This photograph depicts a young man wearing a traditional Ekpo "ghost" mask from the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria || 1932 🇳🇬
📸 British anthropologist G. I. Jones
Black identity is fungible lol we literally become whatever people concoct in their minds? You can be an effeminate black male one day and then a brutish rapist the next.
None of this shit makes sense, racism is the ideology of fools.
Nigeria’s first president played college football in West Virginia with Black Americans.
Our histories are connected. You cannot divide us no matter how hard you try.
Watch a Mau Mau revolutionary explain how he resisted British colonialism, and why the fight isn't over.
Maina wa Murigu took up arms against British colonial rule and is still waiting for his land back, more than six decades after independence.
Speaking from Nairobi on Kenya's 63rd Madaraka Day, he described fighting British soldiers with machetes, seizing their weapons and retreating into the forests. Madaraka Day, marked every June 1, commemorates the day Kenya achieved self-rule from Britain in 1963.
"Our parents died without ever getting justice," he said. "We are soon following them."
Britain's response to the uprising was a state of emergency lasting from 1952 to 1959. The Kenya Human Rights Commission estimates 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed. 160,000 were detained. Nazi-style concentration camps held over 1.5 million more.
Documents recording the atrocities were later destroyed or hidden by British authorities.
"I don't believe in paying athletes. And I come from a small country. I come from a sport that doesn't necessarily pay athletes very well.
And I still don't believe we should be paying athletes at the Olympic Games."
- IOC President, Kirsty Coventry