#African

I'm so tired of greek and norse mythology......Can...can people really find no other influences for their work? Like...I appreciate how y'all can still somehow make something so used up interesting
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everyone's gonna be losing their shit about Dune, which simultaneously borrows from and erases both my culture and religion and i'm already fuming at the thought so time to mute
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I would like to take time on this day to remind everyone that girls and women play baseball, too. I've written a bit about this so please indulge me for
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#BlackHistoryMonth In 1825, Black residents of New York City began buying over 100 plots of land north of the city. They took advantage of low property prices from subdivided farmland
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Some thoughts on the Harpers letter. I support it in spirit: the world would be a better place if people could be more tolerant and open minded. But I think
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A thread on the fascinating life of Queen Nzinga of the Mbundu people of Angola, one of the most badass women in history, also one of Africa's greatest rulers &
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If anything good has come out of recent events it is this: We are finally having a frank discussion around stop & search, and to be honest, it’s well overdue.If
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Happy Black History Month! I’d like to announce a Twitter project, “Erasing Colorasure in Music Theory.” In the history of American music theory, and American classical music, whiteness has consistently
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In the mid-2000's Nigeria wasn't that good at basketball at the national level. Angola & Senegal were the teams that dominated. Now we have the top team on the continent.
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my fave south african tv shows of all time. stokvel. a classic south african comedy. everything about this show worked. the acting, the writing. manaka ranaka as lerata was amazing
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Social Democrats feel revolutionary to parts of the working class, particularly settler workers because our imagination has been so thoroughly limited as to what seizing control of real material conditions
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The new panic narrative is that the vaccine distribution is all screwed up. They are not flushing it down the drain. We are vaccinating people as fast as we can.
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NIGERIAN PLAYERS IN THE BACK STREETS OF EUROPE (2)How come our players are now good enough to play only in India, Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Belarus, China etc?Let's continue with the thread
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The Next 20 YearsJust look around you in Nigeria, for example. 20 years ago, the ATM machine was a novelty. No bank issued debit cards- maybe just the foreign ones.
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This is actually a really great point. @nightxade wrote about it for @wwacomics back in 2019, in fact.https://twitter.com/RobertSecundus/status/1359969788685148165 Here's that piece, written at the time in regards to the trouble
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Chinese propaganda poster from 1970."All reactionaries are paper tigers / People of the world unite to defeat the American invaders and their running dogs!" "People of the world unite to
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