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Jul 4, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Did you know Cornrows were used to help slaves escape slavery?

A SHORT THREAD! Slaves used cornrows to transfer information and create maps to the north. Since slaves were not allowed to read or write they had to pass information through cornrows.

It is believed to have originated in Colombia, South America where Benkos Bioho, in the late 1500’s came
Jul 3, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
The Himba People Of Namibia!

In the Himba tribe of Namibia in Southern Africa, the date of birth of a child is fixed, not at the time of its arrival in the world, nor in its design, but much earlier; since the day the child is thought of in the mother's mind.

THREAD When a woman decides she's going to have a child, she settle down and rests under a tree, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child who wants to be born. And after she heard this child's song, she comes back to the man who will be the father of the child to teach