Continued Part 2 - Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating!
5. Al Hasahisa, Sudan - A farmer waits for customers at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim feast, about 120 kilometres south of Sudan's capital.
6. Yaoundé, Cameroon - Aboubakar Mohaman, poses with his sword in the Briqueterie neighbourhood on the first day of Eid
7. Abidjan, Ivory Coast - People shop at the Cocovico market in preparation for Eid-Al-Adha
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5. Al Hasahisa, Sudan - A farmer waits for customers at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim feast, about 120 kilometres south of Sudan's capital.
6. Yaoundé, Cameroon - Aboubakar Mohaman, poses with his sword in the Briqueterie neighbourhood on the first day of Eid
7. Abidjan, Ivory Coast - People shop at the Cocovico market in preparation for Eid-Al-Adha
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Continued Part 3 - Mubarak to all those celebrating!
8. Mecca, Saudi Arabia - An African pilgrim poses for a photo with his son outside the Haram al Sharif, Islam’s holiest site.
9. Accra, Ghana - Muslims gather at Ghana National Mosque to perform the Eid-al-Adha prayer.
10. Giza, Egypt - Sales children make preparations at a livestock market at Burkash Bazaar.
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8. Mecca, Saudi Arabia - An African pilgrim poses for a photo with his son outside the Haram al Sharif, Islam’s holiest site.
9. Accra, Ghana - Muslims gather at Ghana National Mosque to perform the Eid-al-Adha prayer.
10. Giza, Egypt - Sales children make preparations at a livestock market at Burkash Bazaar.
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SOCIALISM IS NOT A 'WHITE' CONCEPT
Pan-africanist Kwame Ture would’ve been 82 today, so on his birthday we’re remembering a few of his words of wisdom.
Here, he dispels the myth socialism is a ‘White’ concept, and shows how Africans were discouraged from exploring it.
Ture has a long illustrious record in the struggle for African liberation worldwide.
He was a key figure in the Black Panthers, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was also an advisor to Guinean president Sekou Toure.
He died aged just 57, but speeches like this one inspired future generations.
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Pan-africanist Kwame Ture would’ve been 82 today, so on his birthday we’re remembering a few of his words of wisdom.
Here, he dispels the myth socialism is a ‘White’ concept, and shows how Africans were discouraged from exploring it.
Ture has a long illustrious record in the struggle for African liberation worldwide.
He was a key figure in the Black Panthers, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was also an advisor to Guinean president Sekou Toure.
He died aged just 57, but speeches like this one inspired future generations.
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NO PAN-AFRICANISM WITHOUT SOCIALISM
Revolutionary activist Kwame Ture was born on this day in 1941. Let’s remember him by watching him in action: in this clip, he makes the case that Pan-Africanist ideals can only be realised under socialism, because capitalism is the system of the colonialists. To be good Pan-Africanists, he says, we must also be anti-capitalists.
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Revolutionary activist Kwame Ture was born on this day in 1941. Let’s remember him by watching him in action: in this clip, he makes the case that Pan-Africanist ideals can only be realised under socialism, because capitalism is the system of the colonialists. To be good Pan-Africanists, he says, we must also be anti-capitalists.
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Continued - NO PAN-AFRICANISM WITHOUT SOCIALISM
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago and known as Stokely Carmichael, he was politically active in US politics as part of the civil rights movement, and was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966. He vacated the post a year later and, with his wife - the South African songstress Miriam Makeba - moved to Guinea, where he changed his name to Kwame Ture. This was a tip of the hat to his two patrons, Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Touré.
A leading figure of the Pan-African movement, Ture was instrumental in establishing the All African People's Revolutionary Party. Today, the AAPRP extends across the continent, from Guinea-Bissau to Kenya. The ideas he planted continue informing the struggle for liberation today.
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Originally from Trinidad and Tobago and known as Stokely Carmichael, he was politically active in US politics as part of the civil rights movement, and was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966. He vacated the post a year later and, with his wife - the South African songstress Miriam Makeba - moved to Guinea, where he changed his name to Kwame Ture. This was a tip of the hat to his two patrons, Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Touré.
A leading figure of the Pan-African movement, Ture was instrumental in establishing the All African People's Revolutionary Party. Today, the AAPRP extends across the continent, from Guinea-Bissau to Kenya. The ideas he planted continue informing the struggle for liberation today.
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The UN Needs Africa
The UN Security council, in political terms, is more archaic than the pyramids of Giza! Currently, five superpowers make all the decisions, and it's about time that changed.
In ninety seconds Ahmed Ghoneim makes the case for giving African nations a seat at the big table.
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The UN Security council, in political terms, is more archaic than the pyramids of Giza! Currently, five superpowers make all the decisions, and it's about time that changed.
In ninety seconds Ahmed Ghoneim makes the case for giving African nations a seat at the big table.
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RISK YOUR LIFE OR STARVE
A gas explosion at a decommissioned mine shaft in South Africa killed at least 31 people who were scavenging for gold in the mine. The incident is the latest in string of many accidents that have claimed hundreds of lives of people who enter closed and dangerous shafts to mine leftover over minerals, mostly gold. Driven by poverty and desperation, the illegal miners knowns as Zama Zamas risk it all to provide for their families. It’s a brutal business! And unscrupulous international companies take the lion's share from sales, leaving the Zama Zama in a vicious cycle at the bottom of the food chain.
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A gas explosion at a decommissioned mine shaft in South Africa killed at least 31 people who were scavenging for gold in the mine. The incident is the latest in string of many accidents that have claimed hundreds of lives of people who enter closed and dangerous shafts to mine leftover over minerals, mostly gold. Driven by poverty and desperation, the illegal miners knowns as Zama Zamas risk it all to provide for their families. It’s a brutal business! And unscrupulous international companies take the lion's share from sales, leaving the Zama Zama in a vicious cycle at the bottom of the food chain.
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GOOD NEWS FRIDAY: EPISODE FOUR
Let's recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of Africans in different areas such as art, culture, science, and business. Their trailblazing efforts are inspiring and will contribute to a better future. We should appreciate and acknowledge their excellence together.
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Let's recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of Africans in different areas such as art, culture, science, and business. Their trailblazing efforts are inspiring and will contribute to a better future. We should appreciate and acknowledge their excellence together.
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YOUR AFRICA
NEWS WRAP:
JUNE
2023 is halfway through and Africa is as busy as ever. As we do around this time of every month, here's the biggest news making headlines across the continent.
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NEWS WRAP:
JUNE
2023 is halfway through and Africa is as busy as ever. As we do around this time of every month, here's the biggest news making headlines across the continent.
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Rwanda's Independence Day
Rwanda is celebrating its Independence Day, which commemorates the end of Belgium rule on July 1st, 1962.
The country's history has been turbulent and bloody.
Initially, the it was ruled by a Tutsi Mwami or king, who conquered and assimilated the majority of the territory.
The Tutsi were a wealthy minority who had power and status compared to their Hutu counterparts. The Hutu served as servants and farmers.
But when Germany and later Belgium colonialists took over, they favoured the Tutsi, using them to impose and enforce harsher policies on the Hutu majority. This divisive steps sowed the seed of hate and mistrust, which later germinated and blossomed into a towering monument of shame and bloodbath, that would define the country's post-independent history.
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Rwanda is celebrating its Independence Day, which commemorates the end of Belgium rule on July 1st, 1962.
The country's history has been turbulent and bloody.
Initially, the it was ruled by a Tutsi Mwami or king, who conquered and assimilated the majority of the territory.
The Tutsi were a wealthy minority who had power and status compared to their Hutu counterparts. The Hutu served as servants and farmers.
But when Germany and later Belgium colonialists took over, they favoured the Tutsi, using them to impose and enforce harsher policies on the Hutu majority. This divisive steps sowed the seed of hate and mistrust, which later germinated and blossomed into a towering monument of shame and bloodbath, that would define the country's post-independent history.
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The first Hutu rebellion happened in the 1950s . But the situation turned violent when the king died in 1959. Grégoire Kayibanda would later be elected president in 1961, after Tutsis lost power.
One year later, the country became fully independent from Belgium, along with Burundi.
The independence of Rwanda was only the beginning of a tumultuous slide that culminated in the 1994 genocide that claimed almost one million lives.
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The first Hutu rebellion happened in the 1950s . But the situation turned violent when the king died in 1959. Grégoire Kayibanda would later be elected president in 1961, after Tutsis lost power.
One year later, the country became fully independent from Belgium, along with Burundi.
The independence of Rwanda was only the beginning of a tumultuous slide that culminated in the 1994 genocide that claimed almost one million lives.
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Africa's
Vaccine
Apartheid
The global health system is broken. It is no longer fit for purpose, at least not for the African continent. Vaccine apartheid during the height of the Covid pandemic, which saw countries in the northern hemisphere dominate the world's vaccine supply chains, all but reduced African countries to beggars. According to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa higher-income nations stockpiled critical vaccine doses and administered booster shots to already vaccinated citizens while African countries were denied access to the much needed doses. The vaccine injustice in Africa was not a problem of scarcity, whether of infrastructure or finances, it was the result of a deeply neo-colonial global health system. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments section.
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Vaccine
Apartheid
The global health system is broken. It is no longer fit for purpose, at least not for the African continent. Vaccine apartheid during the height of the Covid pandemic, which saw countries in the northern hemisphere dominate the world's vaccine supply chains, all but reduced African countries to beggars. According to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa higher-income nations stockpiled critical vaccine doses and administered booster shots to already vaccinated citizens while African countries were denied access to the much needed doses. The vaccine injustice in Africa was not a problem of scarcity, whether of infrastructure or finances, it was the result of a deeply neo-colonial global health system. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments section.
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‘Free’ Market
Made Slavery
Possible
A liberal and free market is often touted as a precondition for other types of freedom, including political and social. Watch South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang bust this stubborn myth by citing the example of slavery. Africans were treated as property to be sold and profited from - and, he argues, it was precisely the glorification of a ‘laissez-faire’ economy that made possible this cruel insanity.
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Made Slavery
Possible
A liberal and free market is often touted as a precondition for other types of freedom, including political and social. Watch South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang bust this stubborn myth by citing the example of slavery. Africans were treated as property to be sold and profited from - and, he argues, it was precisely the glorification of a ‘laissez-faire’ economy that made possible this cruel insanity.
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SPEECH THAT
KILLED LUMUMBA
Sixty-three years ago, on 30th June 1960, Congo gained its independence from Belgium.
The African country’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba, delivered an unforgettable speech.
He eloquently rebutted the patronising speech delivered by then Belgian King, Baudouin, who arrogantly claimed that the Congolese should be grateful to his grandfather, King Leopold II, for bringing civilisation to the Great Lakes nation. Leopold II is the man who killed between 10 and 5 million Congolese, maimed more, and turned the region's populations into his personal slaves.
Lumumba explained the horrors of Belgium’s colonial rule, where children’s limbs were chopped off if their parents didn’t meet their daily rubber quotas. He explained that Belgium never gave Congo its independence, but rather it was won by the brave Congolese who gave their blood, sweat and tears.
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KILLED LUMUMBA
Sixty-three years ago, on 30th June 1960, Congo gained its independence from Belgium.
The African country’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba, delivered an unforgettable speech.
He eloquently rebutted the patronising speech delivered by then Belgian King, Baudouin, who arrogantly claimed that the Congolese should be grateful to his grandfather, King Leopold II, for bringing civilisation to the Great Lakes nation. Leopold II is the man who killed between 10 and 5 million Congolese, maimed more, and turned the region's populations into his personal slaves.
Lumumba explained the horrors of Belgium’s colonial rule, where children’s limbs were chopped off if their parents didn’t meet their daily rubber quotas. He explained that Belgium never gave Congo its independence, but rather it was won by the brave Congolese who gave their blood, sweat and tears.
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The speech ultimately cost Lumumba his life. The Belgian King took personal offense. He later conspired with the CIA, M16 and local collaborators to assassinate Lumumba less than a year later.
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KILLED LUMUMBA
The speech ultimately cost Lumumba his life. The Belgian King took personal offense. He later conspired with the CIA, M16 and local collaborators to assassinate Lumumba less than a year later.
Happy Independence day to all our Congolese brothers and sisters. You are a proud people with a rich history!
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Remembering Joshua Nkomo
1st July 2023 marks the 24th anniversary of the death of Zimbabwean liberation war icon, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Fondly known as 'Father Zimbabwe', Nkomo was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), which was one of the two nationalist organizations that waged Zimbabwe's liberation war against the racist Ian Smith regime.
Nkomo was born on 19 June 1918 in Southern Rhodesia in Zimbabwe. In his late teens, he moved to South Africa to further his studies. While there, Nkomo got introduced to anti-colonial politics through interactions with African National Congress (ANC) leaders and activists. After completing his studies, he returned to his native country where he landed a job as a social worker with the Rhodesian Railways in the city of Bulawayo. He quickly became a prominent member of the Black Railway Workers Trade Union.
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1st July 2023 marks the 24th anniversary of the death of Zimbabwean liberation war icon, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Fondly known as 'Father Zimbabwe', Nkomo was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), which was one of the two nationalist organizations that waged Zimbabwe's liberation war against the racist Ian Smith regime.
Nkomo was born on 19 June 1918 in Southern Rhodesia in Zimbabwe. In his late teens, he moved to South Africa to further his studies. While there, Nkomo got introduced to anti-colonial politics through interactions with African National Congress (ANC) leaders and activists. After completing his studies, he returned to his native country where he landed a job as a social worker with the Rhodesian Railways in the city of Bulawayo. He quickly became a prominent member of the Black Railway Workers Trade Union.
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