chimie de l'histoire de l'université
Elle avait 23 ans.
Mais pendant qu'elle enseignait, elle fut confrontée à une urgence bien plus grande que le monde universitaire :
La maladie de Hansen, la lèpre.
Un diagnostic signifiait l'exil.
Arraché à sa famille, on était déporté sur une île pour y mourir seul.
Il existait un traitement :
une huile amère et collante, peu efficace et extrêmement douloureuse.
Nombreux furent ceux qui le refusèrent. Nombreux furent ceux qui moururent.
Alice refusa de baisser les bras.
Dans son laboratoire, elle trouva la solution que personne d'autre n'avait trouvée :
Elle transforma cette huile épaisse en une forme assimilable par le corps.
Une injection révolutionnaire qui sauva enfin des vies.
Les patients commencèrent à guérir.
Des familles furent réunies.
Des personnes condamnées guérirent subitement.
Sa découverte devint la méthode Ball.
Elle changea l'histoire de la médecine avant même que la plupart des gens n'aient terminé leurs études.
Et puis… elle disparut.
À seulement 24 ans, un mystérieux accident de laboratoire lui coûta la vie.
Elle ne vit jamais le miracle qu'elle avait accompli.
Puis vint le vol.
Le président de l'université, un chimiste blanc nommé Arthur Dean, s'appropria ses recherches, en retira son nom et les rebaptisa :
« La Méthode Dean ».
Pendant des décennies…
📷 Son nom figurait dans les manuels scolaires.
📷 Son nom était encensé par les médecins.
📷 Son nom était attribué à la seule reconnaissance de ses mérites.
Son nom a failli disparaître complètement de l'histoire.
Un vol si discret que la plupart des gens ignoraient même qu'un crime avait été commis.
Il fallut 90 ans pour que la vérité éclate enfin.
Des chercheurs ont mis au jour les documents originaux d'Alice.
Son travail.
Son génie.
Ses découvertes majeures.
Les projecteurs se sont braqués sur elle. Le mensonge s'est effondré.
Et aujourd'hui, le monde le sait :
C'était la Méthode Ball – TOUJOURS.
Alice Ball a guéri une maladie qui avait ravagé des vies pendant des siècles.
Elle a libéré des familles.
Elle a sauvé des milliers de personnes de l'isolement et de la mort. Et elle a accompli tout cela en une seule année.
Imaginez ce qu'elle aurait pu faire en une vie entière.
Alice Ball méritait un prix Nobel.
Elle méritait des statues.
Elle méritait que son nom soit sur toutes les lèvres des étudiants en sciences.
Au lieu de cela, elle a été étouffée par le silence…
Jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Nous prononçons son nom parce que l'histoire a refusé de le faire.
Nous l'honorons parce que d'autres ne l'ont pas fait.
Nous nous souvenons d'elle parce qu'elle l'a mérité.
Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916)
La chimiste qui a changé le monde avant même d'avoir eu le temps d'y vivre.

[dj short @_DJShort]

10 years ago today, D'Angelo performed "Sometimes It Snows In April" by Prince alongside Princess (Maya Rudolph & Gretchen Lieberum) for a Prince tribute on Jimmy Fallon

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

Proudly Omoluwabi 🙌🏽🙏🏽♥️🖤💚

[THINK YORUBA FIRST @ThinkYoruba_1st]

Fela Kuti and Sade Adu inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!!!
Yorùbá legends!!! 🔥

#YorubaGreatness

[Luther Vandross @luthervandross]

Luther Vandross is a 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. Thank you to all the fans who voted and to the @rockhall for honoring the legacy of the great Luther Vandross.

#LutherForever

[methodman @methodman]

We made it.
THANK YOU!!!!

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

@aareologun Well they are in a subtle way. While the individual countries are independent to an extent, the EU has significant control and power.

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

@LBC @lewis_goodall @lewis_goodall great exchange of views with delusional @JakeWSimons.

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

@nelsabbey No economic growth in your country, and you effectively cancel Wireless - one of the largest summer music festivals in the world that brings employment, tourism, and tax revenue over some performative outrage.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

When will Africans finally outgrow this embarrassing and childish tourist syndrome?
An African flies to a European country, sees a shiny building or a fancy train, whips out their phone, and immediately runs to social media to cry, "When will our country have this?!"

SPOILER ALERT : those train rides are not free.
They are directly subsidized by the missing wealth and uncollected taxes of the developing world.

Truth is that, while the rest of Europe was tripping over themselves to aggressively extract African resources by sending gunboats, missionaries, and colonial administrators to do their dirty work, Luxembourg was playing 3D chess.

They did not need to get their hands bloody or dirty. Instead, they quietly positioned themselves as the ultimate offshore tollbooth for the wealth being plundered from the Global South.

Here is how their white-collar criminal network operates: A massive multinational conglomerate digs up copper in Zambia, pumps crude in Nigeria, or mines cobalt in the DRC Congo.
By any standard of fairness, the immense wealth generated from those resources should be taxed locally to build the exact same roads, schools, and train networks we keep drooling over.

But the global financial system is rigged. Instead of paying their fair share, that corporation sets up a shell company and often literally just a dusty P.O. Box in Luxembourg.

And then through the dark arts of corporate accounting known as "profit shifting" and "transfer pricing," the company manipulates its books. The African subsidiary, the one doing the actual extraction, magically records zero profit.

Meanwhile, the Luxembourg P.O. Box records billions. Africa gets the environmental degradation, the exploited labor, and a depleted national treasury. Luxembourg gets the capital.

Now, Luxembourg taxes these phantom P.O. boxes just enough to make it look legitimate, pulling in about 5% of their GDP. But that’s just the cover charge. When you factor in the massive ecosystem built to service this racket,the armies of corporate lawyers, wealth managers, auditors, and bankers designing these tax-dodging schemes, it accounts for a staggering 30% of Luxembourg’s entire GDP.

Put the math together, and you realize that nearly 40% of their national wealth is a monument to laundered money.
It is the most flawlessly executed heist in modern history. They managed to siphon the wealth of a continent without firing a single bullet or toppling a single regime.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

By the way, if you're African and you're new to geopolitical awareness, you can use this picture as a guide to know who is on your side and who is your enemy in this world.

Notice how China and Russia voted?

Then notice how your oyibo faves voted (or abstained, which is also a type of vote)?

Shebi "not everything is about race"? You see how white people ALWAYS instinctively bunch together, from Andorra to Norway, whenever it's time to do some racist shit?

That's called Pan-Europeanism.

The antidote is Pan-Africanism.

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

@aareologun Wow

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

American political scientist John Mearsheimer: "The U.S. is a ruthless country that starved 38 million people with sanctions between 1971 and 2021."

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Tucker Carlson:

I don’t want Israel to be destroyed.

I don’t want any country to be destroyed at all.

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

@SirloinKay Probably the most ignorant tweet i have seen in a while. You can't be an intelligent person and actually think you can use ethnic bigotry as a premise.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

How Morocco won the AFCON 2025

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

As I analysed earlier for @sov_media, Senegal's win against Morocco wasn't "just" a football game. It was a globally televised lesson in defiance and resistance.

The usual suspects were never going to take it lying down. This was telegraphed.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Five missing black women, mainly from Nigeria and Kenya, were found in different water bodies with missing organs in the United Kingdom, yet the mainstream media is silent and the useless African government can't call this out.

[Rasheed ★ رشيد @RasheedDauda]

Source: ArchDaily
https://t.co/UlXQmMvGiV

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: .Stevie Wonder went off on ‘White Supremacists’ when he spoke at Rev. Jesse Jackson Homegoing service:

Wonder: "It is you, and you know who you are. You need to overcome hate. You need to overcome the mindset of white supremacy...You shall overcome the need to dominate every single country and its people."

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Literally no Muslim in the world is shocked. Lol.
This is not news.

Edward Snowden leaked 10 years ago that MI6, CIA and Mossad worked together to create and train ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and every local off-shoot terrorist group.

And just last year, US congressman Scott Perry whistle blew that the US has been funding all these groups through USAID.

But guess what the biggest tell has always been?

The people these “Muslim terror groups” love to kill the most are Muslims! And only carried out their first controlled attack on Israel in 2017 when rumour mills started to reveal the Mossad connection. (Spoiler alert: it was a false flag).

So, despite years of you telling us that “Muslim radical Islamist terrorists” are the greatest threat to western civilization and they especially “hate Jews” they mainly target their own people and not their “greatest enemy”?
Lol.

Here’s something else you might mot know, and it’ll help explain the below - Iran has been fighting to try and eliminate these groups for decades!

“Al Qaeda urges Muslims to back Israel over Iran”. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock, because they are Israel and Israel is them.