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[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

🔴AES-CEDEAO
During a meeting with the heads of security services of the Economic Community of West African States in Freetown this week, according to the TRT Afrika Haussa page, the Economic Community of Western African States is considering collaborating with the Alliance of Sahel States "AES" to deploy special forces to ensure security in West Africa.
However, no official note from AES states mentions such a proposal for cooperation until proven otherwise.

ECOWAS that once vilified the AES are not seeking their help.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

🇧🇫🇮🇷Iran has  reaffirmed its commitment to sharing technological and strategic expertise with Burkina Faso, highlighting Africa's "strategic importance" in its foreign policy. During a meeting in Tehran, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh hosted Burkina Faso’s Minister of State for Defense, General Célestin Simporé, to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation. 

Key Areas of Expertise Sharing

Iran has expressed readiness to transfer knowledge and technical services in the following sectors: 

Defense & Security: Iran is offering expertise in defense technology, security training, and counter-terrorism to help Burkina Faso address its long-standing battle with regional insecurity.

Science & Industry: The partnership includes the transfer of scientific and technical expertise and the export of engineering services.

Healthcare: Plans are underway to establish a pharmaceutical production unit in Burkina Faso to boost local healthcare manufacturing.

Nuclear Technology: In late 2024, the two nations signed a memorandum to cooperate on civilian nuclear research and training.

Anti-Narcotics: Burkina Faso has specifically requested Iranian expertise to assist its police force in the fight against drug trafficking.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Denzel Washington played Steve Biko

Morgan Freeman played Nelson Mandela

Jennifer Hudson portrayed Winnie Mandela

Don Cheadle portrayed Paul Rusesabagina

Forest Whitaker played Idi Amin

Danny Glover played Kwame Nkrumah

Eriq La Salle portrayed Patrice Lumumba

And the list goes on…

For decades, African American actors were cast to portray African figures, and we did not complain the way you are now… Get over it!

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

Kwame Nkrumah warned that if Africa failed to unite, the colonial powers would continue to exploit Africa. This is precisely what happened. The same colonial powers also overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana because they saw his vision as a threat. The very things that Nkrumah warned against continue to take place today.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

✊🏾 Unsung Black Heroes: The Minds History Tried to Forget

History often spotlights a few familiar names. But behind many everyday technologies and civil rights victories are Black innovators whose contributions quietly shape our daily lives.

Here are a few pioneers whose legacies deserve louder recognition:

🔴 Garrett Morgan

Before modern traffic systems, city intersections were chaotic and deadly. Morgan invented the three-position traffic signal, introducing the crucial “caution” phase.
He also created an early gas mask, which saved lives during a 1916 tunnel explosion rescue.

👉 Every time traffic flows safely — that’s part of his legacy.

🏠 Marie Van Brittan Brown

Long before Ring cameras and smart doorbells, Brown patented the first home security system in 1966.
Her invention included cameras, monitors, and two-way communication — the blueprint for modern surveillance systems.

👉 The entire home security industry stands on her innovation.

💡 Lewis Latimer

While many credit the light bulb to Edison, Latimer developed the carbon filament that made it longer-lasting and affordable.
He also drafted patent drawings for the telephone and became one of the only Black members of Edison’s engineering team.

👉 He helped bring light into millions of homes.

🔌 Otis Boykin

Boykin improved electrical resistors used in:

Computers

Radios

Guided missiles

Pacemakers

His work helped make electronics smaller, safer, and more reliable.

👉 If you use modern electronics, you benefit from his genius.

Why This Matters

The erasure of Black excellence wasn’t accidental — it was systemic. Yet despite exclusion from universities, patents, funding, and recognition, these innovators persisted.

Africa and the diaspora have always produced brilliance. The issue was never capability — it was access and acknowledgment.

History must be corrected. Not to divide — but to complete the story.

[All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) @AAPRP]

Nkrumah stated in his critique of Neo-Colonialism, that the umbilical cord between the indigenous African comprador class and their imperial masters needed to be cut by the militant and organized masses. The fact that the US is now advancing this openly may indicate they are aware that the people are further along in the process of overrunning the internal traitors

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

Marco Rubio stated, " for us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe." This remark reinforces the fact that at its core, the United States is an extension of European colonialism and imperialism.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

🌍✊🏾 20 great Africans We Should Honor for Their Activism (Not Politics)
Africa has produced some of the most fearless activists in world history people who stood for justice, dignity, freedom, women’s rights, peace, and African unity, often at the cost of their lives.
Here are 20 African icons we should honor for their activism and sacrifice:

1️⃣ Steve Biko (South Africa) – Black Consciousness Movement
2️⃣ Wangari Maathai (Kenya) – Environmental justice & women’s empowerment
3️⃣ Patrice Lumumba (DRC) – African sovereignty & anti-imperialism
4️⃣ Amílcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde) – Revolutionary thinker
5️⃣ Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria) – Ogoni rights vs oil exploitation
6️⃣ Miriam Makeba (South Africa) – Cultural activism against apartheid
7️⃣ Albertina Sisulu (South Africa) – Anti-apartheid organizer
8️⃣ Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Nigeria) – Women’s rights & anti-colonial struggle
9️⃣ Fela Kuti (Nigeria) – Music as political resistance
🔟 Fatima Meer (South Africa) – Human rights activist
1️⃣1️⃣ Desmond Tutu (South Africa) – Moral voice against apartheid
1️⃣2️⃣ Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) – Women-led peace movement
1️⃣3️⃣ Andrée Blouin (Central Africa/Congo) – Pan-African liberation activist
1️⃣4️⃣ Frantz Fanon (Algeria struggle) – Revolutionary writer & decolonial voice
1️⃣5️⃣ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (South Africa) – Fearless resistance figure
1️⃣6️⃣ Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) – Anti-imperialist & self-reliance icon
1️⃣7️⃣ Samora Machel (Mozambique) – Liberation struggle symbol
1️⃣8️⃣ Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu (South Africa) – Youth resistance symbol
1️⃣9️⃣ Bessie Head (Botswana) – Social justice through literature
2️⃣0️⃣ Graça Machel (Mozambique) – Children’s rights & African development
🖤 Africa is not short of heroes.
We are only short of people who teach the truth about them.

Which names would you add to this list? 👇🏾

[🟥SANGO'S✊🏿WRATH🟩 @DetroitBabalawo]

@DOmowale There are Pan African schools all over America in just about every major city where Black Americans are, and several in Africa. They just don't make it their business to run their mouths about it on social media. They're too busy putting in real work.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

Ghana will formally file a resolution at the United Nations on March 25, 2026, to have the transatlantic slave trade declared as one of the greatest crimes against humanity. President John Mahama has led the African Union's call for reparations, demanding that former colonial powers provide compensation for the injustices of slavery and colonialism. Speaking on behalf of the President during an engagement with Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Ghana's Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the goal of this push is to ensure reparations, restitution and justice for Africans who suffered from the slavery.

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

There's no Malcolm X without Marcus Garvey. He came from a Garveyite family and after Malcolm was forced out of the NOI, he formed the OAAU to continue where Garvey left off. These people don't actually care about Malcolm or anything he stood for. They are using his name to promote division.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

Ghana is set to file a resolution at the United Nations on March 25, 2026, to have the transatlantic slave trade declared as one of the greatest crimes against humanity. President John Mahama has led the African Union's call for reparations, demanding that former colonial powers provide compensation for the injustices of slavery and colonialism. Speaking on behalf of the President during an engagement with Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Ghana's Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the goal of this push is to ensure reparations, restitution and justice for Africans who suffered from the slavery.

[HU Center for African Studies @HUCenterAfrica]

Join us at Johns Hopkins SAIS for the 3rd Annual Africa–Americas Forum on China.
A full-day conference on debt, critical minerals, clean technology, security cooperation, and global AI governance.
Feb 9 | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM EST

[HU Center for African Studies @HUCenterAfrica]

Study Swahili in Kenya | Summer 2026
Apply to Howard University’s Swahili Study Abroad Program (HUSSA), an intensive, community-based Swahili language and culture program in Kenya.

Deadline: January 31
Learn more: https://t.co/86BjCRy7ei

#HowardUniversity #StudyAbroad #Swahili

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

If ever you are seeking for someone to articulate mordern day Western imperialism for you, then go no further. Donald J Trump is your man.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

Let the truth be told, and evil exposed.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

Burkina Faso 🇧🇫:

The Burkinabe Government under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim TRAORÉ has adopted a draft decree aimed at elevating the Volunteer Brigade for the Defense of the Homeland (BVDP) to the full army in order to strengthen its response to the challenges present security guards.

[SchomburgCenter @SchomburgCenter]

Tues, 1/13 | 5:30 PM: Join us for Mapping the Transnational Hip-Hop Revolution, which celebrates the enduring influence of hip-hop across the world w/screenings of films that document hip-hop movements in Cuba & Tanzania. #SchomburgCenter #Schomburg100
https://t.co/ZUJHJT9nZm

[Global Leaders Guild @LeadersGuild]

@Big_tagg A tragedy in itself.. Black People in general have the style and can make anything blow up… Why still Polo? Wild

[Global Leaders Guild @LeadersGuild]

@Dresco126653823 @cecild84 This is bad rhetoric.. a lot of us are in Africa alongside national citizens building amazing programs and projects!