One of my absolute favorite writers . Every Munro story is a triumph of language and imagination RIP

Good morning from Soro and Roume Islands, Guinea 🇬🇳

🎥 @yussuf__k

The conversation around mental health should be on how to make it affordable and dignified. Many insurance plans offer limited mental health benefits compared to physical health although strides are being made it’s still inaccessible to most.

Mental health is journey, not a

Des femmes Swahilis de Zanzibar, une photographie de 1893.

Senegal buys back library of more than 300 books of poet-president Léopold Senghor from France. Senghor was the first president of independent Senegal, and was one of the founders of the Négritude black consciousness movement 1/2
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Just after a single season of Wheat cultivation, Burkinabe Faso has been able to cancel wheat imports from overseas and its farmers are thriving.

I hope Africa will take note, we need to support our local farmers, and give them a reason to get up from bed and go to the farm.

street scene in Gao, Mali, ca. 1935

The city’s population was linguistically diverse, including speakers of the languages of Songhay, Fula, and Tamashek

languages are neither the sole indicators of culture nor the only determinant of social interactions
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A Congolese girl narrates what is happening in Congo

Why are people not concerned about Congo as they are for Ukraine, Russia, Israel and Palestine

c.1922-1929 - Tidikelt Woman , Algeria

Photographed by Henri Lhote

Dans le nord du Cameroun, un exemple.

Today's reflection:

1. The source of 90% of problems bedeveling Africa are not from Africa but the solutions can only come from Africa.

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Dear African Union , stir yourselves from your stupor, for the sake of all that is meaningful and decent, bestir yourselves. Unzombify yourselves for just one day. These are our own, the future, the babies. Ours. Bestir your selves, you...<let me be polite>...

Captain Ibrahim Traore the president of Africa's Burkina Faso, reduced all Ministers and politicians salaries by 20 percent.
He refused to accept a President's salary and maintain his salary as a military captain. His salary as a soldier and not a president.

The mighty, timeless Congo River flows past DRC's capital Kinshasa, its towers made dreamlike behind a haze of river mist. The current carries along two boys in the type of dugout that has made this journey for a thousand years.

A deep sigh filled with hope and envy at the same time. I wish....

Colonization via patents

From seeds to traditional knowledge, corporations like Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, and Dupont are patenting biodiversity.

Who protects the rights of local communities against this theft when governments cozy up to the big money through policy?

#Saturdayread

if you’re in kisumu today, head over to Lolwe Books KE for these two amazing events! you don’t want to miss this!

retinue of a noble in the kingdom of Bida

ca. 1894-1908, Nigeria
-British Museum

#ethnographxt

Meanwhile, the team of 10 Sherpas from Seven Summit Treks has, today, successfully fixed the ropes up to the summit (8848.86m). The route up to the summit is now open to all climbers.
Climbers can now plan on their summit bids in the coming weeks.
We are closely following our