#AFRICA

The New York Times

nytimes

The coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. right now rivals any in the world.It has been surging since mid-June, and the country’s rate of infection now puts it squarely in the

AfrikanNet

afrikanNet

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

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

Aksum was the original capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, a naval and trading power that ruled the region from about 400 BCE to the 10th century.The stelae were large

ÄJÌßÖLÄ🎗

Starbioola

Story of Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman who was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: This is one of the most amazing things I have seen...Neolithic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangshao_culture burial, discovered in Puyang, Henan Province, Northwestern China and dated to 4000BC... A person was buried between

DD

Disembe

The Waluke case has gone before NINE judges from 2004 till yesterday, and will end in the Court of Appeal, again. 1/ It is very interesting to look at the

TeamQueens

TeamQueensHist

Welcome to #teamqueens' new history blog and channel @TeamQueensHist! Our new project aims to bring global queenship to a wider audience through #QueenoftheDay #QOTD posts, blog posts on the latest

asisiphoD. 🏳️‍🌈

asisipho_d

How my nephew got a full set of drums (Thread) I paid him a visit and when I got this was the set up... With the help of the guys

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

"The first barrier that Haitians have in Chile is not the language, it is the skin color. From the color of skin, the tongue also becomes a barrier, but it

Annie 😷🇺🇸🇿🇦

the_anni3

Today I learned about something which I did not know about and we were never taught in our history lessons. The sysem of "Inboekselings". (Extract from Illustrated history of South

Melanie Dione

themelaniedione

Just a reminder that the main comedians who call people too sensitive lose their shit when you suggest their special wasn’t funny.https://twitter.com/michellehux/status/1332390258973966337 “It’s just an opinion! You gonna let words

Joshua Gans

joshgans

Time for a threat on the J&J vaccine whose efficacy results were released today. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/health/covid-vaccine-johnson-and-johnson-variants.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage [1/n] First

Emma Hilton

FondOfBeetles

ActionAid claiming there is no such thing as a biological female. @ActionAidUK https://twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1283391395303231489 In Burundi, does child marriage happen to self-identified girls? In Somalia, is FGM inflicted on sel

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

As horrific as #COVID19 looks right now, it is almost certainly about to get worse—“I’m very very concerned that we’ve now gone from a virus that we could control to

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/BREAKING on #SARS_CoV_2 variants: the emerging variants in South Africa and Brazil that harbor the E484K mutation have "greatly reduced susceptibility" to neutralization by polyclonal serum antibodies derived from some

Dr Caitlin Green

caitlinrgreen

A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York — new post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2019/12/african-viking-york.html This post discusses burial SK 3379 from the graveyard of the former St

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