Continued…Clinton has supported death and destruction around the world in service of the US agenda. She is known for famously bragging in October 2011 to a reporter about the brutal murder of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi after the 2011 US/NATO invasion.

Yet, years later, she is still being given a platform to deceive the public. Will Clinton ever face accountability? Let us know in the comments.

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US COP PUNCHING BLACK GOES VIRAL

*DISTURBING PICTURES*

This just-released footage has gone viral after a New York cop was indicted for assaulting an African in America. It appears to show sergeant Christian Zapata punching the victim in the face 13 times in less than nine seconds. Police were responding to a call about an immunocompromised autistic child at a Manhattan apartment last December. When they arrived, the mother’s boyfriend answered the door and asked them to wear face masks. They refused and, as you’ll see from this bodycam video, things turned violent. The Manhattan District Attorney said the footage shows how the the incident escalated. Zapata pleaded not guilty to a third-degree assault charge and has been suspended without pay. Statistics show Blacks bear the brunt of police brutality in the US and are three times more likely than Whites to be killed by officers. A warning, you may find this footage disturbing.

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REMEMBERING EGYPT’S OCTOBER WAR

The 1973 October Victory War, as it is known in Egypt—or the Yom Kippur War as it is known in Israel—saw Egypt regain control of the eastern-most tip of Africa and experience pride after years of bitter defeats. However, the ensuing peace created a sense of historiographic controversy as to how this moment should be remembered in Africa and across the Arab world.

Let us know in the comments what you think about this history.

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FRANCE TARGETS AFRICAN STUDENTS

Talk about impotent rage. With France being shown the door in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, and its attempts at a comeback getting frustrated at every turn, it has now resorted to targeting civilians.

France has denied hundreds of students and artists visas with ‘deteriorating security’ being cited as the reason. Many are unconvinced, and point out that Franco-Russian hostilities have not elicited the same response for example.

Continued…Below the surface, it points to the uselessness of France as a partner, and the legacy of neocolonialism, as decades of French-West Africa relations have yielded no development. Despite getting independence in the 60s, many students have to go to France due to an absence of top tier facilities at home.

But with the opportunity to develop now that France’s boot is off their necks, the hope is that Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso can now give their people everything they need so they won’t be at the whims of Paris.

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WHAT'S JULY 4 TO THE SLAVE?

Few people could do justice to a Frederick Douglass speech quite like Hollywood actor James Earl Jones, fellow talented orator. In this video, he reads the historic address, ‘What to the slave is your 4th of July,’ during a 5th July 2004 performance of Voices of a People's History of the United States. Douglass had initially used it to address the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in 1852 in New York.

In the speech, Douglass chastises the United States' biggest holiday, the Fourth of July, a day marking US independence from Britain. Despite the Declaration of Independence being predicated upon ‘equality of men,' Africans remained slaves until 1865. What freedom then, Douglass asks, is there to celebrate?

Continued…Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 on a plantation owned by then Maryland governor and US senator Edward Lloyd V. He escaped at age 20, and dedicated his life to fighting for abolition of slavery. He was a dedicated reader and powerful orator. He wrote hundreds of essays, a novela, three autobiographies and thousands of speeches.

When the civil war broke, Douglass lobbied President Lincoln to free and arm all enslaved Africans. ‘End slavery right now. Free them and arm them. They know the South far better than anyone else.’ It is argued that had Lincoln’s administration heeded the advice earlier, the war would have been concluded sooner.

Douglass' words, like many other ancestors', ring as true today as it did then. The United States is still divided along racial lines. Africans in the United States are disenfranchised economically, with the average African household being 10 times less wealthy than their white counterparts. The gap is only widening. Africans are also overrepresented in the US prison system, with the legacy of the CIA-run crack epidemic playing a part. Yet, Donald Trump successfully ran in 2016 for US president on the 'Make America Great Again' platform. What then, as Douglass asked, is the 4th of July to a slave.

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK!

There’s a strong sense of denial that dark-skinned Africans contributed to ancient Egypt's great civilisation and accomplishments. But, in history books and in films, the original story of ancient Egyptians has remained in dispute. Mainstream scholars reject that Egypt was either a white civilization or a Black civilization, maintaining that applying notions of race is anachronistic. Meanwhile, Netflix's recent docudrama, "Queen Cleopatra," depicted the ancient Egyptian ruler as Black, causing an uproar as some Egyptians complained the feature appropriates their culture and rewrites their history. Well, this myth originates from colonial Egyptologists who argued that ancient Egypt was "Aryan" and therefore dominated nearby nations that were seen as "Negro." According to Dr Muhammad Arabi, it's very important to push back and to acknowledge all of Egypt's history. Let us know what you think in the comments.

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MALEMA: 'NO TO FOREIGN MILITARY BASES IN AFRICA'

The African continent has in the last two decades seen a proliferation of foreign military bases, a phenomenon that some stakeholders say puts the security and sovereignty of the continent at risk. Here is Julius Malema, president of South Africa's pan-Africanist political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, sharing this view at an EFF Diplomatic Breakfast in August. Hear what he had to say about why Africa needs to kick out all foreign forces.

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CAN YOU PRONOUNCE OUAGADOUGOU?

It’s time to test your knowledge of the African continent!
We headed to the streets of Kenya armed with our shillings and questions, and as usual bumped into some bright sparks. See if you too can crack our latest brainteasers

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END OF THE ROAD FOR NIGERIA'S PUPPET PRESIDENT?

Following the failure of his multiple attempts to invade Niger at the behest of France and the USA, Nigerian president Bola Tinubu appears to be at the end of the road, courtesy of some legal trouble in the United States.

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