Thrive African Girl

a community FOR & BY African girls & women. 🤷🏾‍♀️WE deserve the world & our community is our most valuable resource.🔊 to our podcast: @thrivetable

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

Major update: for the past few months our media resources have been channeled into co-creating a podcast @ThriveTable. Go bless your ears!!

[United Nations Office to the African Union - UNOAU @UNOAU_]

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[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

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[This Is Africa @ThisIsAfricaTIA]

In a landmark ruling South Africa’s Equality Court has ruled that it’s now illegal to publicly display the apartheid flag in South Africa. The court ruled that displaying the apartheid flag constitutes hate speech.
https://t.co/Sb2Prwoi6k

[Caroline @cbowah]

Day 3: African Feminist Macroeconomic Academy
Financialisation:
One take away: Lending instruments do not take into account unpaid work.

👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
#AFMA 2019
#femonomics

[Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh]

The Unsung Sheroes of Ghana’s Independence

A thread!

[Iyeye Nelson (OGA Nelson) @theoga_nelson]

Meet Capt. Simisola the pilot who averted the near tragedy on Air Peace yesterday when her plane
Airpeace Boeing 737 landing gear collapses after dropping 30 ft and shortly before landing in Lagos.
A queen . I Stan

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

Thoughts on digital recolonization?

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

“We have to strive to make “self and collective care a daily political act.” You have to not simply survive. To live, in spite of the emotional oppression is the core of resisting.” https://t.co/OIKwbxiHA8

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

@CHR_HumanRights Just wondering if one can apply for 2 programs at once within the same application cycle. E.g - this & the HRDA program and attend which ever one they get admitted to?

[Friday BBM @bwesigye]

Thomas Sankara was a Socialist. Sankara was an internationalist. Sankara was a Feminist. Sankara was a Pan Africanist.

Stop denigrating his name by calling free market capitalist dictators who serve US imperialist interests in Africa and beyond the Sankaras of today. Just Stahp

[HEVA Fund @HEVAFund]

APPLY NOW: The Young Women in Creative Enterprise Fund is open to women-owned and women-led early stage ventures operating in Kenya in digital media, live music, festivals, fairs/markets, hair, beauty and cosmetic products! Details: https://t.co/I05xRQ81vc #CreativeKE

[Green Belt Movement @GreenBeltMovmnt]

The August 7th Memorial Park Nairobi @MemorialParkKe will host this year's #WangariMaathaiDay celebration on March 3rd where H.E. @FirstLadyKenya will be officially opening the Wangari Maathai Conference Facility

[Friday BBM @bwesigye]

Victoria has no lake in Africa. Please call that lake by the names the people who have lived around it for centuries call it. Lake Victoria is not just fiction, it is an oppressive fantasy. To repeat it is to participate in the oppression. Victoria has no lake in Africa.

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

We have to have conversations that address safe spaces for women sans men and agency and consent in all our shared spaces. This is not okay.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

BREAKING: Pope Francis has confirmed reports that nuns have suffered and are still suffering sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests and bishops, and even being held as sexual slaves https://t.co/rNRYlFvpzn

[Gye Nyame-The African Warrior @kbd_warrior_su]

Africans should understand that it's possible to be a modern, developed, civilized country while still retaining culture and traditions. Japan is an example. Western wokeness is not the peak of civilization.

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

https://t.co/UwoRxhwbGf

[Njideka Françoise Harry @njidekaharry]

My 10 year old twin daughters got me these for #Christmas . To all the #womenentrepreneurs out there #KillingIt, don’t quit, don’t give up. 2019 will be the year. And see... our girls are watching us. They are rooting for us 🥊 #girlpower #socent

[Big Daddy Fabian @OmoAdebanke_]

This girl will not kill us in this house!😂😂😂😂😂

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

Wisdom!!

[Thrive African Girl @ThriveAfrican]

Thread #SexualHealthEducation

[FlyingDoctorsNigeria @FlyingDoctorsNG]

Did you know that in Africa, 53% of women of reproductive age, have an unmet need for modern contraception? Learn about different methods/types of contraception here https://t.co/TkCnC7qtuB