The last hour of the late, great Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Dem. Rep. of Congo, before he was killed in 1961.

He was tied to a tree, shot by a firing squad, buried, exhumed, reburied again, exhumed, hacked into pieces then dissolved in sulphuric acid.

The details The man who dissolved Patrice Lumumba in sulphuric acid, Belgian Police Commissioner Gerard Soete, confirmed that he did the act to AFP on 15th May, 2002.

He even kept relics or souvenir, two of Lumumba's teeth, fingers, bullets lodged in his body.

Haiti's poverty did not come by chance.

Aside from being forced to pay today's est. of $21 billion to France upon her independence as a black republic, from 1915-1934 US Marines occupied Haiti, killing opposition, forcing laws—even ran her finances.

15,000 Haitians were killed. You want to know why Haiti, a nation of over 97% descendants of Africa is now a metaphor for poverty and disaster?

Read this.

(Excerpts from the Guardian UK)

A rare clip of Teboho "Tsietsi" Macdonald Mashinini, the Student Leader of the 1976 Soweto Uprising.

The apartheid government imposed Afrikaans as a compulsory teaching language in native African schools. Irate by that, est. 20000 students hit the streets, with hundreds killed. The life of Teboho "Tsietsi" Macdonald Mashinini, by The Sowetan.

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Le Monde: Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, is now in custody for receiving €50 million from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 campaign.

Sarkozy personally engineered the 2011 Libya invasion that killed Gaddafi.

Saif Al Islam, Gaddafi's son said this in 2011: Here is Muammar Gaddafi's personal interpreter, Moftah Missouri, confirm the funneling of funds to Nicolas Sarkozy for his campaign.. He was personally told by Gaddafi that at least $20million had been sent by Libya.

Also reported by the BBC

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1. A thread on Nigeria's first President, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe; unknown facts about his anti-colonial exploits that birthed independent Nigeria 2. A biography of Dr Azikiwe by 1946. Interestingly, he had to run away from home towards England thrice before allowed to attend Oxford.

1. [THREAD] Thomas Sankara's 1987 OAU speech on debt owed the West and its effect on us.

3 months later he was murdered in cold blood. 2. By the time Thomas Sankara was delivering this speech at Addis Ababa, this was how indebted Africa was. Look at the pictures carefully.