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[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

511 years ago today the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was shown to the public for the first time.

Is it the greatest achievement in the history of art, or is it overrated?

To help you decide, here are some things you probably didn't know about the world's most famous ceiling...

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

36 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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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.

The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.

You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.

Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others.

Be civilized.

Credit: Ira Byock.

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[Spiwe Chireka @schireka]

@Nedbank What is up with the Nicolway branch? Three days straight and it’s been ‘offline’. Please advise when this will be resolved🙏🏿

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@Wonderfula59153 Some people have no business being parents! Has she been reported to the police?

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@blavkRedd We are going to believe that a black kid turned mixed race?

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

RETWEET!

Dear Election Observers,

I am sure that you have heard complaints about Zimbabwe’s judiciary and how normal people perceive it to be captured and partisan towards the ruling party.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party CCC went to court, the Zimbabwean High Court, demanding the voters roll.

The court has ruled that the matter is not urgent, which means it can be heard after the election.

You all know that an election is the Voters Roll.
How can the matter not be urgent when the election is taking place in 9 days time?

For background;
The Zimbabwean constitution stipulates that any citizen of Zimbabwe can access the Voters Roll.

Yet here we are, the main participant in the election is being denied the Voters Roll.

How can such an election be free, fair and credible?

Please RETWEET so that the Election Observers can see this.

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@Buckfield777 @SiddiqTulip Me too 🙏🏿

[Paul Millerd @p_millerd]

I grew up with the myth that having an impressive job and a lot of money was what would attract women.

But all the amazing women I know want men with flexible schedules, who can be present with kids and want to be good fathers, and are working on things that bring them alive