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The direction of colonial policy was determined by the overseas ministry, aided by the advisory overseas council
and two subsidiary agencies.
The governor-general appointed the chief official resident for the colony. The chief official of the resident for the colony had far reaching executive and legislative power. He headed the colonial bureaucracy, directed the native authority system,
Thus, in the 1920s, the policy was changed to the policy of association, which was advocated as the most appropriate for French Africa.
On paper, association reorganized the society supposedly to achieve maximum benefit for both the French and the West African.
In practice however, scholars have argued that this policy was like the association of a horse and its rider,
Indirect Rule saw to the mapping out of relatively large areas which were subject to single authority:
Smaller ethnic groups were included in the jurisdiction of their larger, more highly organized neighbors.
And district heads, especially in Igbo and Ibibiolands, Nigeria, were appointed to defined areas without much consideration
Soon a struggle between the Anna Pepple House and Manilla Pepple House led to the outbreak of civil war in Bonny in 1869.
The war resulted in King Jaja’s migration and founding of the inland kingdom of Opobo which lay in the palm oil producing hinterland.
Jaja was an avowed nationalist and determined to control the trade in his political domain.
The European scramble for Africa culminated in the Berlin West African Conference of 1884-85.
The conference was called by German Chancellor Bismarck and would set up the parameters for the eventual partition of Africa.
European nations were summoned to discuss issues of free navigation along the Niger and Congo rivers and to settle new claims to African coasts.
Haiti holds many records: the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and the first nation of former slaves, for example.
Another is the highest per-capita rate of NGOs than any other nation.
Haiti is desperately poor and has horrible health statistics, so in some ways it makes sense that many non-Haitians, especially Americans given its proximity, work in NGOs in the country.
Over the past two hundred years, the United States has played a important role in the economic and political activity of Haiti, its close neighbor to the south.
The United States’ refusal to recognize Haiti as a country for sixty years, trade policies, military occupations, and role in Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s removal from Haiti are little known by Americans, but significant for the development, or rather, lack of development in Haiti.
Dec 30, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
In 1825, Haiti Paid France $21 Billion To Preserve Its Independence -- Time For France To Pay It Back forbes.com/sites/realspin…
Dan Sperling
Dec 6, 2017
The devastation wreaked on Haiti by Hurricane Matthew last fall was just the latest in a seemingly endless string of misfortunes
that have befallen that country, which in March concluded a year-long interlude of caretaker governance by installing banana exporter Jovenel Moïse as its 58th president.
Moïse faces a daunting task; Haiti’s chronic status as the Western hemisphere’s poorest nation
Dec 28, 2020 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
AT&T outage: Internet, 911 disrupted, planes grounded after Nashville explosion. Get the latest updates tennessean.com/story/news/loc…
Mariah Timms
Nashville Tennessean
Widespread 911 issues in the Nashville area were reported after AT&T wireless and internet service were disrupted on
Friday hours following a massive explosion downtown.
AT&T internet and phone service were disrupted in the area about 12 p.m. Friday. The outages continued into the evening.
Users around the country reported disruptions in service,
Dec 28, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Louisville AT&T phone services disrupted by damage from Nashville explosion wdrb.com/news/damage-fr…
Dec 26, 2020 Updated 22 hrs ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Officials at AT&T say damage from a bombing that took place in Nashville on Christmas Day
is causing disruptions to some communications services in Louisville.
"I can confirm services in Louisville have been disrupted by the bombing yesterday in Nashville," wrote Jim Kimberly, director of corporate communications for AT&T Global Media Relations,
Nov 29, 2020 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Will Israel Support Yemen’s UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council? insidearabia.com/will-israel-su…
by Jonathan Fenton-Harvey
Sep 1, 2020
As the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council struggles to achieve southern independence in Yemen, Abu Dhabi bolsters its ties with Israel.
Could this trigger Emirati-Israeli cooperation over Yemen?
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its Yemeni proxy, the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), have faced obstacles in their mutual ambition of wrecking Yemen’s fragile unity
Oct 15, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
The UAE in Yemen: From Surge to Recalibration lawfareblog.com/uae-yemen-surg…
By Thomas Juneau Sunday,
October 11, 2020
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Recalibrating, 2019 and After
By 2019, the UAE had come to believe that the costs of its involvement in Yemen outweighed the benefits,
and that this negative cost-benefit ratio might worsen in the future. It therefore announced in June 2019 a partial withdrawal of its forces from Yemen.
It has, however, maintained a presence in the south, focused mostly on counterterrorism,
Editor’s Note: Despite its small size, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as one of the most important players in the Middle East. It has done so by shrewdly
strengthening its alliances with the United States and Saudi Arabia while intervening militarily and financially throughout the region.
Thomas Juneau of the University of Ottawa explains the logic of the UAE’s emergence as a major player,
Oct 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Biggest World War Two bomb found in Poland explodes while being defused dianomi.com/click.epl?url_…
OCTOBER 13, 2020
WARSAW (Reuters) - The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.
More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 5,400 kg, including 2,400 kg of explosive.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday it has reached no firm conclusion about what caused the Aug. 4 explosion in the port of Beirut
that killed nearly 200 people and caused billions of dollars in damage.
Other U.S. and European government agencies closely following the investigations into the explosion strongly believe that the blast was accidental.
Oct 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Woman Gods They Don’t Want You to Know About tajimag.com/woman-gods/
Chela Noldon
July 16, 2017
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Yemayah – (Yemaja, Yemoja) She is one of the great goddesses of the Nigerian Yoruba.
In Cuba she is known as Yemaya (Yemaya Ataramagwa, wealthy queen of the sea;
Yemaya Achabba, the stern goddess; Yemaya Oqqutte, the violent goddess; or Yemaya Olokun, the dream goddess). She is known as Agwe in Haiti.
She is also referred to as Yamoja, which is a contraction of the the sentence “Iyamo eja”, meaning “our mother”
Oct 14, 2020 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Woman Gods They Don’t Want You to Know About tajimag.com/woman-gods/
Chela Noldon
July 16, 2017
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Nana Buluku – (Nana, Nan Nan, Nana Baruku, Na Na Baraclou, Boucalou) As Nana Buluku she is the primordial creator goddess of the Fon Nation of Benin (Dahomey).
As Nana Buruku she is first Grandmother to all the Divinities and first human woman in the religion of the Yorubas.
It was of Nana that the Cosmic Twins Mawu and Lisa were born. From Mawu and Lisa came the Cosmic Egg, and the Cosmic Seed that germinated the Egg.
Oct 14, 2020 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Woman Gods They Don’t Want You to Know About tajimag.com/woman-gods/
Chela Noldon
July 16, 2017
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Hyrax -The wife of the creator god I Kaggen (praying mantis) revered by men of the western bush.
Ilankaka – The sun goddess of the Nkundo of Zaire was trapped by a man who was hunting during the night.
She begged to be released and promised him much wealth for doing so, but the only wealth he wanted was her, so she agreed to marry him.
Oct 14, 2020 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
Woman Gods They Don’t Want You to Know About tajimag.com/woman-gods/
Chela Noldon
July 16, 2017
They do not mind telling you of Santa and the Easter Bunny and Kwanzaa…
The fables of angry and jealous gods.
They erased all of our power from the books.
This is a list of Woman Gods that I have been compiling. It is BIZARRE how many names are on this list that are never mentioned as a source of POWER, Relief or Hope in our day to day musings.
Why are women whores or helpers or the failure of man in the Bible?
Oct 14, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Australian Aborigine Creation Myth
There was a time when everything was still.
All the spirits of the earth were asleep - or almost all. The great Father of All Spirits was the only one awake. Gently he awoke the Sun Mother.
As she opened her eyes a warm ray of light spread out towards the sleeping earth.
The Father of All Spirits said to the Sun Mother,
"Mother, I have work for you.
Go down to the Earth and awake the sleeping spirits. Give them forms."