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  1. I help Americans with research to obtain 2nd

    Many Americans with and *nearly all* with ancestry (#ECOWAS) are either entitled to apply for citizenships, or already have that citizenship, even if they're unaware (e.g. Italian, Canadian)

    Many (e.g. Croatia, Italy, Canada or several African countries) only require one ancestor unlimited generations back.

    I offer a free consultation.

    Just reach out to me directly. Or:
    oceaneditors.com/genealogy/Gen

  2. Piero Hincapié is left without shorts

    The famous footballer’s shorts come off as he falls and is left without underwear, to the embarrassment and general curiosity of thousands of fans.

    https://youtu.be/9S8nngtSeNY

  3. Africa Should Not Require a Visa to Discover Herself

    Panoramic view of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Photo: Nana Heritage Travel across Africa remains far more complicated than it should be for African passport holders. While the continent has made significant progress toward economic integration, visa requirements continue to represent one of the biggest barriers to intra-African tourism. The adoption of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), signed in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2018 and entering into force in 2019, was a historic […]

    nanaheritagecom.wordpress.com/

  4. Wednesday, April 8, 2026

    Russian FPV drone hits civilian bus in rush hour attack as strikes kill 9, injure 51 across Ukraine -- Counterattacking through the kill zone, Ukrainian troops brace for new Russian offensives -- Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway line in Russia's Belgorod Oblast -- Outdated treaties leave Ukraine exposed to wave of international arbitration by Russia ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  5. Und vor dem Abendessen noch ein wenig #Ethiopia mit dem äthiopischen Jazz Saxophonisten #GetachewMekuria und der Niederländischen #Anarcho #Punk Band #TheEx und Friends mit dem 2013er Doppelalbum „Y‘Anbessaw Tezets“
    #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords #Jazz #Folk #Rock #World #African
    Wer auf cooles und unschwülstiges Saxophon steht sollte reinhören.

  6. `In her article ‘not all knights at the round table were white’, Eveleth (2014) discusses how knights of colour have been excluded from the more recent productions of King Arthur’s tales. In the tale of King Arthur, the 14-year-old Dutch Knight Sir Morien, one of six knights of colour, occupies a seat at King Arthur’s round table. The talk will shine a light on this story.`

    museumofcambridge.org.uk/event

    #KingArthur #RoundTable #Knight #BlackKnight #SirMorien #Black #African

  7. #OnThisDay #Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first #Woman in #Space (1963).

    Birth Anniversary of Adam Smith (1723) - Scottish #Economist, #Philosopher, #Author and a pioneer of political economy.

    #IBM (1911) and #Oracle (1977) was founded.

    Today is International Day of the #African #Child.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  8. #RCMP issued an #apology on September 7, 2024, for the historic use of #StreetChecks and other harmful interactions with members of the #African #NovaScotian community. It was an apology too long in coming, for treatment that was, in the words of Rev. Lennett Anderson, “dehumanizing and tragic.” And the RCMP's history suggests we should be deeply skeptical that the proposed action plan will be even close to what is required to remedy these grave injustices.

    In his 2019 report, written for the #NovaScotia #HumanRights Commission, Dr. Scot Wortley defines street checks as any occasion in which civilians are stopped by #police and subjected to intrusive questions, and their personal information collected into a database. He confirmed what community members have known for years: people of African descent in the #Halifax region are almost six times more likely to face street checks.

    It took five years after the release of this report for the RCMP to apologize for the harms caused. They also committed to an action plan, developed in consultation with members of 13 African Nova Scotian communities and the Association of #Black #SocialWorkers.

    mediacoop.ca/node/119259

    #CDNpoli #NSpoli #DefundRCMP #SystematicRacism #ColonialViolence #RacialProfiling #RacistRCMP #RacistCops #ACAB #BlackCanadians #Maritimes #BlackCommunity #ColonialInjustices #SocialJustice #BIPOC #POCinCanada

  9. The Music Of Africa
    Given the vastness of the African continent, its #music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct #musical #traditions #African music includes the #genres #amapiano #jùjú #fuji #afrobeat #highlife #Congolese #rumba #soukous #ndombolo #makossa #kizomba and others.[1] #African music also uses a large variety of instruments across the continent. The music and #dance of the African #diaspora formed to varying degrees on African #musical #traditions include #American #music like #Dixieland #jazz #blues #jazz and many #Caribbean genres such as #calypso (see #kaiso) and #soca Latin American music genres such as #cumbia #salsa music son #cubano #rumba #conga #bomba #samba and #zouk were founded on the music of enslaved #africans and have in turn influenced African popular music

    archive.org/details/lp_the-mus
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of

    #Afrika #afrique #africa #افريقيا

  10. The Music Of Africa
    Given the vastness of the African continent, its #music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct #musical #traditions #African music includes the #genres #amapiano #jùjú #fuji #afrobeat #highlife #Congolese #rumba #soukous #ndombolo #makossa #kizomba and others.[1] #African music also uses a large variety of instruments across the continent. The music and #dance of the African #diaspora formed to varying degrees on African #musical #traditions include #American #music like #Dixieland #jazz #blues #jazz and many #Caribbean genres such as #calypso (see #kaiso) and #soca Latin American music genres such as #cumbia #salsa music son #cubano #rumba #conga #bomba #samba and #zouk were founded on the music of enslaved #africans and have in turn influenced African popular music

    archive.org/details/lp_the-mus
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of

    #Afrika #afrique #africa #افريقيا

  11. #Adesina criticizes #opaque #loans linked to #Africa's #resources

    The head of the #African #Development #Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent's #rich #oil #reserves or essential #minerals used in #smartphones and #electric car #batteries.

    This type of #borrowing has plunged many #African #countries into a #financial #crisis.

    “They're just bad, first and foremost, because you can't value assets properly,” #Akinwumi Adesina said in an interview with The Associated #Press in #Lagos, #Nigeria, last week.

    "If you have #minerals or #oil under the ground, how do you find a #price for a long-term #contract? It's a challenge," he explains.

    Linking future revenues from #natural #resource #exports to loan #repayments is often presented as a way for recipients to obtain f#inancing for #infrastructure #projects and for lenders to reduce the #risk of not getting their money back.

    The shift to #renewable #energy and #electric #vehicles has caused a spike in demand for essential minerals, which favors this type of lending. The agreement between #China and the #Congo illustrates this well. Beijing thus exploits the world's largest #reserves of #cobalt, a mineral used to #manufacture #lithium #batteries.

    French fr.africanews.com/2024/03/12/a

    English fr-africanews-com.translate.go

    #africa #Afrika #afrique

  12. Here’s what’s at stake for #Indigenous peoples at #COP28

    Negotiations happen behind closed doors, but for Indigenous peoples, “a lot of work happens in the hallways.”

    by Anita Hofschneider, Nov 29, 2023

    “Ozawa Bineshi Albert wants the world to stop relying on #FossilFuels. So last year, the co-executive director of #ClimateJusticeAlliance flew from the U.S. to Egypt to make her voice heard at COP27, the international conference on climate change where world leaders gather to negotiate new commitments to battle the #ClimateCrisis.

    ”But at COP27, Albert, who is Anishinaabe and Yuchi, noticed that Indigenous peoples like herself were outnumbered by fossil fuel #lobbyists. She was also struck by how many people touted #nuclear energy as an alternative to burning #oil and #gas

    '#Nuclear is one of the most dirty, damaging energy sources, particularly for #IndigenousPeople,' she thought. 'It touches Indigenous communities all along its lifecycle from where it gets #mined, to where it gets #processed, to where #NuclearPower plants are placed, to where #NuclearWaste gets stored.'

    “That observation was just one indication of how the perspectives, and experiences, of Indigenous peoples aren’t always reflected in the broader #EnvironmentalMovement. As COP28 kicks off in the United Arab Emirates this week, hundreds of Indigenous advocates are making their way to Dubai with the hope of ensuring that their communities aren’t overlooked by global leaders.

    “Though the conference doesn’t officially begin until Thursday, the work has already started. Jennifer Tauli Corpuz is Kankanaey-Igorot from the Philippines and is managing director of policy at Nia Tero. She spent eight hours Tuesday in an auditorium with about 350 fellow members of the #IndigenousPeoplesCaucus, a delegation representing Native peoples, working on the details of a two-minute opening statement that the Caucus will be allowed to give during COP28’s opening ceremony. Corpuz says it’s not easy to distill everyone’s perspectives and issues into such a short statement and the work required interpreters in five languages. 

    “Apart from ending fossil fuel reliance, Indigenous advocates at COP28 want to ensure that funding to offset the impacts of #ClimateChange reaches their communities; ensure Indigenous knowledge is seen as a solution to climate change; and prevent governments and private actors from violating their rights, especially as those actors pursue #GreenEnergy projects. 

    “Corpuz said the caucus plans to approve advocacy papers outlining their positions Wednesday. Then comes the work of convincing negotiators to listen. But it’s not easy. 

    “The estimated 350 Indigenous peoples at COP28 is an attendance record for Native advocates, but it’s still far fewer than the 600 fossil fuel lobbyists who attended COP27 last year. As well, the most important work at the conference, negotiating the exact language of international climate change treaties, gets done behind closed doors among designated representatives from United Nations member countries. 

    “Corpuz estimates that perhaps 20 of the 350 #IndigenousPeople at COP28 this week have government badges that allow them access to negotiations. But even then, because they aren’t credentialed delegates representing a negotiating party, they are only able to watch and listen, not speak, she said.

    “Still, it’s an improvement over past years when Indigenous peoples’ representatives were locked out from even more rooms, said Corpuz. At least now Indigenous representatives will be able to hear the details of the negotiations, the perspectives of international representatives, and carry the information back for advocates to lobby government delegates. 'A lot of the work of the Indigenous Caucus happens in the hallways,' Corpuz said.

    “A key question that’s expected to be decided this year is how much money wealthy nations like the U.S. should pay in order to cover the costs of climate disasters in the Global South, an initiative known as the loss and damage fund. One study estimates that nations in the Global North are responsible for 92% of excess carbon emissions each year, compared with 8% in the Global South.

    “‘What’s at stake is how these finance mechanisms are going to impact and be accessible to Indigenous communities and other impacted communities, how they will be funded, and to what levels will they be funded,' Albert said. 'And will those resources actually get to communities and not be taken up by agencies that will administer them?' 

    “Eriel Deranger of the #Athabasca #Chipewyan #FirstNation in #Canada and executive director of Indigenous Climate Action, thinks that it makes sense that wealthy countries would be paying for climate impacts, but Deranger also wants the money to be available to Indigenous people no matter what country they live in due to already extreme climate impacts, many of which are exacerbated by #colonization and #LandTheft .

    “‘If Canada, for example, or the U.S. is contributing to the loss and damage fund and we don’t have access to it as Indigenous people in North America or in the Global North, where are we going to see those kind of climate reparations and restitution for the damages that we are facing from the climate crisis?' Deranger asked. 

    “But money is only part of the equation, said Kandi White, a citizen of the #Mandan, #Hidatsa, and #Arikara Nations in the U.S. and program director at the Indigenous Environmental Network, which sent a 25-member delegation to Dubai. 'For Indigenous peoples, it’s not just about the money, but it’s also about the return of our #sovereignty over our lands,' said White.  

    “That sovereignty has been threatened by #landgrabs, including recent #landdeals between a #UnitedArabEmirates company and five #African nations for the #CarbonCredit trade, White said. The land deals were touted as a way to help conserve land and offset #pollution, but White is concerned about whether the Indigenous people living there truly #consented to the plan as well as how they’ll be affected. It’s part of a broader pattern of conservation deals that are creating conflict in Indigenous territories around the world.

    “Both Deranger and White, who are in Dubai this week, also hope to establish a grievance procedure through which Indigenous peoples whose rights are infringed upon could hold governments accountable. 'We need there to not just be lip service of, ‘We recognize Indigenous rights,’ but we need to see language that has teeth,' Deranger said. 

    “But securing that level of accountability may be an uphill battle. Even when world leaders make promises, they don’t always fulfill them: wealthy countries blew a 2020 deadline to spend $100 billion a year to help poorer nations cope with climate impacts and make progress toward #decarbonization. One study suggested that goal may have been met last year, two years late, even as the world hurtles toward 3 degrees of warming.

    “The combined challenges—a lack of access to negotiating tables and tepid commitments by global leaders—have fueled disillusionment. Moñeka De Oro, who is Chamorro from the Mariana Islands and co-executive director of the #Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, says that last year at COP some Indigenous Caucus members discussed boycotting the convention, 'no longer being a part of these processes that continuously degrade our input,' she said. 

    “De Oro recently helped draft a declaration for peace, unity and climate justice in the Pacific to be read at COP that called for a future free of #colonialism and #militarization. But as much as she believes in that message, she joined a boycott of this year’s convention with Grassroots Global Justice Alliance protesting the Israeli government’s war on Gaza, and questions whether to attend future meetings. 

    "'If you’re going to continue to continuously be ignored and continuously be just erased from the entire process, I don’t know how much longer we want to be complicit in attending these sorts of things,' she said.

    “The power imbalances can be discouraging but Ozawa Bineshi Albert still feels determined. 

    “‘#COP is not a place that we go to thinking we’re going to get everything we want,' she said. To her, the overarching question is: 'How can we make sure that we at least hold the line and make sure the least amount of damage and the least amount of harm is caused to frontline and Indigenous communities?’”

    grist.org/global-indigenous-af

    #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice #IndigenousConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #BigOilAndGas

  13. 📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Folktales of #Mayotte, an #African Island' by Lee Haring, foreword by Mark Turin.

    The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of #oralnarrators in a small #African island. Relying on the researches of three #French #ethnographers who interviewed #storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-#colonised people using #verbal #art to preserve ancient values in the #postcolonial world, when the island of #Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected #colony to an overseas department of #France.

    The author’s innovation is to read #ethnographic researches as #play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live #performances.

    #Literary specialists, #folklore enthusiasts, and people who like #reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.

    Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at openbookpublishers.com/books/1