African Proverb Of The Week
When the European colonizer first stepped foot in Africa, he did not meet a “poor”, “starving”, “corrupt” continent. Otherwise, he and his descendants would not have gone on to plunder this continent for 500 years. He met a beautiful, bountiful land inhabited by curious, hospitable, and relatively peaceful people who organized their affairs according to their unique, indigenous context, and who welcomed him into their homes believing him, though odd-looking, to be ultimately as human as them.
But there was nothing human about him. And in the centuries that would follow, he and his descendants would inject the cultural, political and spiritual illnesses of their own societies into Africa, disrupting the continent’s indigenous development, and erasing its indigenous memory.
That historical truth is encoded in this North African proverb.
But throughout the history of cultural erasure, there were Africans who fought back, great thinkers like Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke and Marimba Ani, who peered into the past to recover what was lost and remind the people of Africa who they truly were. Their works are more accessible than ever in this digital age, and it is up to the African, who wishes to rediscover the beauty in who they are, to explore these works.
This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.
Africa’s ruling class isn’t a fully independent bourgeoisie, they’re intermediaries.
They manage extraction on behalf of foreign capital in exchange for personal accumulation
Top countries with the largest Gold mines in Ghana
1. AngloGold (BlackRock) 🇺🇸USA
2. Newmont 🇺🇸USA
3. Kinross Gold 🇨🇦Canada
4. Perseus mining 🇦🇺Australia
5. Shandong Gold 🇨🇳China
Major destinations includes UAE, Switzerland and India.
Ghana is literally a Foreign Property n the citizens are nothing but mere labourers.
IsraeIis poisoned Palestinian wells with typhoid bacteria in 1948 as part of ‘Operation Cast Thy Bread’, a biological warfare campaign to ethnically cleanse and prevent refugees from returning.
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“Indeed, I am Allah. There is no deity except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance.” Quran, Surah Taha (20:14)
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