Looks like West African countries went to the same Tailor to get their flags done. Can't blame the Tailor.
Ghana must have arrived first and given a black star patched in Yellow, Green and Red.
Then came Senegal: You see what you gave Ghana, yes, vertical of her. Give it to me quickly.
Tailor : Star as well?
Senegal: Yes please Make it green though.
Tailor: Who is next?
Mali: It's Me. Fram the Land of Mansa Musa. Richest man to ever walk on planet earth.
Tailor: OK Rich boy, how do you want yours?
Mali:Just remove the star from Ghana and give Me what you are left with
Tailor: Aah! You are not only rich, you are Lazy too!
Tailor: Don't tell me you want a star, I am out of star design.
Cameroon: Not so fast, Tailor. Nobody has a monopoly over stars. Ever heard of Yellow star on red?
Tailor: I swear you have taken the last star.
Tailor: Yooh Benin. How can I help you? Wait are you even a full country? Aren't you part of Nigeria?
Benin: Oh so now you have graduated from Tailor to UN you are now deciding who is a country and who is not? I don't need star if that is what you think. Nkt
Tailor: Burkina Faso, Please tell me you're different from all these guys.
Burkina Faso: Quite. We are proudly different. So just give us red and green. No Yellow.
Tailor: Sure?
Burkina Faso: Quite. But if you have any Yellow remaining you can give us a dash of it on a star.
Tailor: Mauritania please here's your yellow star, green and red and go!
Mauritania: Please add the moon. Full galaxy please. We're not an ordinary country.
Tailor: Niger Niger Niger. How may I help you?
Niger: Make me look different please. As foreign as possible
Tailor: Say no more. No star
Niger: But this is Indian flag.
Tailor: You said you wanted to look foreign
Niger: Yes foreign, but India?
Tailor: Get out of here.
Tailor: what's your name?
Ivory Coast
Tailor: wait, your other name?
Ivory: Cote D'Ivoire
Tailor: Do I have any designs for such a name?
Ivory: Never mind. See what you gave Niger? Vertical of that
Tailor: No star?
Ivory: No, I'm good. Just remove that Indian dot at the center.
Tailor: Who are you?
GB: Guinea Bissau
Tailor: Haven't I served a Guinea already?
GB: Yes. But I'm Bissau
Tailor: What's your capital?
GB: Bissau
Tailor: what?
GB: Bissau. Anyway, don't overthink. Give us exactly what you gave Togo. We have other priorities as a nation not flags
Tailor: who be you?
Guinea: Guinea Conakry
Tailor: Real name?
Guinea: No, I'm Guinea but I add Conakry my capital just so I'm distinguished from Bissau and Equatorial
Tailor: Ha! So what design for you?
Guinea: Remember Mali's? Just swap the green and red. Don't overthink
Tailor: Yooo Togo, come for your flag. Where have you been?
Togo: Been fighting with Benin all along over which country is bigger
Tailor: OK now go!
Tailor: You should be the last
STP: Yes. Sao Tome & Principe
Tailor: OK who am I talking to? Sao Tome or Principe?
STP: One country. We'd fancy green, yellow and a dash of red triangle
Tailor: A star?
STP: 2 stars plz
Tailor: Two stars? Oh one for Sao Tome the other for Principe?
The tragic exploitation of an African woman, Sara Baartman #Thread
Sara's life was of hardship. She was born in 1789 in the Camdeboo valley in the eastern part of the Cape Colony in South Africa. It is commonly thought she was born in the Gamtoos valley, but she moved there with her family only years after her birth.
her mother died when she was two and her father, a cattle driver, died when she was an adolescent. She got into domestic service in Cape Town after a Dutch colonist murdered her partner, with whom she had had a baby who died.
Ruby Bridges, born September 8 1954. Sixty one years ago, at only 6 years old, she was the first Black child to desegregate the all white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 November 1960.
Ruby Bridges is only 67 years old. The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school are now upset that their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.
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African King, Mansa Abubakar II discovered Americas in 1312. 180 years before Columbus
The Italian sailor / explorer Christopher Columbus has a renowned reputation as the discoverer of the new world in every simple history lesson. This has been globally recognized for over 500 years to date. Education has been in the possession of Europeans
who many believe have imposed what has enriched them while scorning or changing what has not been done. As the waves of awareness begin to spread, several “European” expeditions have now seen their acclaimed achievements with doubt.
Sengbe Pieh (1814 – 1879), was a West African man of the Mende people of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 who led a revolt of many enslaved Africans on the Spanish 🇪🇸 slave ship La Amistad. Pieh freed himself and others from their shackles. They killed the captain, cook, and two other...
crew members. After the ship was taken into custody by the United States 🇺🇸 Revenue Cutter Service, Sengbe Pieh and his fellow Africans were eventually tried for mutiny and killing of officers on the ship, in a case known as United States v. The Amistad.
This case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where Sengbe Pieh and his fellow Africans were found to have rightfully defended themselves from being enslaved through the illegal Atlantic slave trade and were released.
George McLaurin, the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma in 1948, was forced to sit in a corner far from his white classmates. But his name remains on the honor roll as one of the three best students of the university. These are his words:
"Some colleagues would look at me like I was an animal, no one would give me a word, the teachers seemed like they were not even there for me, nor did they always take my questions when I asked.
But I devoted myself so much that afterward, they began to look for me to give them explanations and to clear their questions."