#AFRICA

Journalist, teacher and co-founder of the University of Fort Hare, John Tengo Jabavu was born on this day in 1859. This year will mark the 100th anniversary of his death.
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Addressing global poverty in 12 tweets Get big tech into developing countries as a priority.This is the 1st step to providing sustainable solutions for the masses, based on countries using
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There is a misconception surrounding freedom of speech in Rwanda. People think it is absolute like in the US but there are actually very few countries granting absolute freedom of
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Its #IPThursday again good people! This was one also requested a lot. Its the story of how the Polo you wear in South Africa is fake. Well maybe fake is
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“It must not be forgotten that the leading figures of the New Africa Sékou Touré, Kwame Nkrumah and some Mali and Congolese revolutionary democrats were…shaped and tempered politically and ideologically
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This thread will follow Feb 5 2021 thread [India #FarmersProtests Goes Vogue] exploring sudden #celebrity uptake - as gov't struggled to contain #resistance. Here we can study #GlobalCitizen & structure/mechanisms
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"Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?"David Starkey, one of the most widely known popular 'historians' in the
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Today, a #BlackLivesMatter THREAD of black women in Scotland. 1st is a statue (to a nameless woman but the UK's 1st) Victory is Certain by Ann Davidson (let's hope)
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One of the big winners in the election will be the abortion-industrial complex and, by extension, China and the Chinese Communist Party.When the Mexico City policy is reversed, it will
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I wish someone would hook you up with some good eats while I explain that this folk theory of MMT is incorrect. It is a common mistake to presume MMT
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i was watching stuff about how american slavery came into being and it showed me that Africans pre-slavery didn’t see themselves as all one. Pan Africaness is a new thing
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In order to pay tribute to the Renault name, which is gonna disappear this year as they rebrand to Alpine, why not we make a thread of Renault F1 cars
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On Samaale As a result of the misinformation being passed around about awoowe Samaale, I have decided to make a thread which will hopefully educate people Awoowe Samaale was a
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Yeah, I just did a read on SWEAT's website & even a report by the SAHRC. I don't know why people think this, but not all sex work is illegal
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Breaking: Liverpool have been denied entry to Leipzig for the CL round of 16 first leg due to Covid rules. Onus now on Leipzig to find a neutral venue. 2/
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Great story here:The seedless banana we know today was developed in Palaeolithic times by people in SE Asia.They even distributed it across the oceans right up to Africa in dug
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