Queen Nanny of the Maroons.
Born 1686: Ghana ๐ฌ๐ญ
Died 1733/1750: Jamaica ๐ฏ๐ฒ
For over 30 years, it is said she fought and freed over 800 enslร ved people on the island of Jamaica. There are many stories about her, it is said she was a queen in Ghana from the warrior Ashanti tribe when she was captured and brought to Jamaica where she later escaped and led an armed revolt against the British Empire in the mountains and jungles of Jamaica for two decades.
It is said she used guerilla warfare to fight the British who suffered great loss and later settled with a peace treaty to spare their men. She was said to also be a powerful spiritual voodoo priestess who would use her powers to shield her fighters from the attacks of the British.
One British officer who was lucky to survive her encounter described her as being small, muscular, and strong with intense eyes. She wore a girdle with at least 10 different combat kn iv es. Queen Nanny is Jamaica's only female hero, and there are still Maroons living in Jamaica today.
Do not let anybody tell you who you are. And you have to take the time to find out who that is without men/friends/family in it. And you have to wake up every day and decide to like yourself until you believe it + keep the promises you make to you about what you want to change
People this is the worst day of my life ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Crying so bad
Ure still the Greatest to Ever do it. SEVEN time Olympic and world champion over the 100m.
THE Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce CD OD OJ. GOAT. LEGEND
do you ever just go
๐คข๐คข๐คข๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ๐คข๐คข๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ life ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คข๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คข๐คข
but then
๐๐๐๐๐ฉท๐ฉท๐๐ฉท๐ฉท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉท๐ฉทSir Lewis Hamilton win at Silverstone ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉท๐ฉท๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉท๐ฉท๐๐
Lewis winning yesterday meant a lot to me. As I started this account in 2022, he was going through the bottom of it, experimenting everything and anything to help the team make the car better. I hoped to remind, in my small way, how great he is, even if he was faced with the hardest of hardships.
As a matter of fact, I NEVER got to celebrate a win of his. Every race from then to now, weekend after weekend, I would draft that P1 graphic, knowing how unlikely a win was, but knowing that rooting for the greatest of them all, anything was possible.
It was a difficult journey. Be so close but still so far from that win... Every race weekend, I would draw that pole / win graphic, stay hopeful, just for my hopes to be crushed time and time again, for various reasons.
Yet, every time I wanted to give up, I saw Lewis in interviews, being hurt, but keeping at it, keeping pushing, and I knew I'd stand by him until that win that would come some day.
Seeing him winning at Silverstone, a record breaking 105th*, a 9th at a single track, the most of anybody, on the straight that bears his name, on his home turf, in front of his loved ones, feels so personal. He embodied the NEVER GIVE UP mantra to its fullest. I cried so many tears of joy... Finally uploading that P1 graphic and typing LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE 2024 BRITISH GRAND PRIX... My hands were shaking with emotions
Champions, as the saying goes, are eternal. But overcoming everything that's been thrown at him since 2021 and winning that 105th* in such fashion, with no favorable circumstances, just his vintage race pace and craft, Lewis is more than that. He's one of one, in a league of one. He's a hero without a cape. He's an inspiration to many. He's timeless.
Long may he reign! ๐