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Kalimera!

#owncast #streaming #music #dub #hiphop #reggae #jazz #prog #triphop #folk #african #middleeastern #acid #bleeps #jungle #electronica #onusound #liotia #soundmakers #voso #theassemblyworker #inpc #onemanandhisturntable

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I'm playing records on the internet again.

Kalimera!

#owncast #streaming #music #dub #hiphop #reggae #jazz #prog #triphop #folk #african #middleeastern #acid #bleeps #jungle #electronica #onusound #liotia #soundmakers #voso #theassemblyworker #inpc #onemanandhisturntable

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/413402/ To Be African Or Not: Morocco’s Old Struggle #AFCON #African #amazigh #Arab #colonization #colorism #culture #discourse #FootballRiot #History #identity #MoroccanRacism #Morocco #MoroccoFootball #race #Racism #xenophobia

https://www.europesays.com/africa/411225/ Africa bigger and US smaller as UN adopts new map #adopt #Adopts #Africa #African #America #and #as #assembly #back #bigger #continent #countries #Europe #friday #General #makes #map #Nations #new #north #resolution #several #shrinking #smaller #spearheaded #that #Their #UN #united #US #voted #while

https://www.europesays.com/africa/411162/ UN votes to adopt new world map reflecting Africa’s true size #Africa #African #TheAfricanUnion #TheUnitedNationsGeneralAssembly #Togo #UnitedNations

https://www.europesays.com/africa/410367/ SMALL-CAP MOVERS: Angola, the Falklands and deep-sea data centres #02p #14 #28 #28August #AdonisPouroulis #African #AfricanMineralsLtd #aim #angola #Block14 #BWEnergy #Chariot #Chevron #Company #Eroxon #EtuEnergias #falklands #FRA:GHA0) shares #FuturaMedical #OrcadianEnergyPLC #partnership #PeekoLiveCommerce #plymouth #PlymouthFisheries #ProspectiveResources #Southern #SouthernPetroleum #SuttonHarbourHoldings #SuttonHarbourMarina #TIKTOK #TikTokLiveAndTikTokAuctions

I help Americans with #genealogy research to obtain 2nd #citizenship

Many Americans with #European #ancestry and *nearly all* with #African 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:
https://oceaneditors.com/genealogy/Genealogy.html

Tens of Thousands in Spain Protest Ceuta Border Crisis https://www.byteseu.com/2335373/ #2 #a #african #annual #border #BY #celebrates #ceuta #city #coast #Crisis #holiday #ignored #in #Islam #its #largely #mainland #normally #northern #of #official #on #perched #protest #Sept #Spain #spanish #speck #Tens #territory #the #thousands #times #Tiny

Tens of Thousands in Spain Protest Ceuta Border Crisis

Islam Times – The city of Ceuta, a tiny speck of Spanish territory perched on the northern African…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #2 #a #African #annual #border #by #celebrates #ceuta #city #coast #crisis #Holiday #ignored #in #Islam #its #largely #mainland #normally #Northern #of #official #on #perched #protest #sept. #spanish #speck #Tens #territory #the #thousands #Times #tiny
https://www.europesays.com/spain/80487/

Sun and Dust by Roberto Pazzi

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#horizontal #photography #herd #horned #mammal #dust #rays #ash #sunset #full #length #silhouette #cattle #camp #mundari #cows #animals #africa #south #sudan #people #culture #day #african #ethnicity #outdoors #tribal #village #sony #reportage

The Sun’s Beloved – Àsùnmọ́ (Embrace the Sun)

a half dragon born to Ashuton, Nari and Niccolo
a dragon of the moon and stars, worshipped in the modern day
he was stolen from them and marked as a divine envoy
forced to join the proto-Sun Devourer cult
he is forced to telepathically connect to an emotionally distant serpent god
it is painful for him, but he feels himself growing closer to the seemingly cold god
his followers await his reappearance
even in his absence, they still beg for his guidance under the Big Dipper

day after day he completes tasks meant to appease the serpent
writing constant devotions, praises and affirmations
but sometimes he fights against it
he writes his resistance against the serpent
as punishment for his insubordination,
the serpent cursed him to become his divine representative
forsaking his own divinity of the stars and pledging only to him
linking them for as long as he lives

but at the end of his service, Àsùnmọ́ is fated to be devoured
brought before the serpent and eaten, his power stolen in the process
he values his life, he values waking up every morning
he values the moon, the stars, the sky, grapes, the friends he once had
he doesn’t want to die…
he still dreams of having his first kiss

Name meaning

A common Yorùbá oríki, likely meaning someone that you like to be with or be around. (Source)

Read about the Sun Serpent here

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The Sun’s Beloved – Àsùnmọ́ (Embrace the Sun)

a half dragon born to Ashuton, Nari and Niccolo
a dragon of the moon and stars, worshipped in the modern day
he was stolen from them and marked as a divine envoy
forced to join the proto-Sun Devourer cult
he is forced to telepathically connect to an emotionally distant serpent god
it is painful for him, but he feels himself growing closer to the seemingly cold god
his followers await his reappearance
even in his absence, they still beg for his guidance under the Big Dipper

day after day he completes tasks meant to appease the serpent
writing constant devotions, praises and affirmations
but sometimes he fights against it
he writes his resistance against the serpent
as punishment for his insubordination,
the serpent cursed him to become his divine representative
forsaking his own divinity of the stars and pledging only to him
linking them for as long as he lives

but at the end of his service, Àsùnmọ́ is fated to be devoured
brought before the serpent and eaten, his power stolen in the process
he values his life, he values waking up every morning
he values the moon, the stars, the sky, grapes, the friends he once had
he doesn’t want to die…
he still dreams of having his first kiss

Name meaning

A common Yorùbá oríki, likely meaning someone that you like to be with or be around. (Source)

Read about the Sun Serpent here

Rate this:

The Sun’s Beloved – Àsùnmọ́ (Embrace the Sun)

a half dragon born to Ashuton, Nari and Niccolo
a dragon of the moon and stars, worshipped in the modern day
he was stolen from them and marked as a divine envoy
forced to join the proto-Sun Devourer cult
he is forced to telepathically connect to an emotionally distant serpent god
it is painful for him, but he feels himself growing closer to the seemingly cold god
his followers await his reappearance
even in his absence, they still beg for his guidance under the Big Dipper

day after day he completes tasks meant to appease the serpent
writing constant devotions, praises and affirmations
but sometimes he fights against it
he writes his resistance against the serpent
as punishment for his insubordination,
the serpent cursed him to become his divine representative
forsaking his own divinity of the stars and pledging only to him
linking them for as long as he lives

but at the end of his service, Àsùnmọ́ is fated to be devoured
brought before the serpent and eaten, his power stolen in the process
he values his life, he values waking up every morning
he values the moon, the stars, the sky, grapes, the friends he once had
he doesn’t want to die…
he still dreams of having his first kiss

Name meaning

A common Yorùbá oríki, likely meaning someone that you like to be with or be around. (Source)

Read about the Sun Serpent here

Rate this:

The Sun’s Beloved – Àsùnmọ́ (Embrace the Sun)

a half dragon born to Ashuton, Nari and Niccolo
a dragon of the moon and stars, worshipped in the modern day
he was stolen from them and marked as a divine envoy
forced to join the proto-Sun Devourer cult
he is forced to telepathically connect to an emotionally distant serpent god
it is painful for him, but he feels himself growing closer to the seemingly cold god
his followers await his reappearance
even in his absence, they still beg for his guidance under the Big Dipper

day after day he completes tasks meant to appease the serpent
writing constant devotions, praises and affirmations
but sometimes he fights against it
he writes his resistance against the serpent
as punishment for his insubordination,
the serpent cursed him to become his divine representative
forsaking his own divinity of the stars and pledging only to him
linking them for as long as he lives

but at the end of his service, Àsùnmọ́ is fated to be devoured
brought before the serpent and eaten, his power stolen in the process
he values his life, he values waking up every morning
he values the moon, the stars, the sky, grapes, the friends he once had
he doesn’t want to die…
he still dreams of having his first kiss

Name meaning

A common Yorùbá oríki, likely meaning someone that you like to be with or be around. (Source)

Read about the Sun Serpent here

Rate this:

The Sun’s Beloved – Àsùnmọ́ (Embrace the Sun)

a half dragon born to Ashuton, Nari and Niccolo
a dragon of the moon and stars, worshipped in the modern day
he was stolen from them and marked as a divine envoy
forced to join the proto-Sun Devourer cult
he is forced to telepathically connect to an emotionally distant serpent god
it is painful for him, but he feels himself growing closer to the seemingly cold god
his followers await his reappearance
even in his absence, they still beg for his guidance under the Big Dipper

day after day he completes tasks meant to appease the serpent
writing constant devotions, praises and affirmations
but sometimes he fights against it
he writes his resistance against the serpent
as punishment for his insubordination,
the serpent cursed him to become his divine representative
forsaking his own divinity of the stars and pledging only to him
linking them for as long as he lives

but at the end of his service, Àsùnmọ́ is fated to be devoured
brought before the serpent and eaten, his power stolen in the process
he values his life, he values waking up every morning
he values the moon, the stars, the sky, grapes, the friends he once had
he doesn’t want to die…
he still dreams of having his first kiss

Name meaning

A common Yorùbá oríki, likely meaning someone that you like to be with or be around. (Source)

Read about the Sun Serpent here

Rate this:

Suri Warrior by Rod Waddington

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#africa #afrique #african #afrika #äthiopien #ethiopia #ethiopian #ethnic #ethnicity #etiopia #ethiopie #etiopian #kibish #wells #suri #tribe #warrior #culture #cultural #portrait #people #blackandwhite #mono #monochrome #nikond810 #nikon #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Siblings by Roberto Pazzi

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#lifestyles #outdoors #portrait #people #street #travel #doors #young #girl #children #sister #brother #baby #siblings #ivory #coast #africa #photography #childhood #standing #culture #african #ethnicity #full #length #looking #camera #sony #two #persons

#StKitts and #Nevis is all set to host the highly anticipated Sugar Mas, an event that promotes local #music, dance and #cultural expression blending with #African and European traditions. https://wicnews.com/saint-kitts-nevis/st-kitts-and-nevis-to-mark-55th-sugar-mas-carnival-with-major-celebrations

https://www.europesays.com/africa/?p=151193 A Love Letter to Northern Nigeria and a Call to Sustainability and Nigerian Tourism #African #BankeKuku #BankeKukuUnveils``savannah #British #CentralSaintMartins #ChelseaCollegeOfArt #GroundingAs #lagos #LoveLetter #NewVision #Nigeria #Nigerian #NigerianFashion #NigerianTourismWith #Nigerians #NorthernNigeria #NotStrategy #Oceans #SAHEL #savannah #soul #TheNorth

Tonight 13/3 21h Rojah Lao & Tralala Brand Live @ Horloge du Sud, Ixelles Brussels
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#livemusic #Brusselsparty #Matonge #african #roots #reggae #afrobeat #togo #restaurant #harmonica #bluesharp

"Moor" is whatever you want it to be, so let's make it rock?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1459598/moor-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be-so-let-s-make-it-rock

The Priest and the Book by Roberto Pazzi

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#portrait #people #street #outdoors #woman #environmental #culture #man #ethio #pia #book #priest #orthodox #face #reading #africa #photography #holy #beard #place #glance #lalibela #wrinkles #african #elderly #two #persons #religion #looking #camera

The Priest and the Book by Roberto Pazzi

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#portrait #people #street #outdoors #woman #environmental #culture #man #ethio #pia #book #priest #orthodox #face #reading #africa #photography #holy #beard #place #glance #lalibela #wrinkles #african #elderly #two #persons #religion #looking #camera

The Priest and the Book by Roberto Pazzi

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#portrait #people #street #outdoors #woman #environmental #culture #man #ethio #pia #book #priest #orthodox #face #reading #africa #photography #holy #beard #place #glance #lalibela #wrinkles #african #elderly #two #persons #religion #looking #camera

The Priest and the Book by Roberto Pazzi

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#portrait #people #street #outdoors #woman #environmental #culture #man #ethio #pia #book #priest #orthodox #face #reading #africa #photography #holy #beard #place #glance #lalibela #wrinkles #african #elderly #two #persons #religion #looking #camera

U.S. Shifts Approach: Prioritizing Business Partnerships and Negotiations in African Policy #EastAfrica #SouthernAfrica #WestAfrica #Africa #African #approach #business #BusinessandFinance #Coted #currentevents #Economy #negotiations #news #Partnerships #policy #politics #Prioritizing #shifts #sports #trade #travel #U.S 
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This saturday 1st of February
Rojah Lao & Tralala Band
Concert 21h
at Ginger Bar
72, rue Haute - 1000 Bruxelles
Musique reggae & d'Afrique de l'ouest
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#livemusic #reggae #african #musicians #band #harmonica #blues #Brussels #brusselsparty

#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.

https://mediacoop.ca/node/119259

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

African Forest Elephants Help Fight Climate Change

Discover the awe-inspiring role of African forest #elephants in the Congo Basin—nature’s master gardeners who literally shape the world around them! These gentle giants roam through muddy, mineral-rich paradises called baïs, fostering the growth of carbon-absorbing trees that make our planet healthier. By tending to these unique landscapes, they are the unsung heroes in the fight against climate change. Want to ensure these ecological architects keep doing their vital work? Join the movement to protect their habitat—say no to palm oil and adopt a vegan lifestyle! 🐘🌳#BoycottPalmOil #BeVegan #Boycott4Wildlife

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This story was written by Leonie Joubert and originally published by Mongabay on August 15, 2023 and was republished under a Creative Commons licence.

The approach to the “village of elephants” in the Sangha Rainforest in the Central African Republic must be made in complete silence. Not even the faintest rustle of backpack on rain jacket should break the soundscape as visitors wade through the sometimes waist-deep swamp at the forest’s edge. The Indigenous Ba’aka guides must be able to listen for any signs of nearby elephants, so they can steer the visitors clear and avoid a close encounter with these giants. When a few pachyderms saunter out of the dense greenery, the Ba’aka shoo them away calmly.

The thick vegetation gives way suddenly to a baï. This is no mere watering hole. The sandy clearing stretches for half a kilometer, more than a quarter of a mile, in the otherwise unbroken canopy of the world’s second-largest tropical forest.

A handful of researchers camp out on a timber observation platform, overlooking a place that has drawn generations of elephants to its mineral- and salt-laden sand and muddy water. They document how the animals use their trunks or tusks to dig into the sand, eavesdrop on the animals’ conversations, and count the many other species that congregate here.

This is Dzanga baï, a meeting place for critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas where these animals come together in huge numbers to dig for nutrients they can’t get from the otherwise abundant forests.

Baïs are unique to the Congo Basin’s forests, and new research is underway to understand the role these mineral-rich pockets play as a supplement to the elephants’ diet, how this sustains the animals’ population, and how they therefore contribute to the carbon-capture function of the forest.

Unlike the Amazon, the Congo Basin’s forests still have their original megafauna, elephants in particular. And they have these salt-rich clearings. Conservationists are beginning to understand the importance of elephants as forest gardeners here, and how their taste for certain trees and fruits has sculpted a forest that absorbs more carbon per hectare than the Amazon.

The Global Carbon Budget project estimated Africa’s total greenhouse gas emissions for 2021 at 1.45 billion metric tons. Every year, the Congo Basin’s forests soak up 1.1 billion metric tons of atmospheric carbon, storing it in trees and soil; in 2020 carbon credit prices, this service would be worth $55 billion.

Forest elephants, smaller than their better-known savanna cousins or even Asian elephants, prefer certain lower-growing, tasty trees. This picky browsing pressure creates gaps in the canopy that allow other, less palatable but carbon-dense species to reach tremendous heights. Elephants’ appetite for the fruit of these bigger trees then means they spread their seeds far and wide.

A 2019 study from the Ndoki Forest in the Republic of Congo (ROC) and LuiKotale in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) estimated that if elephants were removed from these sites, the loss of their forest-shaping food preferences would reduce the forest’s carbon capture by 7%.

This finding makes a case not only to stop deforestation in the Congo Basin, but to protect the elephants too, as a way to slow climate breakdown, the study authors wrote.

Salt licks for elephants, gardeners of the forest

Mouangi baï is only about 250 km (155 mi) from Dzanga baï as the crow flies, but it takes a day or two to travel by road and river to get from one to the other.

Researchers with the conservation organization African Parks and Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology are zeroing in on Mouangi and other baïs in Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the ROC, to clarify the link between baïs, elephants and the forest’s tree species composition.

Nicknamed Capitale by the locals, Mouangi baï in Odzala draws hundreds, maybe even thousands, of elephants, according to Gwili Gibbon, research and monitoring head at African Parks, which manages the park along with the ROC government.

“Mouangi is one of our largest and most renowned baïs,” Gibbon says.

At the intersection of two rivers, Mouangi is more than 1 km (0.6 mi) across and spans 91 hectares (225 acres). It’s the largest of a dozen of Odzala’s baïs that the African Parks and Harvard research collaboration is focusing on.

Odzala-Kokoua National Park extends across 1.35 million hectares (3.34 million acres), and while it has a few thousand baïs, often occurring in clusters within the forest, this ecosystem makes up only about 0.2% of the park’s footprint. Nevertheless, these clearings may be integral to the shape of the forest itself, which is why Harvard assistant professor Andrew Davies and doctoral researcher Evan Hockridge are teaming up with African Parks to understand the importance of the salty watering holes in supporting elephant populations, which then shape the forest mosaic.

The baïs are clearly a hotspot that elephants seek out for their rare minerals in an ecosystem rooted in the nutrient-poor soils typical of the region.

“The elephants use their tusks to scrape topsoil off in specific areas, and eat the finer dust on the surface,” says Hockridge, a landscape ecologist. “They also dig large mining sites or wells, as much as a meter [3 feet] deep.”

The animals’ excavations go even deeper at times, down to where water carries the salt in a more accessible form. The need to ingest the mineral-rich dust, mud and water keeps the animals returning to these sites.

But how the baïs formed in the first place — they’re present in the Congo Basin, but not in the Amazon — and why they remain clear of forest encroachment are still a mystery.

Hockridge says no one has tried to establish if the now-extinct megafauna of the Amazon once made similar clearings there, or if baï size correlates to the size of the animals visiting them.

“One hypothesis is that megafauna effectively create large, nutrient-rich, lick-like clearings. But it hasn’t been quantified that baïs are manufactured or maintained by megafauna,” he says.

The researchers say they hope to answer this puzzle: Do large mammals like elephants maintain and stabilize the baïs?

Anecdotes from the DRC might give the first glimpse of an answer, according to Harvard’s Davies.

“Baïs may be closing in the DRC, and it could be because the elephants are in a war zone, so they don’t have the big bulldozer effect,” he says.

The hypothesis is that if fewer elephants visit and maintain these clearings, the baïs will be swallowed up by the forest.

Gibbon’s African Parks team has set up experimental plots in the Odzala, where they’ve buried salt in the sand at a similar depth to which elephants excavate. Researchers are monitoring these sites to see if more animals will congregate around the plots, whether this impacts the vegetation cover in and around the baïs, and whether there’s a shift in the carbon-capture potential of the surrounding forests.

This study is centered in Odzala, although the researchers say they hope to expand the work into the Ndoki region of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas.

Baïs have a busy social scene

It isn’t just elephants that congregate at the baïs. These watering holes have a bustling social scene.

Gibbon describes the flocks of African green pigeons (Treron calvus) that gather at Capitale at dawn and dusk; buffalo and several bird species that visit during daylight hours; and the hyenas that can be heard calling after dark as the elephants mine for salt.

Wildlife refuges like these in the Congo Basin are also home to the critically endangered western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), two unusual forest and swamp-dwelling antelope — the bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) and sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) — as well as central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes), bonobos (Pan pansicus), and the endangered gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus).

The forests of Gabon, southern Cameroon and southern Central African Republic also have a high number of baïs, and the findings from these studies could eventually be extrapolated to give an idea of the implications for the Congo Basin more widely.

“The area that baïs’ cover is tiny, but they sustain the elephant population,” Davies says. “If our hypothesis is correct, without the baïs you’d have no elephants; without elephants there’s be no big trees with high carbon density, so carbon storage would go down.”

If the forest loses the baïs, it could lose more than just the elephants or see a change in its carbon-capturing treescape. The baïs would no longer draw the many other animals that thrive in these mineral-dense watering holes, and the tourists and environmental researchers drawn to them too.

Citation:

Berzaghi, F., Longo, M., Ciais, P., Blake, S., Bretagnolle, F., Vieira, S., … Doughty, C. E. (2019). Carbon stocks in central African forests enhanced by elephant disturbance. Nature Geoscience, 12(9), 725-729. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0395-6

Banner image: Elephants dig for salt-rich mud in the Dzanga baï in the Sangha Rainforest in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy Jan Teede.

This story was written by Leonie Joubert and originally published by Mongabay on August 15, 2023 and was republished under a Creative Commons licence.

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#african #africanForestElephantLoxodontaCyclotis #amazingAnimals #animalBehaviour #animalCommunication #animalIntelligence #bantrophyhunting #bevegan #biodiversity #boycottPalmOil #boycott4wildlife #boycottpalmoil #carbon #climatechange #congo #deforestation #democracticRepublicOfCongo #drc #elephant #elephants #forgottenAnimals #mammal #pachyderm #pachyderms #palmOil #palmOilDeforestation #theDemocraticRepublicOfCongo #vegan

Sultan Muhammed Adil Shah of #Bijapur #Deccan with his #African Prime Minister Ikhlas Khan

Ikhlas was from #Ethiopia #Africa who came to #India in c1600 CE
Many of the immigrants who came from there rose to important positions in the courts of various courts of the #Indian Kingdoms.

This c1660 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting is now at Los Angeles County #Museum of #Art

#LACMA #IndianHistory #IndianHertitage #Artist #Histodons #History #Paintings #Museums #MastoArt #Heritage #Painting

🚀 Christoph's first dispatch from #Kigali unveils our transformative approach to #African transport with real-time data!

https://tinyurl.com/27hcxa9h

#informaltransport #populartransport #opendata #opensource #publictransport #sustainabletransport #Africa #Ghana #Accra #Africa #Rwanda #Kigali #KigaliMobilityLab #AfricanCities #ict4d #MaaS #MobilityAsAService #publictransit

Filmankündigung: Ich Capitano

https://europa.blog/de/filmankuendigung-ich-capitano/

#Migration #Eu #Afrika #african #sengal

📆 February 16, 2024 Elected members of the #African #SpaceCouncil (based on the statutes of the African 🌍 #SpaceAgency)

• Dr Tidiane Ouattara (#CoteDIvoire 🇨🇮)
• Dr Rakiya Babamaaji (#Nigeria 🇳🇬)
• Thandikile Chisala Mbvundula (#Malawi 🇲🇼)
• Dr Lisho Mundia (#Namibia 🇳🇦)
• Amal Layachi (#Morocco 🇲🇦)
• Aboubaker Hassan Ali (#Djibouti 🇩🇯)
• Dr Éliane Ubalijoro (#Rwanda 🇷🇼)
• Amin Mestar (#Algeria 🇩🇿)

https://africanews.space/meet-the-elected-members-of-the-african-space-council/

#SpaceIndustry #SpacePolitics

Beauty animated gif afrosnowman's :-)

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Support my images yours likes here! :-)
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Thank and have a nice day for you! :-)

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"A #life of unending #fear': The #struggle of #African #LGBTQ #refugees

#Uganda, #Somalia, #Tanzania, #Ethiopia, and South #Sudan impose #harsh #antiLGBTQ #laws, punishing #homosexuality with the #deathpenalty, #lifeimprisonment, or long #jail terms."

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://www.ncronline.org/news/life-constant-fear-plight-african-lgbtq-refugees

The “#Lily of the Nile” (#Agapanthus) is native to Africa, just not anywhere near the Nile basin.
Also called the #African Lily, the #plant sends up a #flower head with a bunch of #blue #flowers.
#LilyOfTheNile, #AfricanLily, #AgapantusPraecox, #FlowersOfMastodon, #FlowerPhotography, #Photography, #Photo
Buy a print or merchandise: https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/lily-of-the-nile-flower-head-macro-heron-and-fox.html

An outstanding c1645 AD #Deccani #IndianMiniaturePainting with #Mughal influence of Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah of #Bijapur #Deccan #India & his #African Prime Minister Ikhlas Khan

This #Painting from Howard Hodgkin collection now at Ashmolean Museum #UnitedKingdom is as much a Portrait of a Prized Royal #Elephant as of its Distinguished Riders.

#AfricansInIndia #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #IndianMiniaturePaintings #DeccaniSchool of #Art
#History #Heritage #Animals #IndianCulture