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  1. I'm happy that #Kenyans are organising demonstrations against president Ruto on his speech against #Burundians in Kenya, we are saying no #African is a foreigner in #Kenya.

    Kenya moves to register frightened Burundians as tension over foreign traders rises.

    bbc.com/news/articles/c158wwl2

  2. I'm happy that #Kenyans are organising demonstrations against president Ruto on his speech against #Burundians in Kenya, we are saying no #African is a foreigner in #Kenya.

    Kenya moves to register frightened Burundians as tension over foreign traders rises.

    bbc.com/news/articles/c158wwl2

  3. I'm happy that #Kenyans are organising demonstrations against president Ruto on his speech against #Burundians in Kenya, we are saying no #African is a foreigner in #Kenya.

    Kenya moves to register frightened Burundians as tension over foreign traders rises.

    bbc.com/news/articles/c158wwl2

  4. I'm happy that #Kenyans are organising demonstrations against president Ruto on his speech against #Burundians in Kenya, we are saying no #African is a foreigner in #Kenya.

    Kenya moves to register frightened Burundians as tension over foreign traders rises.

    bbc.com/news/articles/c158wwl2

  5. I'm happy that are organising demonstrations against president Ruto on his speech against in Kenya, we are saying no is a foreigner in .

    Kenya moves to register frightened Burundians as tension over foreign traders rises.

    bbc.com/news/articles/c158wwl2

  6. Der Semesterschwerpunkt #DigitaleKulturen startet heute mit zwei kostenfreien Vorträgen im Haus der Bildung: Digitale Alltagskultur in #China und An #African Approach to #AI in #Healthcare. Der letzte ist eine Hybrid-Veranstaltung, an der ihr auch online teilnehmen könnt. Kommet bitte zuhauf und staunet!
    Details finden sich hier:
    vhs-bonn.de/programm/politik-w

  7. Der Semesterschwerpunkt #DigitaleKulturen startet heute mit zwei kostenfreien Vorträgen im Haus der Bildung: Digitale Alltagskultur in #China und An #African Approach to #AI in #Healthcare. Der letzte ist eine Hybrid-Veranstaltung, an der ihr auch online teilnehmen könnt. Kommet bitte zuhauf und staunet!
    Details finden sich hier:
    vhs-bonn.de/programm/politik-w

  8. Der Semesterschwerpunkt #DigitaleKulturen startet heute mit zwei kostenfreien Vorträgen im Haus der Bildung: Digitale Alltagskultur in #China und An #African Approach to #AI in #Healthcare. Der letzte ist eine Hybrid-Veranstaltung, an der ihr auch online teilnehmen könnt. Kommet bitte zuhauf und staunet!
    Details finden sich hier:
    vhs-bonn.de/programm/politik-w

  9. Der Semesterschwerpunkt #DigitaleKulturen startet heute mit zwei kostenfreien Vorträgen im Haus der Bildung: Digitale Alltagskultur in #China und An #African Approach to #AI in #Healthcare. Der letzte ist eine Hybrid-Veranstaltung, an der ihr auch online teilnehmen könnt. Kommet bitte zuhauf und staunet!
    Details finden sich hier:
    vhs-bonn.de/programm/politik-w

  10. Der Semesterschwerpunkt #DigitaleKulturen startet heute mit zwei kostenfreien Vorträgen im Haus der Bildung: Digitale Alltagskultur in #China und An #African Approach to #AI in #Healthcare. Der letzte ist eine Hybrid-Veranstaltung, an der ihr auch online teilnehmen könnt. Kommet bitte zuhauf und staunet!
    Details finden sich hier:
    vhs-bonn.de/programm/politik-w

  11. Theresa Musoke (b.1945)

    Theresa Musoke (b.1945) is a Ugandan-Kenyan painter and visual artist most well known for her experimentational and expressive depictions of Kenyan wildlife and women's experiences in African. via W #PalianSHOW

    palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/

  12. Theresa Musoke (b.1945)

    Theresa Musoke (b.1945) is a Ugandan-Kenyan painter and visual artist most well known for her experimentational and expressive depictions of Kenyan wildlife and women's experiences in African. via W #PalianSHOW

    palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/

  13. #Trans & #Intersex #History #Africa — Digital Archive

    "It is important that we as #African trans, #gender diverse and intersex people speak for ourselves" — #VictorMukasa

    "This statement by one of Trans & Intersex History Africa’s (TIHA) founders, Victor Mukasa, speaks to the rationale behind the TIHA digital archive, the history of trans, gender diverse and intersex movements in Africa, and the importance of archiving our histories/herstories/theirstories.

    Supporting advocacy and movement building through archiving

    We document events and important moments in a digital archive in the form of a visual timeline, as well as audio and video interviews as experienced and remembered by activists on the African Continent and within the #AfricanDiaspora.

    As is the case worldwide, the anti-gender, conservative, #TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) rhetoric continues to gain strength and influences government policies, law and public sentiment, which impacts trans, gender diverse and intersex people’s lived realities and their fundamental human rights. We believe that the Trans & Intersex History in Africa (#TIHA) digital archive can contribute to the efforts of organisations, specifically those who cannot publicise their work due to threat of financial and legal consequences (which includes one of our founding partners), to ensure that trans, gender diverse and intersex existence and lived experience is recorded. This record will play a part in ensuring the collaborative strength of the African movements in combating the anti-trans, anti-gender-diverse and anti-intersex sentiment on the continent and in the African diaspora.

    The TIHA digital archive acknowledges the existence of multiple movements, networks, groups and individuals and that the stories to be told are intersectional and carry various voices to form histories/herstories/theirstories. We are making a start with the information currently available but invite stories in whatever media to be submitted from across the continent and from the many places and voices not yet represented.

    While we are in a continuous process of rethinking this important work, we invite you to engage with the information that the TIHA digital archive and Trans & Intersex Archival Conversations present. Get involved! Reach out! You can list your organisation/group, share your stories through the Timeline or through the Talk Show by getting in touch with us. We particularly invite first person stories and can facilitate the sharing of these in various languages."

    Learn more:
    transintersexhistory.africa/

    #GBLTQ #LGBTQI #Transpeople #TransHistory #GenderQueer #Agender #Genderfluid #QueerHistory #Africans #RejectColonialism

  14. #African #Queer Youth Initiative

    "Our History

    A group of young #LGBTQI+ activists founded the African Queer Youth Initiative during the 5th Changing Faces and Changing Spaces Conference in Nairobi, #Kenya, in June 2015.

    Our founding members recognised the need to elevate the needs and aspirations of young people within the larger LGBTQI+ movement and to create a space where they could be seen as equal partners in the struggle for equality. Since then, #AQYI has become a vibrant network of African youth activists united by our shared commitment to building a more #inclusive and #equitable society.

    Since our inception, we have grown exponentially; our members come from southern, northern, eastern, and western Africa, as well as the African Islands, representing a diverse and vibrant community of young queer people. We continue to work with African LGBTQI+ youths to develop innovative and youth-led strategies for empowering LGBTQI+ youths across Africa, as well as platforms that allow them to engage actively and have an authentic voice in the fight for their freedom."

    aqyi.org/about-us/

    #LGBTQ #GBLTQ #QueerYouth #TransYouth #NonBinary #GenderQueer #Africa #RejectColonialism

  15. I've been digging Genesis Owusu -- Smiling With No Teeth for about a week now. He a Black Australian with roots in Ghana. This album is full of all kinds of styles, including punk, tech, synth, rap, oldies. Really fun.

    genesisowusu.bandcamp.com/albu

    #genesisowusu #black #black mastodon #music #africanmusic #australianmusic #african #australian #oldies #rap #tech #techno #synth #ghana #ghanan #punk

  16. @Em0nM4stodon

    I've been digging Genesis Owusu -- Smiling With No Teeth for about a week now. He a Black Australian with roots in Ghana. This album is full of all kinds of styles, including punk, tech, synth, rap, oldies. Really fun.

    genesisowusu.bandcamp.com/albu

    #genesisowusu #black #black mastodon #music #africanmusic #australianmusic #african #australian #oldies #rap #tech #techno #synth #ghana #ghanan #punk

  17. The One-Eyed #African Queen Who Defeated the #RomanEmpire

    Cocky male monarchs underestimated #QueenAmanirenas for her gender, her race, and her disability. Each time, they did so at their own peril.

    Adhiambo Edith Magak
    Sep 22, 2021

    Excerpt: "The legendary Roman emperor #CaesarAugustus was on the Greek island of Samos, preparing for an important expedition to Syria, when he received envoys from the Kingdom of #Kush, in present-day #Sudan. Journalist Selina O’Grady records in her book And Man Created God that the ambassadors presented Augustus with a bundle of golden arrows and relayed this message: 'The Candace sends you these arrows.' (Candace was the Latinized spelling of #Kandake, the Kushite term for 'queen.')

    "They added that the emperor had two options for how to view the offering: 'If you want peace, they are a token of her warmth and friendship. If you want war, you will need them.'

    "For an African queen to give such an ultimatum to the most powerful man in the world would have been considered a serious insult. After all, #Augustus had almost single-handedly transformed #Rome from a republic to an empire, and the territory he now reigned over stretched from as far as northern Spain, through to parts of central Europe, and all the way to Egypt. His legions wore bronze breastplates and wielded spears, swords and javelins, all much superior to the hatchets the #Kushites carried as weapons. In addition, Kush had many natural resources — such as gold mines, iron and ivory — that could have enriched the treasuries of Rome, enticing Augustus to attack, even without the insult.

    "But this Kushite queen — whom the Greek geographer and historian Strabo of Amasia described as 'a masculine sort of woman and blind in one eye' — had proved to be a formidable foe for the 'son of god,' the title given to Caesar Augustus on Roman coins. He received the bundle of arrows from the envoys and promptly signed a peace treaty.

    "In truth, this was not so much a treaty as it was a surrender. Augustus submitted to all of the demands made by Queen #Amanirenas, including that the Romans withdraw from all Kushite territories they had occupied and pledge that they would never again seek to collect taxes or tributes from her kingdom.

    "It was a remarkable concession for the world’s most powerful man, demonstrating just how feared and respected the one-eyed queen truly was."

    Read more / listen:
    narratively.com/p/the-one-eyed

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/PGd0v

    #AfricanQueen #RomanHistory #PowerfulWomen #AfricanHistory

  18. Tuesday, August 5, 2025

    Massive Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast — Pokrovsk is the city of my childhood. Now I watch it die — Ukrainian soldier working as Russian ‘mole,’ sending GRU military positions — Zelensky says mercenaries from Asia and Africa fighting for Russia in northeastern Ukraine … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  19. Sunday, April 27 2025

    Russia attacked Chornobyl Nuclear Plant in February, damaging confinement. Can it be fully restored? — US signals support for Europe’s peacekeeping coalition in Ukraine — Russia training to integrate motorcycles into summer offensive in Ukraine — Interpol investigates Russian company for human trafficking over African workers in Tatarstan drone factory … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025