#African

Sir Dickson

Wizarab10

On the ridiculous praise of the UK Parliament for exposing Gowon an their complicityI really don't have power or time to make a long thread and I intend to make

Annette J-G

AnnetteJosephG

A marvelous community of historians waded into the mess @HFranceWebsite to challenge the misrepresentation of Haiti, deflections abt slavery in Africa... As a literary scholar I want to pause on

Motolani 'priMO' Alake

OneMotolani

The demonization of the 'Best World Music Album' category at the Grammy Awards is actually something unfathomable. It's almost as if everyone is sleeping the same way and hanging their

Vaibhav

V_Trips7781

Makhaya Ntini (Mdingi Express)•The man who changed the history of cricket in South Africa.•He is the first black African to represent the national team. •Regarded as one of the most popular sportsman among the fans

Abeer

AbeerSyedah

You wanna talk about looting in Saint Paul today? Talk about why they built 94 and the Midway Target where they did. I say this for people outside the cities,

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Ethiopian Empire____Spreading across modern day Eritrea and Ethiopia around 1137 CE – 1975 CE, and Stretching from the Middle Ages all the way to the Cold War, the Ethiopian

isaac Samuel

rhaplord

That's the al-fattash chronicleboth tarikhs (along with major West African chronicles like Ibn furtu's) have been fully translated -by R.Palmer in the 1900s and recently by Hunwick in "timbuktu and

DIRCO South Africa

DIRCO_ZA

As Chair of the @_AfricanUnion, South Africa is deeply concerned about reports of alleged ill-treatment of African nationals in China, including the forceful testing, quarantining for #COVID19, and other inhuman

Matthew Isbell🦠🌡

mcimaps

A THREAD on John Lewis' 1986 election to Congress. Lewis was elected to the #GA05 after winning a contested and bitter Democratic contest in a seat that broke down 60%

Clarkisha Kent

IWriteAllDay_

Counterpoint: Disabled YTs need to understand that being disabled does not override Whiteness, their racism, & everything that entails. Bucky stepping in to defend the YT man who ASSASSINATED (let’s

David Webster

dwebsterbu

The historic Bandung Asian-African conference opened 65 years ago, April 18, 1955. It was one of the 20th C’s most important events.This e-dossier tells the story of the #Bandung conference

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Kris_Sacrebleu

As a white woman, I often struggle w how to say this in a sensitive and thoughtful way, but I watched the African American community beam w pride when Barack

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riteoffittage

"The cake acts as a metaphor for Sweden's obsession with African female genital mutilation."[The Screaming Cake, 2012] https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/18/what-was-really-going-on-in-that-racist-swedish-cake-photo/ I apologis

Keith Davidson

AnotherFineTwit

THREAD: Historian Simon Webb provides the history of the song ‘Rule Brittannia’.Referring to @BBC’s consideration of Rule Britannia as a Nationalistic song celebrating slavery, Simon said “It’s hard to explain

G.M Cantaveᴮᴱ⁷

gmcantave1

Im gonna say this once and for all I still have to publish the cultural appropriation article I've been planning for months now but im gonna drop a piece of

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gucciseven

Are people aware that #BlackIsKing is not in fact a documentary on every single minute aspect of African life: past, present and future? Do people not realize that Beyoncé