We haven’t heard from you since the heightened spate of repression which disproportionately targets the young & vulnerable of the motherland.
As you celebrated Africa Youth Day on 11/1 & touted the youth charter, young people were being targeted in Uganda & Nigeria @_AfricanUnion
This wasn’t the Africa Pixley Ka Isaka Seme envisioned on that glorious 1906 day in his speech “The Regeneration of Africa”.
This wasn’t the Africa Selassie, Olympio, Nkrumah etc, spoke of in 1963.
How is vision 2063 to be achieved if there’s no one left to live it?@_AfricanUnion
Everyday there’s sad news from the continent and your silence is loud, @_AfricanUnion .
We need a sincerely unifying & active aegis, and not one that is blighted in diplomatic camaraderie and riddled with more platitudes & webinars than action.
People are still being killed, detained, enslaved, trafficked;our lady folk are being mutilated & tormented in some parts.
Civil war looms in Ethiopia
You have let your mission be gagged to the extent you’d watch blood saturate our soil.
You have failed @_AfricanUnion
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In 1692, Queen Nzinga of Ndongo went to Luanda to negotiate with the Portuguese on the royal family’s behalf.
The Portuguese, who was seated, expected her to sit on the floor. Affronted by this, she commanded one of her male attendants to go on all fours & she sat on him instead.
This was when European women were still banished to the kitchen and not allowed to speak in the presence of men.
African women have always had pride of place in our societies. Resilient, powerful and many times wielded more power than their male counterparts.
After Nzinga died, the Congo people once again disintegrated into a panoply of warring factions, with the Portuguese playing them against each other.
Then arose another noble woman, Kimpa Vita. She had her own Christian movement and was regarded as a prophetess by her followers.
Okay, this has nothing to do with the Ghana vs Naija beef or who’s Jollof Cardi preferred or Sowore but I promise it’s just as crucial.
FACT: Israel is the only country in the world that prohibits organ transplant from China..
Why? Okay, I’d explain with a short true story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
A while back, an Israeli surgeon had a heart disease patient in need of a heart transplant. On one of their consults, the patient boasted that he’d be getting a transplant in a month.
Now, anyone in the medical circle knows this isn’t how transplants work.
Usually, if you’re on the transplant list and it’s your turn (or you’re on priority) you’re notified as soon as the organ is available which sometimes is as short as 12 hours and you’re required to be on the table within that time, mostly because organs are not..