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[Red Bus Londinium @Londinium_Life]

Last Goal Wins at the Broadway Theatre Catford is a compelling exploration of identity and competition in football and a brilliant way to launch the Ryan Calais Cameron season

https://t.co/KACaM6XwSk

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"We can't let Hollywood tell our stories. We've got to tell our own stories."

[Vosa @mistervosa]

Game Over... Our jollof brothers won #SENMAR

[Mikha'el @Ak2Michael]

@mistervosa Naija defended Congolese honor!, Senegal defended Naija honor. Ghana judgement is coming for you.

[Brother Legend @BigBroLGND]

This video comment section on TikTok is INSANE

[Vertigo_Warrior @VertigoWarrior]

14. Behind the scenes on BLACK PANTHER, Chadwick Boseman has a laugh with a goat.

[Vertigo_Warrior @VertigoWarrior]

24. This is the cutest video you'll ever see from behind the scenes of the filming of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

[Baba @BabaDClint]

Forgive his fake Nigerian accent 😩 he’s spot on with the response.😂

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

37 years ago today, Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary African leader, was assassinated by French imperialists.

Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.

He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists

As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth.

Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87):

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

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[𝓔𝓵��𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓸 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓪𝔂𝓸 ♥︎ @eludayo_1]

This will make your day 💯😂😂. See voice 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

People need to know that the so called “Italian” leather used to make the most expensive bags and shoes in the world with insane markups in price due the perception of its European origin, is in fact Nigerian leather.

Your comments on this

[Latesha Byrd @Latesha_Byrd]

This thread is for Black women, and Black women only. If that’s not you please scroll. Let me tell you about the Pet to Threat Phenomena.

Have you ever started a job where everyone seemed to genuinely like you at first? Then, suddenly, things shift? (READ THIS THREAD)

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

In 1939, Zulu singer Solomon Linda recorded “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. The song made $16 million. Guess who stole the song from him?

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

As usual @HJoyceGender gets right to the heart of it

[johnnygroover @johnnygroover1]

@myhiddenvalue

[Rebecca 🤎 @rebecca_sussex]

Best Trip✨🇳🇬🎶: What a welcome home to the Nigerian for Meghan, Ada Mazi, Omu of Arochukwu. Meghan was visibly moved by this honour from the 4 Kings in attendance. She felt blessed to be among family in the “motherland”. Harry & Meghan can’t wait to return to Nigeria! Enjoy 🤍

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

When Conservative MP’s say we can trust the government with our Human Rights just point out that in the last 18 months they’ve robbed millions of workers of the right to strike, locked millions of people out of the electoral process & stripped back our right to protest about it

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“A child pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox because they did not qualify for free school meals & did not want their friends to know there was no food at home”

900,000 children who live in poverty miss out due to strict eligibility rules
https://t.co/f91gHlTs6Y

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Lemons and Lemonade

I spent eight years in Libya
Half of the eight years I spent in detention camps without seeing the sun
The other half I spent doing odd jobs and experiencing trauma of all kinds all in the name of survival
I saw drugs being sold on the streets like candy
I saw people die from every form of violence imaginable
I believe it was only a matter of time before my number was up
Death was nothing to us over there
Three times I almost drowned trying to cross the channel into Spain or Italy
In the midst of this, I lost my faith in God
I was the one who decided to leave Nigeria to take my chances in Europe
It was to God that I prayed then but He has done nothing to make the journey smooth for me in any way
I had been raped several times that It didn't even seem like rape anymore
I just pray no one feels like just killing the girl afterwards
As long as you let me live, I will even say thank you
Then the federal government of Nigeria sent an evacuation team into Libya to get us out of there
I found my way to Lagos, even though I am from Benin
I didn't want to go home empty-handed
What would I go back home to do?
Farm with my mother?
I am the first of seven girls, my father died the year before I left home in 2014
My mother is an illiterate with so many mouths to feed
I could have stayed at home and maybe by now I would have gotten married but I wanted more for myself out of my life
I came back from Libya empty-handed
I had also lost time
I travelled as an 18-year-old just graduating from secondary school
Now I am 27 years old, I had no job and nowhere to call home
A friend I met on the plane told me about his aunty at Ikorodu
He said her aunty could give me accommodation for a while until I found my feet
I got to Ikorodu and his aunty didn't mince words
She said she does not want a freeloader as she has mouths to feed
I get to pay for my bed space and utilities in the house with immediate effect
When I asked her how I would get the job to pay, she said, "You have been raped for fun in Libya, why don't you get raped for funds in Nigeria"
I didn't quite get what she meant at first but she later explained that we would go out on weekends and have a good time with some guys in certain hotels, get paid and that way keep body and soul together
I jumped right into it
It was like playing "lucky" bet
Some weekends we make a lot of money, sometimes even in foreign currency and on some weekends we go home empty-handed
I did this for a year before I started having mental breakdowns and found myself being treated for depression and PTSD
One of the doctors told me if I continued to live with the Aunty I was with, I would get sick again
I needed help
I have been reading some stories on https://t.co/1vEpFHFMe9 and I reached out to him for some help
He listened to my story and promptly made calls to friends to help me
I got divine help
He got me a job and at the same time sent me to a photography school to learn the skill I have always loved
It was while I was there that I met Andre, A french photojournalist
I will be getting married to him in two days time
I am writing this to show my appreciation for all the help I got
I made a mistake that sent me to hell and back as a teenager but I have rediscovered the love of God in the last two years
I now lead a fellowship of young believers who have been through as much and sometimes much more than I went through
Brother Gbenga told me the day I met him that God did not say all good experiences work together for our good, he said the Bible says "All things work together for our good and I should take the lemon life handed to me and make lemonades out of it"
I have taken that counsel to heart ever since
Here are my lemons
Here are the lemonades "of Thanksgiving"
I pour them out to the Lord at the cave of Adullam, may the Lord accept it
God bless you, sir
Glory be to God alone!

PS: I found this in my DM a few minutes ago
Since I had not taken time to write today, I decided to share
One of our minstrels is debuting with her single titled "No One" on May 10
Kindly listen to it and share
The song is a ministration unto the Lord
When everything fails, when friends leave or fail to fulfil promises made when the future seems unsure and confusion sets in.
Know that there is one who is still closer than a friend with reassuring hugs and whispers urging you on to that desired end.

-GSW-