made in Africa by africans
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artwork winner: , Kenya

The sombre face with colour represents psychological & physiological differences all in one being. “For Africans & non-Africans alike the message is that we have other ways of expression apart from blood & tears from violence.”

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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

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A woman is the full circle. With her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
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Artist: Loraine Yafee
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Greeks visited Egypt as students to learn from Africans.

Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years.

Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Egypt for 22 years.

Thales, the first Greek philosopher studied in Egypt.

Hippocrates studied Medicine in Egypt for 7 years.

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April 12, 1787: Richard Allen organized the Free African Society, a beneficial and moral reform society among free blacks.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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Africans also made a wide array of metallic items for (house, business, war, farming, construction, grooming etc). They made mirrors, knives, swords, spoons, razors, tweezers, shears, cutters, metallic weights, pins, pincers, scoops, needles, combs, scissors, vases, tongs etc.

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$20 Experimental digital headshot boost. 4 slots. PayPal. (South Africans can EFT).

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Bugged me too. He's indirectly shitting on all back male actors. Like we can never get a better performance? That's insane. Especially when you consider the African talent that hasn't been considered and the 1st gen Africans in the MCU that would have crushed this role.

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Africans didn't give up their land to the colonialists without a fight.

Check out these 19th century UK newspaper reports (1838 - Zulus, Ghana) (1892 - Zanzibar, Dahomey—now in Benin Republic).

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MAMAN BRIGITTE:
The vice-indulgent Vodou Lwa of death whose characteristics are said to come from New Orleans' Irish prostitutes who showed solidarity with enslaved Africans

About whom you can find out more in my book "Morbid Magic" vía

https://t.co/WdOVfkLQY6

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Hi I’m thrilled I got to illustrate some of the most inspiring Africans for the new NATIVE feature story.
https://t.co/yzWZIJNHtQ

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Celebrate Black History Month with the Sisterhood: A million Africans who were brought to America during the trans-Atlantic slave trade were Muslim, and today over 25 percent of US Muslims are black. Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm! https://t.co/vDyLfu8Xth

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