A father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904. The man’s name was Nsala. He had failed to make his daily rubber quota, so the Belgian-appointed overseers cut off his...
...daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali and she was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished; they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they ate both Boali and her mother...
...and presented Nsala with the tokens; the leftovers from the once-living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed.
Mansa Musa spent 200kg of gold to make Mali a centre of academic excellence by building Sankore University 700 years ago in Timbuktu. It had the capacity to contain 25,000 students, and had around 1 million manuscripts in its library, one of the largest in the world then.
Emperor Mansa Musa of Mali traveled to Mecca for Hajj with an entourage of 60,000 men. He took his whole court, his officials, solders, heralds, jesters, merchants, camel riders and 12,000 slaves, dressed in quality Persian silk, clad in golden brocade & carrying golden staffs.
Emperor Abu Bakr II of Mali sailed the Atlantic Ocean 100 years before Columbus. He went on 2 expeditions to find the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in the 14th Century. Mansa Musa came to power after he gave up the throne in 1311 to go on the 2nd expedition
Liberian President, Samuel Doe was the first world leader to be tortured on camera before being executed and his body desecrated on September 9, 1990.
In 1980, Samuel Kanyon Doe, a 28-year-old Master Sergeant, and his accomplices brutally murdered President William R. Tolbert Jr, ending 133 years of rule by Americo-Liberians.
Thirteen members of the Cabinet were publicly executed ten days later. Having discarded with Tolbert, Doe became Liberia’s first president of “exclusive indigenous heritage”.
A Nation is "A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory". This definition doesn't matter to the Imperialists resulting to the death of millions of Africans
1. Sudan Civil War
Modern Sudan was birthed on 1 January 1956. Prior to that, the occupying forces, Britain and Egypt, merged Northern Sudan and Southern Sudan in 1946. The South wasn’t a party to the discussions.
Both regions were very different in culture and religion, and were previously governed separately. Yet in 1953 Britain and Egypt agreed to grant the monolithic Sudan independence.
Many old West African families have private library collections dated back to the 8th Century A.D. There are 11,000 books in private collections in Niger Republic. Meanwhile in Timbuktu, Mali, there are about 700,000 surviving books.
Also in the Mauritanian cities of Chinguetti and Oudane have a total of 3,450 hand written mediaeval books and 6,000 books surviving in the other city of Walata.
Most scholars of Timbuktu knew a lot more than their counterparts in Europe. In the 15th century in Timbuktu the mathematicians knew about the rotation of the planets, knew about the details of the eclipse.
The Jesus Messiah myth was created by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine and the Council of Bishops in 325 AD. The Romans were an immoral society that engaged in mass orgies, wife swapping, incest, pedophilia, bestiality, death sports and slavery.
These facts totally disqualifies the Bible from being the true words of God. The Romans creating of Jesus messiah myth was actually an ingenious scam. Its ideology, that to enter the kingdom of heaven you had go through Jesus, gave the church immense power.
Because it meant that anyone that wanted to go to heaven had to do so through the church -- given that the church controls the Jesus image and narratives. It literally meant that they held and control the key to heaven. That's ultimate power on earth.
The Ethiopian bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth. #Thread
They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian Bible.
The Ethiopian bible dating analysis dated Garima 2 to be written around 390-570, and Garima 1 from 530-660. During the Italian invasion fire was set in the monastery in the 1930s to destroy the monastery’s church nevertheless the Bible survive.
The original Christianity of Egypt was established by the apostle Mark in AD 42 in Ethiopia (Coptic Church--Coptic Orthodox Christianity) where it spread to Europe and some part of Asia. Today We have been told Christianity came from Rome.