#Congo

Some facts about Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawai'i (thread) 1. She tried to found a women's bank.2. She tried to come up with a microlending program for women.3. She believed in
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THREAD: La RDC a t-elle des tenues traditionnelles ? La RDC compte environ plus de 400 groupes ethniques, il n’y a pas de tenue traditionnelle générale pour toute la population.
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56 years ago Patrice Émery Lumumba was murdered under Belgian & US orders. Canadian peacekeepers handed him to his death.https://dissidentvoice.org/2016/07/remembering-un-and-canadian-role-in-deposing-and-assassination-of-patrice-lumum
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Last week, the Biden admin deported hundreds of Jamaicans + Haitians. Today, this week & month, they are set to deport close to 2000 Africans + Carribeans. At 3pm today,
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Followup thoughts on this, including Jason Hickel's excellent thread, linked:https://twitter.com/alan2102z/status/1349025486442266624 Believing this patent absurdity ("coup attempt") is a reflection of the privilege and comfor
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While I understand the sentiment & arguments behind these types of articles, I pause & remind myself of all the immigrants I have met across the US -- from Congo,
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Africa is four times the size of Europe, but its coastline is only one and a half times longer than Europe's. You need good access to the sea, plenty of
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Most of the goods and “luxuries” we enjoy in the western world are based off the exploitation of the global south (particularly Africa)https://twitter.com/kamaufranklin/status/1353345172466266112 “In 1926, the Firestone Rubber Company
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The U.S. EIA has updated its country analysis on # Venezuela :1. Although one of the original 5 large oil-producing nations in OPEC, Venezuela fell to the 4th smallest producer
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Abolish African-American from your vernacular.It erases cultural ties Black people have to their respective ancestral homelands. Africa is a whole continent. Do you ever hear European-American? It’s just another way
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It's not the first time Germany has played Erdogan's game vs Greece in the EastMed this year. In Jan, it shunned Athens out of the "Berlin Conference" on Libya, right
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Marashi Ya Pemba.You may [not] have heard of the Congolese guitar maestro, Ndala Kasheba. He may not be as famous (this is a great assumption on my part) but he
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The Bantu Expansion & kingdoms_Is a concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Southern Nigeria
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Love the sword-bearer's design and how strongly African some of them are, with some clear specific cultural references notably from Egypt, Ethiopia and Senegal. These specific African references reinforce these
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On October 30, 1974 one of the greatest fights to be fought in Africa took place. Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought in Kinshasa, Zaire, in what has popularly become
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No matter how far we stray from our African roots, the culture runs deep. These collages highlight the striking resemblances of some familiar faces vs. African people & the diaspora
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