(1/15)Some people think that the West is the birthplace of LGBT acceptance. African politicians and clergy will very often say that queerness is un-African.Actually the OPPOSITE is more accurate and I'll show you why being black means originating from queer cultures: #PrideMonth
(2/15) Ancient Africa has examples such as Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep's gay burial or the Book of Dreams' (1200BCE) writings on sex between women. And why would a woman on a Book of the Dead clarify “I never had sex with a woman in the temple.”?
Nov 28, 2019 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
(1/16)Africa never developed writing! What a colonialist lie. Of course its griot-bards and their oral epics are magnificent but it has developed several writing systems too - Africa is rich in both🖤I will list a few of them. The first one is well known, Egyptian Hieroglyphs:
(2/16)The Meroitic Alphabet(Sudan): This system represents syllables rather than single letters and it was developed for the language of the powerful Kingdom Of Kush when they decided to stop using Egyptian Hieroglyphs for their own language.