#AFRICANS

1. NDEBELE IDENTITY: Who are the Ndebele of Zimbabwe? A very long thread...Many people struggle with defining the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. Are Ndebeles a tribe, a nation, Khumalos, South
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So just came out of a talk called: "African Perspectives on COVID-19 and its Impacts" given at a Harvard center - a story. I had gotten the calendar invite from
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Jim Solbakken. Two of the biggest crooks in football.Multiple dodgy transfers, an academy funded with oil money and helping a serial rapist avoid charges. A
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Read bell hooks for a “material analysis of black patriarchy”. Must read!Bell hooks barely cites any scholars and avoids entirely any attempt at all of actually supporting the claims she
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I didn't want to write this thread, but it seems the best way to expose a clown, check a fool, and inform an idiot on this forum, is by writing
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Idk if anyone else has ever had this experience but in my various travels one thing I noticed is that basically everyone in Europe, the Middle East & North Africa
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TW: rape BLACK HORROR: The PhantomThis week’s thread is about understanding the invisible and illegibility of Black women in Black literature,cinema and this worlding. Objects of Analysis:‘Silence of the Lambs’
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The database created by Catherine Hall which details all those people who got paid compensation for loss of slave property and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. We ALL
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Why the diaspora ain’t and why black Americans should look out for ourselves with receipts attached.Let’s begin shall we ?
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Thread... Musing on #Covid19I wonder about the growing numbers and worry at the excitement of GOK in announcing the new number of positive #coronavirusInkenya cases. They announce it as though
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African tiktoks that will season your food; a thread Things african parents love to say When you finally catch the keyboard warrior Let's confuse the non-Africans Goats in other
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[Thread] Rarely have I been so wracked with esprit d’escalier as after recording this show. I wish I’d talked more about those places where skin colour prejudice shows up in
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Four centuries ago in Bolobedu, a Northern Sotho region in present day Limpopo, lived King Mugodo. Mugodo was adamant in eliminating the symbolic power of patriarchy and remapping our understanding
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The open and transparent manner in which the British are handling the matter of Boris Johnson's illness reminds me of the secretive and confusing way in which Malawi handled the
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A bit late but it's been somewhat hectic. When RTs or notifications re historical studies about Black people and early modern England cross my TL, I find it difficult to
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