𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚂 𝙵𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙰𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃🪬

#𝙰𝚃𝙲𝚀☥ #�#𝙹𝙳𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊🍩 #𝙱𝙻�#𝙱𝙻𝙼✊🏿 #𝙲𝚁𝚃🧑🏿‍💻 #𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚃𝚑𝚎𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚘🇨🇩 #𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚎𝙵𝚛𝚎�#𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚎𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚎𝙿𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚎🇵🇸 #𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚃𝚑𝚎𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚌�#𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚃𝚑𝚎𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚝✋🏽

[𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚂 𝙵𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙰𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃🪬 @RonStallworth78]

🎞️𝙸𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝙴𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚈𝚘𝚞?!?
𝙴𝚕𝚟𝚒𝚜 𝙼𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸
#𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖 #𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙲�#𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙲𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊 #𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚒�#𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 #𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 ##𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 #𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙷𝚒�#𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 #𝙳𝚘𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊�#𝙳𝚘𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚢 #𝙽𝚎𝚝𝚏𝚕𝚒𝚡
h#𝙽𝚎𝚝𝚏𝚕𝚒𝚡
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[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

In 1968, Sidney Poitier was at a press conference at the height of his career.

He made it very clear how he felt about the press.

Funny that I had to find this on a discarded film reel with 1000s of books, Microfiche and films.

Now you can see it.

[African Stream @african_stream]

THIS IS HOW YOU PROTEST!

The Kinshasa central market, also known as Zando, is located within the Gombe commune of DRC’s capital. In July 2020, its female sellers took to the streets to protest against the city’s management and the government of President Félix Tshisekedi, who’d come to power in 2019. And—as you can see in this clip—their protest was delivered by energetically singing and dancing as armed police looked on.

The DRC has been destabilised by militias backed by neighbouring countries Rwanda and Uganda, which has led to ongoing violence for over 20 years. This has created challenging conditions that affect the everyday lives of the Congolese people, including infrastructure deficits hampering mobility and economic activities. Another problem is corruption, inefficient bureaucratic processes, and a lack of support for informal industry workers, especially women.

Securing a second term in 2023, Tshisekedi campaigned on a promise (also made during his first run) to improve people’s lives and to stop the destabilising efforts from neighbouring countries and their global backers. Despite a lot of rhetoric, the Congolese people are still waiting.

Video credit: @Fenix.cd

[Vuvu Videos @VideosVuvu]

🥰🥰🥰

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"We Negroes have fought and died enough for white people, the time has come to fight and die for ourselves."

[African Stream @african_stream]

IVORIAN ICONIC SINGER DEFENDS SAHEL REVOLUTIONS

Meet Aicha Kone, a 67-year-old singer from the Ivory Coast who is making music to support the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). With a career spanning decades, Kone came to the spotlight in the 1970s, singing about political freedom for Africa. Her latest song, released in late August, applauds the revolutionary military governments in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, landlocked countries in Africa’s arid Sahel region, south of the Sahara Desert.

She has met Niger’s president, General Abdourahamane Tiani and Burkina Faso’s president, Ibrahim Traoré, lauding their ‘courage to stand up and say loud and clear that they want to take their destiny into their own hands.’ Drawing inspiration from the greats, such as South African singer Miriam Makeba (1932-2008), she calls for economic freedom, with lyrics like ‘I want my oil, I want my diamond, I want my gold,’ and ‘Fama [Malian Armed Forces], strength to you!’

With the commercialisation of African culture at the expense of its radicality, such as in the case of music genres such as Amapiano and Afrobeats, Kone’s work invites the masses to resurrect the legacy of the greats such as Makeba and Nigerian musician Fela Kuti (1938-97). Indeed, music is an integral part of revolution. 

Have a watch, and let us know what you think.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Top 10 African countries with the most natural resources.

[African Stream @african_stream]

WHY AFRICANS STILL NEED TO ‘GO EXTERNAL’

Go ‘external’ - that’s what African nations do every time they need anything. So alleges Zimbabwean pan-African activist Brian Kagoro in this snippet from a speech he gave at a recent security symposium in Rwanda. Be it defence, finance, development - we’re dependent on our former colonisers for help. And that’s no accident. He says they left us with weak institutions that made us dependent on them - intellectually, economically and in terms of security. The old ‘divide-and-rule’ keeps striking again and again. Is he being too harsh? And if not - what’s the answer?

Video credit: @Kigali Today

[Zimbabwean-Xhosa 🇿🇼 🇲🇿 @SandileMakeba]

Today, the Ndebele people took the streets of Bulawayo to celebrate the life and the legacy of their founding father, the first King of the Ndebele nation, King Mzilikazi, who led them from KZN, South Africa, in 1823 to Zimbabwe. Mzilikazi broke away from Shaka, the Zulu King.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"We have never been racist..."

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Some interesting fact about the world richest country with regards to mineral resources Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 - DRC

1. DR Congo is the world's richest country with regards to mineral resources, it has an estimated $23 Trillion worth of mineral deposit still untapped. If properly utilized, DR Congo will be both the largest net-exporter of natural resources and net-producer of finished goods in the world.

2. Congo DR is the world's largest producer of cobalt, it accounts for nearly 60% of the world's cobalt production. Unfortunately, it's exported to make engines for cars, planes, ceramic and batteries for electrical appliances.

3. DR Congo is accounts for 80% of the world's Coltan production, this is used to produce phones, laptops and accessories for top companies at the expense of child labour.

4. DR Congo has a large uranium deposit. Infact, the atomic bombs for the World War 2 had her mineral resources sought from Congo DR and it produced 80% of America's nuclear weapon.

5. DR Congo has the world's second largest diamond reserves, and is the third diamond producing country after Russia and Botswana.

6. DR Congo is one of the world's largest gold producer, it accounts for majority of the gold smuggled out of Africa through Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda to Dubai. Its artisanal gold is one of the most sought after gold.

7. DR Congo is so rich that so many sources claim that one can dig out minerals with his bare hands.

8. DR Congo is ranked the 80th largest oil producer producing over 4.1% of it's oil reserve per annum.

9. The Congo rainforest is home to 600 tree species and 10,000 animal species. Some of its most famous residents include forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, okapi, leopards, hippos, and lions.

10. DR Congo is a top wood exporting country, also the Congo basin is home to the largest mineral deposit in the world having wood, oil, diamonds, gold and coltan.

11. Congo DR is a net exporter of entertainment with music being one of it's largest export mostly in the 90s.

#Africa

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Africa is so endowed in natural resources like gold, diamonds, oil, cotton, and copper etc, yet African people are poor because the world exploits most of these minerals using several African Puppets leaders who are extremely corrupt.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The shocking untold truth about Patrice Lumumba of Congo 🇨🇩, what they don’t want you to know.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Over 1 MILLION people gathered in London to protest Israel’s genøcide ✊🏻

This represents 1/8 of the population of London!

And is one of the largest protests in the history of Great Britain 🇬🇧🇵🇸

[African Stream @african_stream]

‘AFRICA FELT LIKE HOME STRAIGHT AWAY’

If you’re in the diaspora, your first visit to Africa can be life-changing. That’s what happened to KD Bowe from The Certified Man podcast. In this clip, he relates how - as a Black man from America - stepping onto African soil in Johannesburg felt like returning home. He made an instant connection with the land of his ancestors and was gripped by an overwhelming sensation of being “reunited with the soil of the DNA from which I came.”

Descendants of those kidnapped by Europeans and taken across the Atlantic were denied their culture, heritage, language and identity. Slaves were forced to adopt their master’s name, making it impossible for later generations to trace their African roots.

Do you agree that “we have to align ourselves with the original design for us”?

Video credit: @KDBowe

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

The Greeks and Romans once knelt down to us. Admiration turned into jealousy which led to contempt. "We have a beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world." Marcus Mosiah Garvey

[Lauren Allison @cecild84]

If Burkina Faso is as poor as they say, why is it able to do more for its citizens, than the so called richer people?

[Brother Legend @BigBroLGND]

Today’s HipHop culture is a DEATH CULT and black people pay the price:

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

"We Killed 6 Million in Congo 🇨🇩 and Asia." John Stockwell, a former senior CIA official who went undercover, documents the horrific human cost of the organization's clandestine activities across the globe. Stockwell worked with the CIA in Africa for the majority of his 13-year tenure.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Africans would rather import food from Ukraine - a country at war - than from another African country.

We import over $100 billion of food from other parts of the world but impose prohibitive tariffs on food from within African. Make it make sense