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19 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A vulture waits for a starving boy to die, so it could eat him, Sudan, 1993.

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The South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter who took this photograph won a Pulitzer Prize for his image.
However, the darkness of that bright day never lifted from him and he committed suicide a year later in July 1994, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain.”
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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
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The Ethiopian bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth. #Thread

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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.
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18 Jun
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.
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Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions
picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind
braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees...
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