Janet Butler

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

The disgrace is with all this wealth and talent, very little of it is plowed back into improving governance and public education and facilities in the county

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

Inside America's Richest Black American Suburbs (2026)

[TheTruePath @The_Truepath]

15 things you should do with your mom while she's
still here:

1. Record her voice

[Nomoneynohoney @forrealnomoney]

99% of trotros used to be delivery or cargo cars in Europe. That’s why the driver’s seat is different from all the other seats,they are locally welded into the car.
That’s why many don’t survive crashes.
Ideally this is criminal. But Ghana we dey. Only poor man dey commit crime.

[Syra🌵 @FourEyesNoLies]

I still can't believe humans were gifted a planet full of trees, fruits, water, wildlife, sunshine and then they invented debt, capitalism, war and AI.

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

Start with fixing the roads! That would do wonders for productivity, stress and commerce!

[Gemini_DNA♊️🇬🇭 @gemini_dna]

There are soo many things wrong with this country that you don't even know where to start from 🤦

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is not practicing dictatorship, despite how the West tries to paint him. He is actively working toward progress for his country. Furthermore, he is not ruling alone; he works alongside active ministers and a Prime Minister who oversees most of the government's operations.

[United Way @UnitedWay]

A clean outfit for school or work. Diapers for a baby. Basic household items after a move or crisis.

When money is tight, even essentials like these can be hard to afford.

Last year, 211 made more than 536,000 referrals for clothing, personal, and household assistance.

Need support? Start with #211.

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

If we don't #fixourroads and our hospitality infrastructure, who would want to come here?

[UTV Ghana @utvghana]

Bozoma's Marriage Ceremony: Ghana should make it a national agenda to promote itself as one of the world’s leading destinations for marriage ceremonies - Vida Adutwumwaa

#UnitedShowbiz

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

This is outrageous. Instead, why not impose a monetary value limit on what can come in duty free?

[nana aba @thenanaaba]

🤣🤣🤣

[Africa Rebirth @africa_rebirth]

In 1974, a Congolese scholar walked into a UNESCO symposium in Cairo and did something no African academic had been given a real platform to do before: mount a direct, multidisciplinary challenge to the idea that ancient Egypt wasn’t a Black African civilization.

Théophile Obenga was born in 1936 in what’s now the Democratic Republic of Congo, moved to France for his education, and built one of the most unusual academic profiles of his generation, advanced degrees in philosophy, history, linguistics, and Egyptology, fluent or conversant in seven or more languages, including Middle Egyptian, the language of the pharaohs themselves. That range mattered. When he and Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop traveled to Cairo for the UNESCO symposium on “The Peopling of Ancient Egypt,” Obenga didn’t argue from ideology, he argued from the original Greek texts historians used to define the ancient world, alongside linguistic and historical evidence connecting ancient Egyptian language to Bantu and other African language families.

Their case: ancient Egypt was a Black African civilization, not the Mediterranean or Near Eastern one Western Egyptology had comfortably assumed for over a century. Mainstream Egyptology has never fully accepted this framing, genetic and historical research on the topic remains genuinely contested and debated among scholars today. But the Cairo symposium itself became a landmark moment specifically because Obenga and Diop, for the first time on that kind of stage, forced the field to actually debate the question rather than dismiss it outright.

Obenga kept building from there. He led the Centre International des Civilisations Bantu in Gabon, edited the journal Ankh for decades, and produced work tracing philosophical and scientific traditions from Dogon, Yoruba, and Vai communities in West Africa back to a shared root in Pharaonic Egypt, an ambitious, still-debated thesis linking the whole continent’s intellectual history into one continuous line.

Whether or not every claim holds up under modern genetic scrutiny, Obenga did something undeniable: he made African scholars active participants in defining Africa’s own ancient history, instead of permanent subjects of someone else’s conclusions about it.

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

@Nipi_220 A coin purse

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

This is indeed a marketing coup, but without the tourism infrastructure to back it up, Ghana will lose visitors and credibility.

[SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 @SIKAOFFICIAL1]

Ghana is set to make Premier League history as “Visit Ghana” becomes the main shirt sponsor of Sunderland AFC in a record £10 million partnership.

The deal, which makes Ghana the first African nation to feature as a front-of-shirt sponsor on a Premier League kit, will give the country significant global exposure as Sunderland prepares to unveil the new partnership ahead of its clash with Arsenal.

[📸: FootyHeadlines]

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

The emphasis here is the "factual" depiction of the sizes of the landmasses on the planet

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

The world map you've known all your life is wrong! Nearly every country at the UN voted to adopt a new map that shows a more accurate size of Africa after ~500 years of "symbolic minimization."

Only the US voted against it.

I explained why this is important on CNN

[Tiina NYENSTYA👌🇺🇬🇷🇼🇰🇪🇹🇿. @KabandizeAbel8]

Africa's greatest challenge is epistemic: how Africans see and understand themselves @AndrewMwenda

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

Find the lie. And, cite the lie.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In the summer of 1800, Gabriel, a literate enslaved blacksmith in Virginia, planned one of the largest organized rebellions against slavery in the early history of the United States. Often called Gabriel Prosser, he was enslaved near Richmond and used his skills, literacy and connections with other enslaved workers to organize a movement that aimed to challenge the institution that denied them freedom. Gabriel planned to lead hundreds of enslaved people toward Richmond, seize weapons and take control of key parts of the city. His rebellion was not an impulsive act of violence. It was a carefully organized attempt by enslaved people to claim the freedom that slavery had systematically denied them.

The uprising was planned for August 30, 1800, but heavy rain caused the group to postpone the operation. Before they could regroup, the authorities learned about the plans after two enslaved men informed their enslaver, Mosby Sheppard, who then alerted Virginia Governor James Monroe. The state responded by mobilizing the militia and searching for those involved. Gabriel escaped downriver toward Norfolk, but he was eventually captured after another enslaved man betrayed his location in exchange for a promised reward. Gabriel was returned to Richmond and questioned, but he refused to provide the authorities with the information they wanted. He and his two brothers were eventually executed alongside 23 other enslaved people connected to the planned uprising. The rebellion never reached Richmond as Gabriel had intended, but its consequences extended far beyond the men who were executed. Virginia lawmakers responded by tightening restrictions on both enslaved and free Black people, including measures restricting Black education, assembly and other forms of independence. The response demonstrated how seriously white authorities viewed the possibility of organized resistance among enslaved people.

Gabriel's rebellion is important because it challenges the idea that enslaved people simply accepted their condition until emancipation arrived decades later. Resistance to slavery took many forms, from escaping plantations and slowing work to organizing revolts and demanding freedom through political action. Gabriel and those who joined him understood that slavery was not permanent or natural, and they were willing to risk their lives trying to destroy it. More than two centuries later, his story has continued to be remembered as part of the long struggle for Black freedom. In 2002, Richmond officially commemorated Gabriel and described him as a patriot and freedom fighter. In 2007, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine issued an informal pardon for Gabriel and the other participants. Their story remains significant because the rebellion was defeated, but the desire for freedom that inspired it could not be hanged, imprisoned or legislated away.

#BlackHistory #GabrielProsser #BlackResistance

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Cheikh Anta Diop spent much of his career challenging the way African history had been written and questioning the separation of ancient Egypt from the rest of the African continent. The Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and political thinker argued that ancient Egyptian civilization should be studied within an African historical framework and that understanding Egypt was essential to reconstructing the deeper history of African societies. His work emerged at a time when many influential accounts of antiquity treated Egypt as culturally detached from sub-Saharan Africa, while colonial scholarship often portrayed Black Africa as having little significant history before European contact.

Diop’s description of ancient Egypt as a “Negro civilization” reflected the racial terminology and intellectual debates of his era. Today, historians and biological anthropologists generally approach ancient Egyptian identity with more caution because modern racial categories such as “Black” and “white” do not map neatly onto populations that lived thousands of years ago. Ancient Egypt also existed for more than three millennia and maintained extensive connections with Nubia, the Mediterranean, the Levant and other parts of Africa. Its population was therefore not necessarily identical across every period or region. At the same time, Egypt was unquestionably an African civilization geographically, and its relationships with Nubia and other African societies were substantial and historically important.

Diop’s larger contribution went beyond a debate about the appearance of ancient Egyptians. He demanded that African civilizations be studied as producers of history rather than as societies existing on its margins. His books, including The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, influenced generations of African and African diaspora scholars and helped push conversations about African antiquity, historical continuity and the lingering influence of colonial assumptions in scholarship. Scholars continue to debate parts of his arguments, but the questions he forced historians to confront remain significant: who gets to define Africa’s past, which civilizations are considered part of African history, and how much of what we assume about the ancient world was shaped by much later ideas about race?

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Architecture is one of the strongest indicators of civilization and development.

Yet in most African countries, a continent with deep architectural history, we build failed copies of Western structures that could stand anywhere because they belong nowhere. Cement blocks. Zinc roofs. Buildings that could be in any city on earth.

This was never about materials or undermining other traditions.

We have strong building traditions of our own that we abandoned to copy someone else’s, instead of refining what already belonged to us.

And the proven models already exist in writing. Hassan Fathy’s “Architecture for the Poor” documented an entire mud-brick rural housing model built for New Gourna, Egypt, decades before “sustainable local materials” became a buzzword.

David Adjaye’s “Adjaye Africa Architecture” surveyed cities across the continent to prove there’s a real, documented design language here, not a blank page waiting for foreign import.

The tragedy is that the next generation doesn’t even know these traditions or these books exist.

Architecture and engineering schools here recite every era of Western architectural history in detail, but most students graduate without ever reading a single African architect or model that’s proven what works on our own soil.

How are we ever going to build what belongs here, if we’re never taught it exists?

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

@Maukeni_ is telling the TRUTH! I hope power is listening

[Auntie Keni @Maukeni_]

That permanent dance between corruption and justice have taught us that it is okay to steal from the nation and its citizens.

#civicsignal #whyGhanaisfailing

[Janet Butler @JanetBuGhans]

@AvaBennettqk An ice tray for making ice in the freezer