Many global music genres are celebrated today without enough credit to the African people and African diasporic communities who helped create them. 🎶🌍 Jazz was born from Black American creativity, rooted in blues, ragtime, spirituals, and African rhythmic traditions. Samba carries deep Afro-Brazilian roots shaped by enslaved Africans who preserved rhythm, movement, and ceremony in Brazil. Tango was influenced by African communities in the Río de la Plata region, though that history is often minimized. Garage and many electronic scenes were built on Black innovation in club culture before being repackaged by mainstream industries. Cumbia also carries African influence through drums, movement, and coastal Afro-Indigenous histories in Latin America. African creativity has shaped the soundtrack of the world often before the world was ready to acknowledge it.
Marlon Brando sitting down on The Dick Cavett Show, June 12, 1973. This was right after he refused to accept his Oscar for The Godfather, and famously sent a Native American activist, Sacheen Littlefeather, to the stage to protest instead. When he got on this show, he completely refused to talk about his acting career. Instead, he dropped some heavy truths about how the system completely rewrites history. He basically breaks down how the conqueror and the oppressor are always the ones who get to write the history books, twisting the narrative to make themselves look like the good guys.
Nigeria’s fintech industry is facing a major infrastructure test.
As the CBN pushes data localisation, can local data centres support the scale and reliability Nigeria’s payments ecosystem demands?
Operators are raising concerns about capacity and compliance costs.
THE BEST AND MOST DETAILED DOCUMENTARY ON TINUBU'S FAILURE... This girl really took her time to compile Tinubu's propagandas and shortcomings. Retweet massively till it gets to the Jagabandits abeg.
‘The Global Extraction Machine Runs on Africa's Trauma’: Alien Cozmo
Content creator Alien Cozmo recently laid out how Western empires have exploited Africa through centuries of colonialism that has morphed over time, arguing “African trauma is the grease for the gears of the developed world.”
What do you make of his call to action? Let us know in the comments.
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PHARMACIST: GMO WILL RUIN AFRICAN COCOA
The Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa reports that Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana produce 46 per cent of the world’s cocoa. However, how will crop yields fare with the Ghanaian government allowing CRISPR generated cocoa trees to enter its farmlands? US pharmacist Layne Kilpatrick raises the question.
So tell us: Is it a good idea to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to African countries? Let us know in the comments.
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