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A houseplant . . .

[Misandry Olympian 🐝🤠 @Zoemkoena]

There's not a single thing in an African country that should be predominantly white, especially since they're the minority

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky" ~ Nina Simone

[UFS @UFSweb]

𝗨𝗙𝗦 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Menstrual products are used by millions of South Africans every month – but new research from the University of the Free State has found that every sanitary pad and pantyliner tested contained hormone-disrupting chemicals, even those marketed as ‘chemical-free’.

UFS scientists are calling for greater transparency, stronger safety standards, and continued research to protect consumer health.

Read more: https://t.co/H6tYXd0wpV
#UFSResearch #WomensHealth #MenstrualHealth

[𝑺𝒅𝒖 @shufflesdu]

The kids are alright🖤

[Q♥️ @Ayindim_]

What an era 🥹♥️

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Miriam Makeba (right) with Nina Simone, c 1970s. Image Source: Nina Simone Musical (X)

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Sophie Gwangwa sees her talented Jazz musician son Jonas, after 15 years, c 1976. Image Source: Drum Magazine/Drum Social Histories

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Vincent Tshabalala (1942-2017) was a South African professional golfer. He won a number of tournaments organised by the non-white Tournament Players Association and in 1976 he won the French Open. He was barred from the Southern African Tour in his prime during the 1970s as a result of apartheid; however with assistance from Gary Player he gained entry to tournaments on the European Tour. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection

[majaliwa @kev_keviski]

@Joe__Bassey @Rakgadi_EM Freedom cannot be won by pleading for morality from the opposite side. Freedom is fought for. You cannot 'reason' with imperialists to stop screwing your resources. You get serious and you fight for your countries!

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

So SABC's online portal has uploaded this series. It'll be up all through April. Please watch it. Tough to get through, but extremely necessary. The more eyes we have on work like this, the more important stories we'll have on our screens.

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

"They keep telling me I will die like Gaddafi, Thomas Sankara or any young leader that tried to make Africa better. I am not scared and I won’t regret dying for my people" ~ Ibrahim Traore (President of Burkina Faso)

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Patrice Lumumba Last Letter.

He was the first legally elected prime minister of D.R Congo and was assassinated in 1961 following a military coup supported by U.S.A & Belgian imperialism which was admitted by the State Dept in 2013.

My dear wife,

I am writing these words to you, not knowing whether they will ever reach you, or whether I shall be alive when you read them.
Throughout my struggle for the independence of our country I have never doubted the victory of our sacred cause, to which I and my comrades have dedicated all our lives.
But the only thing which we wanted for our country is the right to a worthy life, to dignity without pretence, to independence without restrictions.
This was never the desire of the Belgian colonialists and their Western allies, who received, direct or indirect, open or concealed, support from some highly placed officials of the United Nations, the body upon which we placed all our hope when we appealed to it for help.
They seduced some of our compatriots, bought others and did everything to distort the truth and smear our independence.
What I can say is this—alive or dead, free or in jail—it is not a question of me personally.
The main thing is the Congo, our unhappy people, whose independence is being trampled upon.
That is why they have shut us away in prison and why they keep us far away from the people. But my faith remains indestructible.
I know and feel deep in my heart that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of their internal and external enemies, that they will rise up as one in order to say 'No' to colonialism, to brazen, dying colonialism, in order to win their dignity in a clean land.
We are not alone. Africa, Asia, the free peoples and the peoples fighting for their freedom in all corners of the world will always be side by side with the millions of Congolese who will not give up the struggle while there is even one colonialist or colonialist mercenary in our country.
To my sons, whom I am leaving and whom, perhaps, I shall not see again, I want to say that the future of the Congo is splendid and that I expect from them, as from every Congolese, the fulfilment of the sacred task of restoring our independence and our sovereignty.
Without dignity there is no freedom, without justice there is no dignity and without independence there are no free men.
Cruelty, insults and torture can never force me to ask for mercy, because I prefer to die with head high, with indestructible faith and profound belief in the destiny of our country than to live in humility and renounce the principles which are sacred to me.
The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations.
It will be the history which will be taught in the countries which have won freedom from colonialism and its puppets.
Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.
Do not weep for me. I know that my tormented country will be able to defend its freedom and its independence.
Long live the Congo!
Long live Africa!
Thysville prison
Patrice LUMUMBA

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

2 days ago, my friend @wode_maya uploaded one of the most important mini-documentaries ever produced by an African YouTuber, on the subject of Orania, the racially exclusive, Afrikaans-only pseudo-republic in South Africa.

He did what he does excellently, which is listen, ask the right questions, and allow the subjects to express themselves in their own words. It was important that he did that because this was my first opportunity to hear the Oranian cause explained in full by an Oranian who did not fit the stereotype of a racist Afrikaner, and who for the most part, came off as quite well-spoken and thoughtful.

Listening to him also gave me a very important epiphany about Oranians and by extension, much of Southern Africa's white settler population - they are merely IN Africa. They are not OF Africa, they certainly are not FOR Africa, and they are incapable of understanding why that is a problem for everyone else on this continent.

I listened to him talk about how Afrikaners aspire only to work their farms and be left alone. Apparently, having been driven to the brink of extinction by the British, the Afrikaner ambition is to preserve his culture to the fullest extent possible on the land that his ancestors colonised in the 17th century. I listened to him talk about how he "loves Africa" and he "feels like a part of the continent," while detailing plans to turn Orania into something resembling a self-sustaining lunar settlement completely isolated from the "Africa" in question.

I listened to him and realised that after 400 years, he and his kind are still 17th century Dutch colonisers. "Africa" to them is exactly like an Australian FIFO mining town - an economic opportunity.

Meanwhile, what makes Africa "Africa" is not the rich soil of the Transvaal, the lush Okavango Delta, the picturesque Namibian veldt, the dusty Kalahari desert, the turbulent Niger, Congo, and Nile river basins, the grassy Sahel, or the vast Sahara Desert. Africa is not Mount Kenya or Mount Kilimanjaro, neither is it the Congolese rainforest or the Ethiopian Highlands. It is not the rich agricultural potential of its soils or the natural resources bursting from its mines, or the exploitable natural beauty of its coastlines.

All of those things are merely geographical features, not different from geographical phenomena in Antarctica, or in Australia, or on the moon, or on Mars, or on Titan. The ONLY defining characteristic of Africa - and the only identity layer by which a person may become an African is THE PEOPLE. Without the people, Africa is merely a piece of space rock jutting out of an ocean. The PEOPLE are what give Africa its value and its identity.

You cannot become an African, claim Africa as your home, or profess to "love Africa" if your relationship with Africa is not defined and centred first and foremost around African people. Africa is not, and has never been an empty land without a people - this is the world's oldest inhabited continent and the world's 2nd most populous continent. It is and has always been fully owned and occupied by the world's oldest people.

So the intense irony of a Dutchman standing on African soil telling an African that he "loves Africa" and he "has no other home," while his entire life's purpose is to stay as separate from African people as possible - while holding on to African land and mounting statues of people who killed Africans for sport on that land, and defending it by saying "it's private property" and comparing European genocidists to Shaka Zulu - gave me a very clear insight into the animating mindset of this white settler population.

They are incapable of understanding what it means to be African, their lives are defined by their weird settler-capitalism, and it would be much better for everyone concerned if they took Trump's offer and found their way to places like the US and Australia, which offer the ultimate white settler's dream - a land without native people (because they're are all dead).

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

After leaving his throne to chase knowledge but became lòst in the sea and reaching America thinking that it was India, Còlumbus noted in his journal that some of the native people they met there told them that Blàck skinned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in fold-tipped spears.

Còlumbus also saw the metal goods from West Africa and even got some of them directly from the native Americans.

Chèmical analysis from these tips found by Columbus on spears in Amèrican show that the gold came from Africa.

The world was already connected. After the fall of Granada, thousands of Moors left Spain that had been their home for seven hundred years to avoid living under Spanish yoke.

They migrateď to Africa. Some stayed at North African coast and improved their knowledge of navigation. That knowledge may be the one used by Emperor Abubakari II to reach America.

Most ancient civilizations had already circùmnavigated the globe. They just did not make of it a big dèal claiming that they had disc0vered it.

[Mimmles 🇵🇸 @UberMimz_15]

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[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

Today marks Thomas Sankara’s 75th birthday.
📸: Patrick Aventurier

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This orangutan tried to fight off a bulldozer nears its forest home. This broke my heart 😢

[The Eye is Right 💫 @the9isright]

It's crazy how we're STILL having that conversation 30 years later how people STILL play the without rap versions of songs with Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes on it.

THREAD ➖️👁💜🔥

[Dear Silas @dearsilas]

Didn’t see that coming….

[Sade @sadearchive]

Sade has released the official music video for “Young Lion” from the album TRANSA. Available now on YouTube. 🥹