africa

The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Conceptualising Gender: Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies (pdf) https://knowledge4empowerment.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/oyewumi_gender-as-eurocentric.pdf

This is the first of a new series on rating quotations. Occasionally I will post a quote, be it insightful, controversial, or just funny and you can rate and comment on it. I will also include a short bio of the source of the quote as well. Many will be quotes by Black people, some will not. See...

Hundreds of Elephants Found Dead in Botswana 1 July 2020 BBC World Service Mystery surrounds the "completely unprecedented" deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Dr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant...

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This happened yesterday in London. Surprised who the perpetrators were. People on twitter he was a murdering scumbag. This is from yesterday in Ethiopia Always thought he was loved in Ethiopa for fighting off European colonisers

24 June 2020 Leading Scientists Conclude Elephant Poaching in Africa Has Not Decreased in Past Decade By Environmental Investigation Agency A new scientific paper warns that the world cannot lower its guard on protecting elephants. The paper, published yesterday (24 June), presents...

#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd Mauritanian police accused of racism after kneeling on neck of Black man How the fukk does this happen IN AFRICA? :snoop: Yall betta TURN UP! "an outcry against racism and police brutality in the majority-Black country dominated by an Arab-Berber elite." BY...

I remember these two posts years back about the son of Nigerian billionaires marrying a Persian chick (though his deceased first wife was AA) https://www.thecoli.com/threads/son-of-the-worlds-richest-black-woman-a-nigerian-has-lavish-wedding-black-excellence.546506/...

17 June 2020 Facebook Surrounds Africa Many industries and service companies are failing or shrinking due to the lockdown and subsequent crisis. Instead, there are those who have gained from all this. Facebook, Google (YouTube owner), Microsoft, Apple and Amazon – writes The New York Times –...

President Pierre Nkurunziza died last week and the first reports were a heart attack. However, news leaked out that he and his wife had traveled to Kenya for treatment after he fell ill after watching a volleyball match and foreign diplomats are now saying everyone in Bujumbura knows it was the...

Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, South Africa Mamadou Koulibaly, leader of LIDER (LIberty and DEmocracy for the Republic), running candidate for the 2020 presidential election in Ivory Coast

12 May 2020 Madagascar Slams WHO for Not Endorsing Its Herbal Cure President Rajoelina said WHO has shut eyes, as a drug to combat COVID-19 has been discovered by a poor African country By Felix Tih Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has slammed the World Health Organization for not...

COVID-19 and Class Collaboration MAY 6, 2020 Link: COVID-19 and Class Collaboration — The Black Alliance for Peace

Still looking A1 :ahh:

I honestly think it's one of the best video on YouTube. It's an 22 min extract (cut in two parts) from a 4 hour conference Pr Theophile Obenga gave in 2012 in Kinshasa. The main reason is because it encompasses so precisely what it is to do history, or any science for that matter, in a world...

I want to keep on the Africa theme this week. I read up on Russia, pre-WW1. They looked exactly like the continent looks right now. They had a sht ton of unused, unrefined minerals and oil. Their populations were mostly agricultural just like every country on the continent (except SA). They...