The Myth “Africa had no writing” is a persistent as it is entirely false. Africa had knowledge of the written word before Europe.

Above, and under the Sahara different scripts were used. Africans made great advances in the arts & sciences.
A THREAD🧵…

Writing was independently invented in Africa centuries before the written word would be introduced to Europe.
In fact Europe needed to be reintroduced writing 3 different times! No other continent managed to gain and forget so much knowledge. The west uses Phoenician letters.

Early Liberia’s biggest political conflict was not between Settlers and indigenous people but between the liberal elitist Republican Party against the Populist True Whig Party.

The power struggle between them would turn Liberia into a one party state.
#Liberia 🇱🇷 #History a🧵…

Contrary to popular belief “Americo”Liberians never really saw themselves as one ethnic group.

They where actually just groups of repatriated families coming from all over America and Barbados.

Individual family ties and status where far more important than ethnicity.

The Battle of Trade Town was on April 9th 1826.

The first Liberian pilgrims aided by their Native Allies, an American ship and a Colombian ship attacked a Spanish-French Slave Factory.

The Liberians saw wiping out slavery as their god given duty.

A Thread🧵…
#Liberia #History





When the first Liberian settlers went back to Africa they where embraced by the indigenous locals, there was just one major issue, the
Slave Trade was still active.

France and Spain had coastal slave factories enslaving many Africans. The forts all needed to be destroyed.

Black Americans aren’t indigenous to America and that’s ok!

African Americans are being bombarded with false propaganda like #SecureTheTribe claiming they’re the real Indians and they’re not Africans.

These claims are easily proven false but let’s look deeper into this. A🧵…





The Acronyms cults believe that is a disconnect from Africa they will be fully embraced into American Whiteness and get reparations.

SecureTheTribe inccorectly believes Native Americans got reparations(they’re stupid). So by claiming indigenatiy the government will cut checks.

Gatumba was a powerful Gola Chief who went to war with the Liberians in 1840.
They fought over one issue, slavery.

Dei captives held by Gatumba escaped him and ran to the new Liberian town of Millsburg.
Gatumba attacked the town to get his slaves back...
#Liberia #History a🧵…

Millsburg was a small town on the St. Paul river a few miles away from Monrovia.
The Americo Liberians and Dei fortified the town, but Chief Gatumba was able to surround the town and attack.
The Gola warriors killed the defenders and sacked the town capturing many captives.

The Organization of African Unity(OAU) was founded in May 1963.

The OAU was the precursor to the African Union. It’s Aim was to eradicate all forms of colonialism on the continent and integrate Africa politically and economically.

#Africa #History a THREAD 🧵…

It was 75 years after the Berlin Conference and most African countries gained their freedom and got independence.

Portugal 🇵🇹 still stubbornly held onto its colonize.
Southern Africa, and Rhodesia where still ruled by White apartheid governments.

This post will compare the histories of Europe Asia and Africa.🌏🌍

Many say African history doesn’t hold up to Asia and Europe, let’s find out…

A THREAD 🧵:



The categories we will look at will be achievements in Government, Culture, Economics, Science, Art, Exploration, and Warfare.

All these things are what makeup a civilization historically and today.

Well go in chronological order and compare each continent fairly…

Vai ꕙꔤ Script was invented and perfected by Momulu Duwalu in 1830 but characters are said to have existed long before that.

Since then Vai script has inspired different groups of Africans in #Liberia 🇱🇷 and overseas to invent their own scripts for their languages.

A THREAD🧵 Vai is written like hieroglyphs. The Scripts letters indicate sound and meaning.
For instance ꕀ (Ji) means water and the pictograph is shaped like a wave.
Another example is ꕒ (ba) meaning mother.
The bump on the letter ꕒ is supposed to look like a mothers baby bump🤰🏿.

Mansa Musa was NOT a white man!! 😂💀
Right wingers are circulating a video white washing the history of the Mali Empire, made by fraud grifter and #snowtep ❄️ @robertsepehr.

This thread will breakdown and debunk this stupid video.
The video begins by asserting Mansa Musa was a white beber and the ruling class of the Mali empire where all white moors.

This issue is Musa and the Keita dynasty where not moors at all they where black Mandinka(Mande).

Berbers in Mali aren’t white either but that’s irrelevant.

William Tubman was one of the greatest Presidents in Liberian #history.
He brought economic prosperity to #Liberia 🇱🇷, expanded rights for indigenous people in the interior and helped guide Africas decolonization.
He put Liberia in a great place on the world stage.

A THREAD🧵 Tubman grew up in Cape Palmas in the South of Liberia away from the Capital.
He had a humble background and came from a lower middle class Congo (“Americo Liberian”)family.
He started as a clerk and worked up the ladder.
He was elected as the youngest Liberian Senator ever at 28.

The Anglo-Vai war began this month in May 1883, 140 years ago.

The Vai people of the Gallinas in modern day #SierraLeone 🇸🇱and #Liberia 🇱🇷 fought the #British Empire 🇬🇧.
Manja Gbili led a Guerrilla war against the odds resisting the British imperial army.

A #history thread🧵… The British excuse for attacking the Vai and take their territory was to wipe out the slave trade in the area.
The issue is the Vai hadn’t participated in the Slave trade for decades.

The British just wanted to take control of the local trade in palm oil and salt and steal land.

On November 12 1985 President Doe was nearly overthrown.

Ex ally General Quiwonkpa attempted a coup to end Doe’s tyrannical rule over #Liberia 🇱🇷.

Liberian #history would’ve changed if not for soldiers from #Israel 🇮🇱 who came to aid of Doe.

These events led to civil war. After the 1980 Coup the “People’s Redemption Council” governed Liberia.
They invited members of the former opposition, the Progressive Alliance to help govern the Country.

They would end up leaving the government when it was clear the PRC was just a bunch of corrupt thieves.

Sarah Ann Bourne is known as the godmother of #Barbados 🇧🇧 people in #Liberia 🇱🇷.
In 1865 she organized a migration of 40 Barbadian families back to Africa.
Sarah founded the town of Crozerville in Liberia.
She also is the mom of President Arthur Barclay
A Thread🧵…
#History Sarah Ann Bourne was born a free woman of Color in Barbados 🇧🇧 🇬🇧 in 1795.
She was born to a black mother, London Bourne, a founder of the Caribbean back to Africa movement.
Despite being a free woman she was treated as inferior to any European in Barbados.

The 1980 coup in #Liberia 🇱🇷 altered the course of the country’s #history. The Coup was supposedly led by illiterate Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe.

He didn’t really plan the coup against President Tolbert however, he served greater #CIA 🇺🇸 interest.

A Thread🧵… Liberia in the late 70s was going through turbulent times. Long standing issues such as the price of food, wealth inequality and political freedom where present.
Former President William Tubman was able to keep everything stable, but the current President Tolbert wasn’t as adept.

Today we'll compare the States of #Liberia 🇱🇷and #Israel 🇮🇱
It's said that both of these countries are settler colonies and apartheid states.
Others say they are peaceful democratic societies.
Maybe one is and the other isn't?
Let's compare and see..👀
#AfricanHistory a Thread 🧵 We will begin with comparing these two countries starts and foundings.
To escape persecution in Europe early Zionist wanted a Jewish state in Palestine and offered to buy it from the Ottoman Caliph but they where rejected.
Zionist began illegally migrating to Palestine anyways...

Stop 🛑 praising Gaddafi
Gaddafi helped train Charles Taylor in #Libya 🇱🇾 while he was already a known fugitive and wanted by #Liberia 🇱🇷 and Foday Sankoh.
Gaddafis ideas of Arab nationalism and revolution would ruin the lives of countless Africans.
#Africanhistory a Thread🧵… After mysteriously being released prison from the United States enroute to Liberia Charles Taylor went to Libya where he received training in warfare along with Foday Sankoh, the founder of the notorious RUF rebel group of Sierra Leone.

In 1520 an exiled warrior princess👸🏿 from the collapsing Mali empire invaded what is now #SierraLeone 🇸🇱 and #Liberia 🇱🇷.
Her invasion would change the history of the Windward coast.💨
🏝️
A THREAD🧵…
#AfricanHistory After offending the king(some say after rejecting his advances) Princess Magbete was banished from the Mansas capital city.

The Princess left with many followers to forge a new kingdom for herself.
She led a migration that would be the beginning and the end for many tribes…

People often say Africans didnt care about their own people across the Atlantic.
Kongo kingdom went to war with the Portuguese Empire 🇵🇹 defeating them at the Battle of Mbabda Kasi forcing the Portuguese too return thousands of enslaved Kongo citizens
#Africa #Angola #History a🧵 In the 1620s The Portuguese empire wanted to expand their rule and their slave trade in the Congo region.
Wishing too take out the kingdoms of Ndongo and Kongo, the Portuguese allied with a local cannibal militaristic cult known as the Imbangala in a pact to defeat and enslave…

Did you know their was a short lived country in Africa called Maryland they was totally independent?

#Liberia 🇱🇷 #Maryland #History a thread 🧵… In the 1850s a society called the Maryland colonization society wanted to repatriate its enslaved black population back too west Africa
As the freedmen made it too the windward coast and formed their own settlement they grew tired of the Maryland society and declared Independence

The Vai people of Liberia have a legendary story of where they came from.

The tribes original founders where princes from the Mali empire sent on a mission too go south too the coast of what’s now Liberia.

#Liberia #SierraLeone #History a thread🧵🇱🇷🇸🇱… The story begins when a lord named Jomani Kamara, a great grandson of Sunjata Keitas generals, sends some of his hunters south in search of salt.

A year later one of the hunters returns to the king and says he found a paradise by the shore with salt, amazing animals and lush…

Liberia 🇱🇷 History a🧵:

Many people see Liberia as an extension of US/White imperialism…

Little do people know Liberia tried to prevent the Colonization of West Africa.

Samori Ture the King of the Wassoulou Empire resisted The French Empire 🇫🇷 with Guns supplied by Liberia… France interest in west Africa had always been a thorn in the side of the Liberian government.

After the Berlin Conference of 1884 all of Africa was to be divided up by the European powers including West Africa.
Samori Ture was smart enough to build a powerful state…