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[Kirindi @mindsetPEACE]

@mncube_mncu8 @BBCAfrica Hmmm! Growing up I was taught a saying : People in glass houses don’t throw stones

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

One of the greatest ironies in Kenyan history is that the Mau Mau remained an officially banned organization until 2003, four decades after independence.

The British branded them terrorists, and independent Kenya kept the ban in place.

It was only after President Mwai Kibaki came to power that the prohibition was lifted, finally giving legal recognition to the movement that had shed so much blood for Kenya's freedom.

[Kirindi @mindsetPEACE]

What impact has this statement had on Cuba then and now, decades later

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

𝙵𝚁𝙴𝙴 𝙿𝙰𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙴 🇵🇸

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

CS Murkomen once said:

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

In 1975, Muammar Gaddafi published The Green Book, a slim volume that became the ideological foundation of Libya's political system.

It was presented as an alternative to both Western capitalism and Soviet communism.

It was a "Third Universal Theory"

Gaddafi argued that representative democracy was a fraud. According to The Green Book, parliaments, political parties, and elections merely transferred power from the people to elites. He famously claimed: "Representation is fraud." In his view, citizens should govern directly.

His proposed solution was a system of Basic People's Congresses and People's Committees, where ordinary citizens would supposedly make decisions without intermediaries.

Libya officially called itself the Jamahiriya, which translates to "the state of the masses."

The book fiercely attacks political parties, describing them as instruments of dictatorship because they allow a minority to rule in the name of the majority. Gaddafi believed parties inevitably divide society and create permanent political classes.

On economics, Gaddafi rejected both wage labor and private monopolies. He argued that workers should collectively own and manage the enterprises in which they work.

The Green Book also rejected landlordism. Gaddafi insisted that "the house belongs to the one who lives in it," arguing that owning property merely to rent it out allowed one person to exploit another's need for shelter.

On agriculture, he declared: "Land belongs to no one." Individuals had the right to use land and benefit from it, but not to monopolize or speculate on it. The book envisioned a society where productive resources were held and used collectively.

Beyond politics and economics, The Green Book ventured into social theory. It discussed family, education, women, sports, and culture.

Gaddafi defended traditional family structures while also arguing that women should participate fully in public life, though often within roles he saw as "natural."

Education, according to Gaddafi, should not be imposed from above. He criticized standardized schooling and argued that forcing a curriculum on students was a form of dictatorship. He also opposed the commercialization of knowledge and culture.

The text was translated into dozens of languages and distributed widely across Libya, Africa, and the Global South.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

😂😂😂

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

William Ruto at his prime:

[Kirindi @mindsetPEACE]

@SankaraDispatch @BBCAfrica Trauma lives on until it’s healed

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

Fact.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

Where will 7 years come from ? Under what law ?

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

These men were the Senegalese Tirailleurs—African soldiers recruited from across France's West African colonies, including present-day Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

When Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940, they fought and died defending a country that was not their own.

Thousands served on the front lines, facing the same artillery, machine guns, and tanks as their white comrades.

Many were captured by the Nazis and endured years of imprisonment under brutal conditions.

But for many survivors, the greatest betrayal came not from Germany, but from the very nation they had fought to defend — France !

After the war, African veterans returned expecting the pay, pensions, and respect promised to them for their service.

Instead, they encountered discrimination, delayed wages, and unequal treatment.

On 1 December 1944, a group of demobilized Tirailleurs at the Thiaroye military camp near Dakar protested over unpaid salaries and benefits.

French colonial forces opened fire on them, killing 500+ veterans. Historians are convinced that the true death toll was likely much higher than this.

They fought for France against fascism, survived Nazi captivity, and came home only to be met with bullets from the French colonial state.

It did not end there. In 1945, 34 of the Senegalese veterans, who were thought to be the instigators of the protest, were tried and given sentences of upto ten years.

They were later pardoned as French President Vincent Auriol visited Senegal in March 1947, but they were not exonerated, and their widows were never awarded the veteran pensions usually granted to widows of fallen soldiers.

The Thiaroye massacre is not taught in schools in France, and a Senegalese film about the massacre released in 1988, Camp de Thiaroye, was both banned in France and censored in Senegal.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

A very powerful speech. Africa before the Berlin conference.. the Berlin conference created South Africa and the rest of the states. Africa was self-sufficient long before their arrival of the Europeans.. There were no starvation.. many advanced kingdoms..

[Alfred Keter🇰🇪 @alfredarapketer]

We are sorry the great people of North Eastern, we were not familiar with your game!
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Wantam Is Wantam!

[MC deep state @VINCENTODO45654]

@AokoOtieno_

[News Central TV @NewsCentralTV]

"Ghanaians are gone now, 300 of them. How many 300 jobs were created after the Ghanaians left."

Julius Malema says blaming migrants for job losses deepens colonial divisions and that Ghana’s response risks blaming entire societies for the actions of a few people.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

In Ghana, the government has directed international mining companies to transfer their mining activities to local contractors.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

The Ruto government is just too much. These guys wake up every single day just to conjure up more ways to cause pain to Kenyans. I know we are expected to keep government in check as opposition but it’s literally impossible to keep up with the breadth and depth of the capacity for evil these guys have. It doesn’t have to be like this bwana. When we tell you just kicking Ruto out solves 80% of our problems you best believe! Just like he did with Haiti and now Ebola, for the right amount, this one can sell us to the devil himself!

[Cornbread Mafioso 🖕🏾 @Soulful1865]

Foundational 'Black Americans (U.S.) - 100,000, Inventions/patents and innovations.

They hate us and love us at the same time. Gods Children.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The erasure of the Kingdom of Kush, the Malian Empire, the Kingdom of Dahomey, Great Zimbabwe, and dozens of other sophisticated African civilizations from global historical education was not an accidental omission — it was a deliberate intellectual project pursued by European colonial academics who understood that the premise of African inferiority required the elimination of evidence that Africans had built literate, mathematically sophisticated, architecturally advanced, and diplomatically complex civilizations centuries before European contact.

The Mali Empire at its peak under Mansa Musa in the early 14th century controlled territory larger than Western Europe, administered a complex trans-Saharan trade network in gold, salt, and manuscripts, and maintained the University of Sankore in Timbuktu, which enrolled an estimated 25,000 students and housed a library containing between 400,000 and 700,000 manuscripts covering mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, and theology. When Mansa Musa performed his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, his caravan included 60,000 people and 100 camels each carrying 136 kilograms of gold. He distributed so much gold during his passage through Egypt that he caused a decade long inflation of gold's value across North Africa and the Middle East, a macroeconomic event documented by Arab historians and economists of the period.

Great Zimbabwe, the stone city complex in present day Zimbabwe whose construction required sophisticated engineering knowledge and administrative organization to quarry, transport, and assemble without mortar, was attributed by early European colonial archaeologists to Phoenicians, Arabs, and ancient Israelites in sequence, each attribution motivated by the determination to find any explanation other than the one supported by the archaeological evidence: that it was built by the ancestors of the Shona people who inhabited the region when Europeans arrived. The archaeologist J. Theodore Bent, who conducted the first formal excavation in 1891, was explicitly commissioned by Cecil Rhodes with instructions to find evidence of a non-African origin.

The systematic suppression of African historical scholarship extended into the colonial educational apparatus, which ensured that generations of both African and European students received no substantive instruction in pre-colonial African civilization, creating an intellectual vacancy that colonial racial ideology filled with the fiction of a continent without history.

#archaeohistories