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It's another fresh day in Africa!

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

I’m watching this Colombia game, & an Afro-Colombian player, Yerry Mina, subs in for another Afro-Colombian, Jhon Lucumi, & my mind is just blown.
Mina is what Portuguese called enslaved West Africans from the Gold Coast because many of them were shipped from the slave fort El Mina in Ghana. And Lucumi comes from the Yoruba phrase Olu Kumi, meaning “My friend”, which is what enslaved Yoruba called each other in the Americas. Fascinating🤯

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Saba Saba Day: How 36 Years Ago Bold Kenyans Joined Africa’s Historic Wave Against One-Party Dictatorship
Today is Saba Saba Day (or Seven Seven in Kiswahili) in Kenya. It is observed every year as a people’s commemoration of the historic protests on 7 July 1990 that sparked the country’s “Second Liberation”. Those demonstrations helped dismantle the one-party dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi and his KANU party, and restored multi-party democracy.
The event formed part of a wider post-Cold War wave across Africa. In the space of just TWO YEARS, opposition forces won the first multi-party parliamentary elections in Cape Verde on 13 January 1991, leading to a peaceful handover of power.
On 26 March 1991, the 23-year military dictatorship of Moussa Traoré in Mali collapsed after he was arrested by his own soldiers amid days of bloody pro-democracy protests.
Then, on 4 April 1991, the Marxist-Leninist military regime of Mathieu Kérékou officially came to an end in Benin.
In Zambia, gentle strongman Kenneth Kaunda’s 27-year one-party rule ended on 2 November 1991 when Frederick Chiluba was sworn in after a landslide opposition victory.
And on 31 October 1991 in Madagascar, the dictatorial monopoly of Didier Ratsiraka effectively ended with the signing of the Convention of Panorama, which stripped him of power and transferred authority to a transitional opposition coalition ahead of the 1992 elections.
The democratic momentum then spread dramatically across Africa over the following decade.
Although the 1990 Saba Saba rally was violently suppressed, the momentum it generated proved unstoppable. Sustained civic pressure forced President Moi’s regime to give way a year later. In December 1991, Section 2A of the constitution was repealed, clearing the path for the return of multi-party democracy.
Notably, like today’s Gen Z protesters, the Saba Saba organisers did something highly tactical that was rarely copied elsewhere: they seized and owned both historical space and heroic narrative. They deliberately anchored their modern protest to Kenya’s anti-colonial past by choosing the Kamukunji Grounds in Nairobi.

In the 1950s, Kamukunji had been the very site where pre-independence freedom fighters held rallies demanding an end to British colonial rule. By insisting on gathering there in 1990, the pro-democracy leaders symbolically cast Moi’s KANU regime not merely as a bad government, but as a “black colonial master” – a framing that struck a deep chord with the public.

[LuziraBoy🇨🇩 @ZenjiSimon]

National Geographic considers the introduction of Nile perch into lake Victoria as the most devastating vertebrate extinctions in modern history and worst fresh water biological invasion, Uganda lost thousands of species of fish because some colonialists wanted Nile perch fish closer to them so they wouldn’t have to travel to lake Albert and murchison to get it!

[Baiko @baikosez]

While in the U.K You are stopped by the police but claim you can only speak Swahili ...
Then this fucker shows up😂😂😂🙆

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Ethiopia just earned $3 billion from coffee exports, though it is Africa's second-largest exporter behind Uganda, which reported $2.4 billion in April.
The reason for this earnings gap comes down to quality and bean type. Approximately 80% of Uganda's exports consist of lower-priced Robusta beans, which are easier to grow but fetch a lower price globally. Ethiopia, however, exports almost 100% premium Arabica coffee.
Because Ethiopia is the biological birthplace of Arabica, its beans are highly prized for their superior flavour, allowing them to command a massive price premium. Combined with recent quality reforms, Ethiopia makes far more money despite shipping a smaller physical volume of coffee. When will Uganda turn the tables?

[Eric Latiff @EricLatiff]

When we say Engineers in Kenya are a big problem, such are the instances we have in mind. This section of the highway has a Resident Engineer In-Charge. But they let a contractor pile a death trap on the road and feel nothing about it! @KeNHAKenya @TheIEK @EngineersBoard @davis_chirchir

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

Dg @KeNHAKenya what more do you need ? Very sad

[PoloMan @polo_man404]

Rakim spent 40 years in hip hop without a single Grammy nomination.

Not one. Zero. The man Eminem called "probably the greatest rapper of all time" was never even considered.

On May 8, 2026, that finally changed. Paid In Full was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Thirty eight years after the album that permanently changed how every rapper writes, delivers and thinks about lyricism.

Before Rakim, rappers rhymed at the end of lines. He changed that. Internal rhyme schemes, multi-syllable patterns, a cold and untouchable delivery nobody had heard before.

The Grammy Hall of Fame is not a Grammy. But after 40 years, it is recognition.

The God MC finally got his flowers.
Shot Out to William Michael Griffin AKA Rakim Allah 😎😎😁😁

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five was released as a single 44 years ago today.

[kettah @kettah]

@Ogwamor can @amisij even play this for that bad team of his?

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Take Five” by Dave Brubeck Quartet was recorded 67 years ago today.

Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever.

[Arun Yadav Kosli @ArunKosli]

बचपन से सुनते आए हैं चालाक लोमड़ी की कहानियां,

आज जीता जागता उदाहरण देख लो

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: Ukraine's drone revolution is the equivalent of gunpowder ending feudalism.

A townsman trained with an arquebus could take down a knight from 50 meters — and the entire medieval vassal system collapsed. What we're witnessing now is a shift of the same magnitude. 1/

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Poland vanished from the map for over a century, but Türkiye refused to recognize it. They even kept a seat reserved for the Polish ambassador at every royal court meeting.

Nearly 250 years later, that loyalty is still remembered.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Germany has around 25,000 castles, and most of them are ruins. The one in this photo, Burg Eltz, is one of only three in its whole region that war never destroyed.

The same family has lived in it since the year 1157. That comes to more than 850 years and somewhere around 33 generations, and it passed to the next one in 2018. The line in the original post holds up too. Germany really does have more castles than America has McDonald's, roughly 25,000 against about 13,500.

Almost none of the other castles got that kind of ending. Most went up when Germany was split into hundreds of small territories and every lord wanted his own fortress. Over the years they were burned down or picked apart in sieges, and plenty were just left to fall in. When the army of Louis XIV swept through the Rhineland in the late 1680s, it flattened dozens of them. Eltz should have been on that list. It got spared because one of the family lords, Hans Anton zu Eltz, was a senior officer in that same French army, and he quietly had his own home crossed off the list of castles to tear down.

The one real attack came earlier. From 1331 to 1336 the Archbishop of Trier laid siege to it. He even built a smaller castle on the hill above just to fire down on it with some of the first cannons in the region. The family ran out of supplies and gave in. They had to pull down the outer walls, but the castle itself was never taken.

There is a reason it looks like a dozen stone houses crammed onto one rock. In 1268 three brothers split it between them, and each branch built its own wing and lived there at the same time. To keep relatives from killing each other inside their own walls, they signed a written treaty, a castle peace deed, that spelled out the punishment for any crime done inside. Murder someone in the castle and you lost every right to it, for good.

For decades the castle sat on the German 500 mark note, until the euro replaced it. Today about 70 of its rooms are open as a museum, full of 850 years of one family's armor, art, and furniture that never once had to be rebuilt from the ashes.

[#AusOpen @AustralianOpen]

One thing about @serenawilliams, she will fight to win 🔥👑

[kettah @kettah]

Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika!

[Thabo Innocent Mathebula @mathebulati]

The national anthem we know and recognize

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

💬 "This is our year!" 🔮

Congratulations to you and the New York Knicks, Spike Lee ❤️

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The entire Knicks roster sang along with Alicia Keys for Empire State of Mind

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Overlooking nature's masterpiece, the Maasai way with eyes on the Crater and hearts rooted in tradition in Tanzania 🇹🇿, Africa.

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

'If a goon hits you on the head and you die, are we going to treat you as a protest victim?'

It appears that the government/police have introduced goons to evade accountability ~ Advocate James WaNjeri.

#TheLastWordNTV @jamessmat