When I went to Europe

I have to start off by saying it was a tough decision to make.  I’ve never left my  my friends and family to embark on a journey to a place where I knew no one. But my world as I knew it was too tiny and there’s so much out there I didn’t know of. 

I visited Europe last month and stayed in this place next to what they call the Eiffel Tower. I loved it. such a strange architecture to symbolize the exotic beauty and power of its people. With my small backpack and my Nikon D7000 camera, I set off futher to explore Europe.

I took pictures along the way. there was a Tomato Festival going on at the time and I managed to get tickets to see a Bull Fighting! The sight was alarming and facinating all at once- a sport to symbolise the raw energy and passion that European people had were shown through this bull fighting. Beautiful!

I went to a shelter and saw some homeless people begging on the streets. It is such a shame how enriched, yet, so poor Europeans are. My heart weeps for Europeans; their courage and strength to survive is inspiring. 

There were loud music playing and people in the streets all looking happy and joyful because they were celebrating ‘OktoberFest’, a day to mark their love of beer and to show that even Europeans have good things to celebrate in life to distract from their everyday pain. I was aware of my privilege so I asked to join this festival incase I upset the natives. What a blast!

I took so many pictures (will post on Facebook later) of the children dancing and smiling but some elders complained about this, they didn’t seem comfortable with a complete stranger touching their young children and taking photos of them to later put on the internet.

I suppose to them, I am a stranger in the midst but it was so joyful having pictures to show back home of my experiences! I am sure they won’t mind in the end. And the children were such wonders! They were so curious about my clothes (I don’t think Europeans have ever seen Nigerian clothes in their life, it must have been so strange for them to view my own culture! It just reminded me of how deprived they were)

After I stopped at the Leaning Tower of Pisa (a great art of their sort!) I went back to  Arba Airport near Helsinki (after I spent a day at Trafalgar Square, pics coming soon) and borded my flight back home, having grown up a little from viewing European Life. 

I am currently saving up to get a tatto of Europe on my shoulder , with a love heart located at the center to represent Belguim. As the Europeans say: 

Τα καλά πράγματα έρχεται σε εκείνους που περιμένουν 

Peace my friends <3

You don't say

GAZA - heartbreaking

A Palestinian child mourns during the funeral of his father and brother whom were killed by Israeli airstrikes in #Gaza yesterday.

طفل فلسطيني يودع والده وأخاه الذين ارتقيا بقصف الاحتلال أمس.

Yürek burkan sahneler.. Filistinli bir çocuk dün #Gazze'de İsrail hava saldırıları sonucu hayatını kaybeden babası ve kardeşinin cenazesinde yas tutuyor.

SPEAK UP! SPREAD THIS! REBLOG!

I feel nothing for either of these invaders of North Africa!

North African person here to say that @bbridge4th is a jackass and you should all block him 🙂

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

these look so beautiful omg

Lets not forget the beauty that is Chefchaouen, Morocco;

Absolutely magical place. I visited there over 20 years ago and what was remarkable was how cool the blue walls were to the touch. And the Moroccan people are so friendly and hospitable.

I’m SO glad to see Morocco and specifically Chefchouen included here! My visit there a few years back included some of the most incredibly kind people I met on my travels and it was truly a beautiful place.

if you’re maghrebi i need your help!

i’ve tried so many things for years so i thought i’d try social media for this now.

i’m an adopted moroccan who’s looking for her birth mother, i was born on september 5th 1995 in Berkane, morocco.

i’ve been searching for her for years with absolutely no result whatsoever, i was born at a woman’s house who was a nursing mother and helped my mother with my birth. the police in berkane were involved and took me to a hospital that now doesn’t exist anymore but i got transferred to hospital al farabi in oujda.

if you know/are someone from berkane it would mean the world to me if you could spread the word about this to any moroccan you know and especially people from berkane.

non-moroccans if you have any moroccan mutuals i would really appreciate it if you rb’d this! ♥️

CASTING CALL FOR POC AND TRANS FOLK IN/AROUND MASSACHUSETTS!

Sharing on behalf of my friend Ryley

PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE WITH ANYBODY YOU THINK COULD BE INTERESTED!

Thank you!

Shoutout to all the csa survivors who have to suffer ppls vile and inhuman csa apologia in the wake of Bowies death

the girl’s name was lori maddox, a model who apparently also “dated” jimmy page when she was 14. she lost her virginity to david AND angie bowie.

Here’s a link to an interview where the victim, Lori, talks about it (obvious TW for CSA, rape, pedophilia, etc) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnViqstGsYs&t=11m24s

David Bowie news is upsetting me.

I never thought that saying statutory rape is always wrong would be a controversial opinion among feminists, but here we are.

For UK Tumblr: Donating to Calais Refugees

I feel like it would be much easier if I just made a collective post of information instead of giving people this information individually, also this way we can signal boost this to people who aren’t following my blog and who wouldn’t see it otherwise

Not everybody is in a place financially to donate money, but most of us have things laying around the house that we don’t need/use that could make all the difference in the world to the refugees currently in Calais.

Here are things that you can donate

Clothing

Food

Hygiene products

Other

Here is a map of all organizations across the UK who are doing donation drop offs

Some of these organizations are in need of an extra pair of hands to help load and unload things, some need more transportation which would require you to go to Calais with them.

Contact the individual organizations for more information