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Muslim girls, Cameroon
I’ll take a combination of these rooms please
THAT SECOND ONE LOOKS LIKE THE SLEEP ROOM IN MY MIND PALACE
I think I just had a roomgasm
Got ‘em, coach!
Halle Berry
it seems like no woc in the 90s had on the right colored make up
Lol @ comment. That's because there wasn't much options for black women.
there is no dark skinned and light skinned aunt viv
there is aunt viv
and some other woman that played uncle phil’s wife that they called aunt viv
Malcolm X on the Assasination of Lumumba in the Congo
Malcolm X points to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in Africa by Moise Tshombe (with the help of the CIA) as a clear example of post-Colonial foreign interference. Lumumba was the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Ten weeks later, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup. He was subsequently imprisoned and murdered, with clear signs pointing to the support and complicity of both Belgium and the United States.
The traditional music plays and children, some dressed in Ethiopian costume, perform a traditional dance: Raising and lowering their shoulders to the beat.
Like millions of other children in the United States, these American-Ethiopians are at summer camp.
However, this one is about maintaining their connection with their roots abroad.
The camp, which is for about 35 children, is at the Ethiopian Community Centre.
It is in a regular office block on one of the main roads out of the US capital, Washington DC.
A 21-minute drive away is the grand venue where African heads of state and President Barak Obama are discussing US-Africa relations.
As the leaders try to negotiate a new phase of that relationship, the Ethiopian diaspora community is grappling with how it should relate to back home.
A great African leader he was
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sweetbloodsomalia so me and you!!!
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There were countries in Africa that were under European colonial domination well into the 1950’s and 1960’s. How is European colonialism a thing that happened “centuries ago”?
Some were still under colonial rule into the 70s. Mozambique didn’t gain independence from Portugal until 1975. This is all modern history.
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