Africa did not need IKEA to know how to furnish a home.
Ten countries. Ten furniture traditions that carried spiritual authority, cultural identity and generational craft. And the brands today that are refusing to let it die.
Ghana first.
The Ashanti did not just make stools, they made thrones of identity. Every stool was carved from a single block of wood, the design specific to the owner’s status and lineage. The Golden Stool, the Sika Dwa Kofi, was believed to house the soul of the entire Ashanti nation and was never sat upon by any human being. When the British demanded it be surrendered in 1900, the Ashanti went to war over it because it was never furniture. It was nationhood carved from wood.
Girl to girl: study the patterns in your family. Look at what distracted, delayed, or derailed the women before you, then make intentional decisions to break those cycles.
refuse to be a victim of generational curses ❤️
Colonization robbed us of a lot mehn. We now look at things that were originally ours and call them foreign. Tattoos and body modification have deep roots in African culture
Yorubas have tribal marks and facial scarification. Igbos have uli. Fulanis mark identity and beauty on their faces. A tribe in Sudan cover their entire bodies in patterns
And all these were before colonization, when they told us it was “ungodly”. It’s sad how they’ve successfully taught us to forget who we were
Fake life ke
Im blocking everyone who doesnt know MANSA MUSA was the first a TRILLIONAIRE in the world…and YES AMERICA❗️🤌🏾 HE IS ALSO A BLACK MAN ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Slavery was probably 100x sicker than what we think it was.
I really see why older black folks don't rock with white people at all. They've seen some real atrocities in their life.