Did you know that, Walter Rodney exposed how europe became wealthy by impoverishing africa. he was assassinated before reaching his 39th birthday. That’s enough reason why you should read his book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”.
Walk into a Japanese home and you'll find wabi-sabi. Walk into a Swedish home and you'll find Scandinavian design. A French home carries French country.
Walk into many African homes and you'll find borrowed Scandinavian and Nordic ideas on every wall and shelf.
Why don't we represent ourselves the way others represent themselves?
@Pixxelbuzz@setanindeta You can support Sifuna without adding wood to the tribal fire.
Just when you think the movement is starting to think like one you get statements like these.
You mention the crucifixion of Jesus on your behalf, yet seem to overlook that your ancestors were subjected to hanging, burning, and live burial by those who propagated the teachings of Jesus.
Musalia 4 Billion
Muturi 700 Million
Duale 851 Million
Mutua 420 Million
Wahome 390 Million
Ladies and gentlemen a total of over 6 Billion Shillings appeared for vetting in bunge today to join the mama mboga government.
"I'm black ,not because of a curse ,but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia . I'm a drop of Sun under the earth "
~Frantz Fanon
The world needs to understand that Congo is going through a silent genocide. The condition in Congo get worsened every day as over 6.9 Million peoplehave been killed already, millions have been displaced & millions are starving.
DON'T BE SILENT! SPEAK UP FOR CONGO🇨🇩
#FreeCongo 🇨🇩
I’ll never forgive the American media for pushing the narrative that Michael Jackson had a plastic surgery because he wanted to be white, when in reality he was dealing with vitiligo, a condition that changed his skin colour.
King Njoya of Bamum invented an entire writing system from scratch, refined it three times in fourteen years, and the French destroyed it before it turned 25.
In 1895, after a dream told him to, King Njoya of the Bamum kingdom in Cameroon's Grassfields set out to give his people their own script. He didn't do it alone. He invited his subjects to contribute symbols, then personally oversaw the editing. The first version, in 1896, had somewhere between 400 and 600 pictographic and ideographic characters, too many to be practical for everyday writing. That's the test: can a king turn a symbol system nobody can memorize into one an entire kingdom can actually use.
He passed it in stages. By 1903, Njoya had cut the script down to a phonetic syllabary of around 80 signs, called A-ka-u-ku. He built schools to teach it, set up a printing press to produce it at scale, and used it to record law, medicine, history, and court proceedings that had only existed by memory before. Bamum became one of the only kingdoms in colonial Africa running its own literary tradition in its own invented script, not the colonizer's alphabet.
Then Cameroon became a French colony in 1919. The French banned the script from schools, destroyed Njoya's printing press, and burned much of what had been written in it. Njoya was exiled from his own kingdom in 1931 and died there. By the time Cameroon became independent, the script had fallen to the edge of extinction.
It's Bamum's own descendants doing the rebuilding now, not colonial permission. A project based in Foumban has spent the past two decades teaching A-ka-u-ku to a new generation, the same script King Njoya built by hand a century before anyone told him he couldn't.