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THIS IS AFRIKA: Take time to know your beautiful and amazing motherland #CelebrateAfrika 13
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We talked to Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin who was removed from office today for his role in Jan 6 which was a big surprise because he seemed so normal.
I'm not ignoring the other side. The same could be said of AM's moving to any county in Africa and acting like they are better than most or AMs calling continental africans booty scratchers.
A horror movie for real
A father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904.
The man’s name was Nsala. He had failed to make his daily rubber quota, so the Belgian-appointed overseers cut off his...
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After foreigners were banned from travelling to Africa - Kenya for tourism due to covid-19. Kenya Wildlife Service says no rhinos were killed by poachers in the country in 2020 - the first time in more than 20 years.
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For 2 weeks in Jan. 1971 Ugandan president Milton Obote was in Singapore attending the Commonwealth Heads of Govt meeting. Among African leaders he took the lead in criticising British PM Heath, who was selling weapons to South Africa's govt.
@Reuters clip here, 18 Jan. 1971. 1/
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Brian Glick on the FBI's targeting of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feds made up fake tapes out of snippets from illegal wiretaps to try & blackmail King into suicide.
The FBI had kunes like Samuel Pierce selected & waiting in the wings to replace King & destroy the movement.
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#RDC: "L’armée est prête à renverser Lumumba et à mettre en place un gouvernement de transition composé de techniciens. Puis-je considérer que les États-Unis nous soutiennent ?", Mobutu 👇
jeuneafrique.com/mag/1094649…
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The Horn of Africa showed no mercy to the white man and his colonial ways. Let's look at the case of Somalis and Ethiopians.
When the British came to Somali shores in 1884 they were forced to sign several treaties (continues) 1/6
