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Starstuff Mother. Spiritual Warrior. Content Producer. Creator. Native African.

[JH @JH69124466]

@Our_DA Eskom’s business model:

1. Charge you for electricity.
2. Don’t deliver electricity.
3. Blame 'maintenance.'
4. Repeat.

If any private company did this, they'd be sued for fraud.

#Loadshedding

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Here’s why Māori people in New Zealand/Aotearoa feel the pain of Palestinians living through genocide.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

Did Nigeria go too far? Hmmm

[TimeTraveler @SensitiveBlack_]

Nigeria wipes the floow with the rest of the continent. Amen.

[AfricanFashionHoney @AfricanFashionn]

Looks from the Bridgerton ball hosted in Johannesburg. (Thread)

1. Priscy Ojo 🇳🇬
#BridgertonS3

[Thabang Housekid @Realhousekid]

First frame wu Mam Tryphinah Mngomezulu obeka sebenzela u Jacques Homan and Annemi Homan second frame🙏🏿

Saturday uMam Tryphinah went to work ka Homan as a helper ar Secunda but she never came back home abantwana bakhe bazamile fonella le couple to ask about…

(Open Thread)

[TimeTraveler @SensitiveBlack_]

And they don't owe you bo maR5k, it's serious monies. Industry professionals, especially people of colour, are disrespected in this industry. #

[TimeTraveler @SensitiveBlack_]

Yho, ngaze nga stressed about money like I did not just work right through 2023 to date. TV production and the entertainment industry is the pits kids. Don't be fooled. All because companies commit Theft of Services like it's nothing. #SATVProduction

[TimeTraveler @SensitiveBlack_]

I think there are very few unreliable unstable professional industries that match working in the TV industry in #SouthAfrica. I need to bhodla because this is giving abusive uncle in the family that no one wants to confront. #SATV SATVProduction

[khanki @TboozeSA]

No one "ignores the elephant in the room and focus on a spider climbing the wall" better than African elders. They'll ignore molesting uncles and cheating husbands, but when it's time to talk about whether you greeted when you walked in, they'll show up like Avengers in Endgame

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

In only 4 yrs 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 #Africa

[Ottilia Anna MaSibanda @MaS1banda]

120 years ago today ovaHerero launched a rebellion in Namibia.
7 months later the genocide of ovaHerero started.
German General Lothar von Trotha issued the annihilation order, calling it "a race war" against "non-humans"

It would last 4 years.

Never forget.
🤞🏾

[S U N R I S E ✨ @sheabutterhun]

There is no such thing as Khoisan. That’s a name coined by a European foreigner who couldn’t pronounce the clicks. The Western Cape was known as ‘EmaXhoseni’. But due to difficulty in pronunciation they said ‘Khoisan’. To prove this, ask a European unfamiliar with clicks to say EmaXhoseni and watch them say Ema-Khoisan.

Case closed 👩🏾‍⚖️

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Renowned Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua took part in serial rape and abuse, #BBCAfricaEye has discovered.

Forced abortions and other atrocities are alleged by dozens of ex-followers of the charismatic preacher. https://t.co/Q0mLSmZCcA

[Sweetz @NundweC]

TB Joshua's daughter: My dad was a monster.
Strangers on the internet: They are attacking him because he was Black.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The Story of Emperor (Mansa) Musa Keita I, the richest man who ever lived.
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Owner of an incalculable fortune, the African king commanded the empire of Mali in the beginning of the 14th century known as Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata and the Lion of Mali II.

Many experts believe that Mansa Musa (1280-1337), the king of Timbuktu, was the richest person in history. According to historians the West African kingdom of Musa was probably the largest gold producer in the world at a time when gold was in high demand.

The Mali Empire was a pre-colonial African Empire, from the Middle Ages, existing between 1235 to 1670, in the Manden region, in present-day Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and the South of the Western Seara. This Empire was one of the most powerful in the history of mankind and one of the richest in the Middle Ages.

Musa Keita I assumed power in 1312 at a time of prosperity for several African kingdoms. Upon assuming the government of Mali, he gained the title of Mansa (which means king) and expanded the wealth of the empire that was concentrated in the era of gold and salt, products highly valued at the time.
At its height, the empire's extension covered an area of ​​approximately 1.2 million square kilometers.

In 1324 he began a great journey to the city of Mecca, sacred to the Muslim people. With a caravan of 60,000 men, including soldiers, civilians and his servants, and with a hundred street vendors carrying gold bars.

During this journey, Musa stopped in Cairo, capital of Egypt, and decided to do a simple act of charity: donating gold. But he left so much gold that it caused an inflationary crisis in the country. It took some for the economy to recover.

The Emperor died in 1337, after 25 years of power, leaving schools, mosques, libraries and museums as a legacy. The mosque of Djinquereber, still exists today...

His figure was so marked in 1375, he was illustrated in the Atlas Catalan, one of the main references for studying the medieval period.

The text on the map says "This black lord is called Muça Mali, lord of the blacks of Guinea. So abundant is the gold that has been found in his country that he is the richest and noblest king in all the land."

#Africa

[ram @Ra_Matau]

@Joe__Bassey -A child doesn't belong to the father or mother but the ancestors🔥

Naming ceremony and ritual, a child is named after the ancestors

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The good mother knows what her children will eat. ~Akan Proverb

Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters. ~Ganda Proverb

A child is an axe; when it cuts you, you still pick it up and put it on your shoulder. ~Bemba Proverb

Only a mother would carry the child that bites. ~Nigerian Proverb

He who fears the crying of a child, will cry himself. ~Swahili Proverb

A child doesn’t breastfeed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive. ~African Proverb

Do not make the dress before the child is born. ~Tanzanian Proverb

You only understand the joys of parenthood when you have your first child, you only understand the mystery of death when in mourning. ~Bahaya Proverb