#africa rising

[afrokken]

Without respecting Africans and understanding the exploitation and abuse of Afirca, the USA has little chance of keeping any meaningful diplomatic ties not forced by military occupation (AFRICOM in the Sahel).

#africa rising #black excellence #africa summit #Youtube

[wondergirlmoliy]

#africa rising #apple music #favorite songs #spotify #soundcloud #afrobeats #afrofusion #music #moliy #wondergang #wondergirl #ghana girl #ghana #tidalmusic #tidal #afropunk

[jaynedolluk]

Saw Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch on BBC + I really recommend it. She visits 3 different countries - Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa - and meets a variety of creatives who are working in a range of mediums. Some are reinterpreting traditional crafts and others are moving into new fields. She covers everything from dance to skateboarding to film-making and art. I hope they do another series as I imagine there are so many other countries they could cover.

#africa rising #afua hirsch

[typicalbrainchaos]

Namibia rejects Germany’s support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against innocent civilians in Gaza.

Not only did Germany commit the first genocide of the 20th century in Namibia — but the savagery they executed on the Herero & Nama (ie starvation, concentration camps, torture) were the basis of the cruelties later used in the Holocaust.

An incredible statement from Namibia.

#gaza #free palestine #fucking hell #gazaunderattack #free gaza #gaza strip #palestine #save gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸 #idf #icj #south africa #nambia #africa #Africa is rising ❤️

[kaapstadgirly]

Tom Hurndall Hector Pieterson

January 13, 2004 June 16, 1976

Gaza Strip, Palestine Soweto, South Africa

I just saw the picture of Tom, and immediately, the picture of Hector came to my mind because of the striking resemblance.

Tom was killed by Israeli forces when he ran to protect two Palestinian children. He was shot in the head by an IDF soldier.

Hector was killed by the South African Police under the Apartheid system while he, along with 20 000± pupils, protested 'the language of the oppressor' (Afrikaans). Hector was one of an estimated 176 pupils killed during the Soweto uprising.

Remember them. Forever.

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #free west bank #israel #south africa #apartheid #soweto uprising #genocide #social justice #gaza strip #human rights #end israeli apartheid #long live the resistance #long live palestine #rise and resist

[queerafricans]

LGBTQ and Sudanese: Malab Alneel, Ahmed Umar, Savina Rise Mizrahi, Nxdia and Dua Saleh

#malab alneel #ahmed umar #savina rise mizrahi #nxdia #dua saleh #sudan #lgbtq in africa

[ancientorigins]

Homo naledi, a small-brained extinct hominin, has just been associated with complex ‘human’ behaviors like burying their dead and creating cave engravings. What does this mean for our understanding of human evolution?

#Homo naledi #Rising Star cave #South Africa #burials #hominin #brain size

[stairnaheireann]

Sir Roger Casement | The Man Hanged as a Traitor Who Took on the Devil

Roger Casement (1864-1916) was an Irish nationalist and British consular official, whose attempt to secure aid from Germany in the struggle for Irish independence led to his execution by the British for the crime of high treason. Born on 1 September, 1864, in Kingstown, to a Protestant father and Catholic mother, Roger David Casement was heir to two radically different traditions in Ireland. As…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Africa #Antrim #Banna Strand #Belgium #Congo #Dublin #England #Germany #Ireland #Irish Brigade #London #Nationalist #Peru #Roger Casement #Sir Roger Casement #U-Boat

[iwishyouhear]

#the lion king #lion #animals #africa #wild animals #wild #rise leo #landscape #sun #leo rising

[afrokken]

Journalist Ondiro Oganga brings an analysis of the comments from the president of South Africa, Julius Malema, concerning the role of the USA in Africa, covering topics on economic pressure to do business with american corporations. "US Comes To Africa To Steal Natural Resources & Finish Off The Continent" -- Julius Malema

#ondiro onganga #julius malema #africa rising #african diaspora news channel #Youtube

[saddayfordemocracy]

The Country That Drowned,

The climate crisis is no longer just the future It takes place now and here. It demands human life and it destroys the future of children. South Sudan is experiencing severe floods in its fourth year, which is a direct consequence of climate change. 800,000 people have lost their homes to the water masses, and every day that number is getting bigger. 

The roads are washed away along with crops, cattle, clean water and toilets. Emergency aid in the form of food and medicine cannot emerge and people are fighting across the dry land against poisonous snakes and crocodiles.

In 1991, the year he graduated, Grarup won the Danish Press Photographer of the Year award, a prize he would receive on several further occasions. In 1993, he moved to Berlin for a year, working as a freelance photographer for Danish newspapers and magazines. 

During his career, Grarup has covered many wars and conflicts around the world including the Gulf War, the Rwandan genocide, the Siege of Sarajevo and the Palestinian uprising against Israel in 2000 and latest Ukraine and the climate changes have had his focus.

Jan Grarup / StudioMadebygrarup

#art #photography #soudan #africa #climate change #climate crisis #human rights #humanity #flood #underwater #sea level rise #jan grarup #Black and White #poverty #migration #climate migration #BIFA #BIFA2022

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Please make that post

In reference to this post here and the larger point from this post.

So, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has two big fundamental problems in its premise, added onto by a whole load of sub-problems like 'Alan Moore has not met a woman character he can't insert a sexual assault storyline into yet', 'We're in that age where comics have to be juvenile to prove they're adult' and 'Alan Moore is the Grumpy Old Man Eternal'. These two problems are endemic of all fiction on the scale that League is operating on, and why I say it may be unintentionally the greatest critique of Event Comics in the world. These problems are

You cannot have experienced every work of fiction you are playing with (particularly in League's case: Alan Moore has not read every book and watched every movie in the entire world). Subsequently:

You will inevitably end up drawing mostly on what you are familiar with and let other things fall by the wayside.

This is endemic to Event Comics - even with a Shared Universe as rigorously pruned as DC or Marvel, your average comic book writer cannot have read every single comic featuring every single character in that universe, which inevitably means you are going to be able to tell which ones they have read - if you're lucky the ones they haven't read get bit parts, if you're unlucky you get Wonder Woman in Infinite Crisis. It's not even explicitly a problem, it's just a fact of event comics that we've all had to accept.

When it comes to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, this flaw gets amplified - which makes sense, since this flaw is proportional to the size of the source texts you are drawing from* and Alan Moore is drawing from all of fiction. As a precursor because we need to get this enforced more, the comics are extremely Anglocentric. Like, look at The New Traveller's Almanac from the back of Volume 2, and note how often a story actually from Africa, Asia or even Europe and America is mentioned, versus a story from Britain about those places. Hell, The Journey to the West, one of the most influential pieces of literature in the world, gets all of three references in this series.

It's a huge problem, and honestly makes me want more than ever a series like League by people from Africa and Asia - I'd be horribly confused reading it, but that'd be great, it'd expand my horizons all the more.

But that's not the gripe I want to bring up today. No, even after all that complaining about the Anglocentrism of League, I want to be a little more Anglocentric myself today. If you're not down for what is inevitably almost 1000 words of petty fanboy whining, please leave now, hope you enjoyed the actual salient criticism! Sorry 'bout that, but it's time: let's discuss Will Stanton at Hogwarts.

Bit of background for people who need it: in Volume 3 of League, the protagonists are trying to stop the Antichrist from ending the world. They eventually follow his tracks to a school in Scotland, where he was groomed to be the Antichrist and where he has just killed a host of people in a castle that is said to have once been able to move. The entire thing is a giant subtweet to Harry Potter for being unoriginal and, y'know, I'm not really going to defend that? I don't engage in criticism of Harry Potter's unoriginality myself, because it doesn't bother me too much and I genuinely feel that it takes away from the many more serious issues with the series, but it's still a fair cop and lord knows I love to point out the ripoffs whenever some TERFy piece of shit tries to insist that Rowling is some visionary writer that single-handedly invented the concept of female authors. If all Century was saying was that Harry Potter kind of sucks, I'd honestly probably add it on to things like Pratchett and Le Guin pointing out the flaws way before most people caught on. But there's one issue I take, and it's this:

The point Moore seems to be making, at least from what I can tell and what the common critical consensus is, is that Century is a three-issue rant about the commodification of magic and occult mystery, something the self-professed worshiper of an ancient snake god seems to take umbrage with. Harry Potter doesn't just suck because it's unoriginal, it and all British Wizard Children Fantasy of the incredibly nebulous time of basically everything post-1950s suck because they took away the magic and mystery from... well, magic.

And, y'know, I may not believe in actual magic myself, but I'm not going to say Moore is wrong to believe that. The message itself is fine. The problem is... well, 1. Alan Moore has not read every story in the world and consequently 2. He inevitably ends up drawing from what he's familiar with, and the things he hasn't read get used as props. And, my friends, he has not read The Dark Is Rising, which still remains one of my favorite books ever written. This is not a combination that results in a happy David.

Like, if Alan Moore is angry about the lack of mystery and intrigue in 'modern' fantasy? Here's a scene from the chapter of The Dark Is Rising where Will learns everything he needs to know as an ageless Old One:

He might read no more than one line — I have journeyed as an eagle — and he was soaring suddenly aloft as if winged, learning through feeling, feeling the way of resting on the wind and tilting round the rising columns of air, of sweeping and soaring, of looking down at patchwork-green hills capped with dark trees, and a winding, glinting river between. And he knew as he flew that the eagle was one of the only five birds who could see the Dark, and instantly he knew the other four, and in turn he was each of them. . . .

He read: . . . you come to the place where is the oldest creature that is in this world, and he that has fared furthest afield, the Eagle of Gwernabwy . . . and Will was up on a bare crag of rock above the world, resting without fear on a grey-black glittering shelf of granite, and his right side leaned against a soft, gold-feathered leg and a folded wing, and his hand rested beside a cruel steel-hard hooked claw, while in his ear a harsh voice whispered the words that would control wind and storm, sky and air, cloud and rain, and snow and hail — and everything in the sky save the sun and the moon, the planets and the stars.

How's that for mystery, Al? How's that for not trivializing magic? Maybe, if you hadn't very clearly picked Will's name out of a list of children's fantasy from the 1950s onwards, which is what I have to assume you did because the amount of references at Not-Hogwarts is so broad that you can't purely be criticizing Harry Potter and it's derivatives, Dark Is Rising came out in 1973 for god's sake, you wouldn't end up saying that a series that states outright in the fifth book that a key factor of magic is accepting that there are some things you will never know is less mystical and magical than Mary Fucking Poppins, no offense to Mary.

Now, is this petty fanboy complaining about a character from a series I like not being treated 100% how I want him? ...Yeah, pretty much, because if Moore hadn't included Will I wouldn't be as annoyed at his treatment of him. But that's another problem with League: Alan Moore uses the world of League to make broad sweeping statements: "Fiction from the 1800s was better", "Children's Fantasy trivializes magic", "Superheroes all suck unless they're obscure enough that I know them and no-one else", statements that cannot possibly hold up to scrutiny because he's not read everything in the world, and hell he's not even read most of the things he complains about because he's convinced himself he knows it all already. It's the problem with everything he uses, he warps it to fit his own worldview and leaves the people who love those stories, who read League entirely because it features those characters, in the lurch. He's reinvented the Event Comic, and it may be a parody but I'm not sure it is, and that's depressing.

*This, incidentally, is why I think Kim Newman's attempts at this concept work better than League - for most of his stories that I've read, Newman is pulling from genres specific enough to be conceivable but expansive enough to fill a supporting cast - e.g. vampire and associated Gothic literature of the 1800s for Anno Dracula or femme fatales throughout the 1800s for Angels of Music.

#league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg #the dark is rising #wow this got wordy #and inevitably only two people are going to care about the second half #but some rants I just go on for me y'know? #incidentally those two flaws with Shared Universes are why I'm really nervous to include Africa and Asia as actual places in #The Matter of Britain #like I reaaaally don't want to screw that up

[inqilabi]

I got chills because it's a completely different era. And it's not these two men in particular or anything like that, it's just the tide. Every motion has an equal an opposite reaction. And US unipolar hegemony is what birthed these two countries that had a long adversarial relationship in the past, to come together.

#africa gonna rise #asia gonna rise #the west will finally have conditions where it's people can no longer be complacent #and simply protest like its an IG photoshoot #they will properly ride up and attack US from within

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

“Loss and Damage”

South Sudan has been plagued by political violence and instability since its independence from Sudan in 2011. Now it is experiencing massive floods for the fourth consecutive year. Since 2019, unprecedented rainy seasons have submerged large parts of the country’s landscape. 

Heavy rains and floods have swept away people’s homes, properties, crops, livestock, schools and healthcare centres, and caused extensive infrastructural damage to roads and bridges. 

The climate crisis is bringing further challenges to this already vulnerable country.

© Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy, 

Finalist, Professional competition, Landscape, 

2023 Sony World Photography Awards

#art #photography #surreal #fabio bucciarelli #italy #sea level rise #sony world photography awards #basketball #damage #lost #sudan #africa #floods #climate crisis #climate chaos #climatestrike #political #migration #plague

[bigcatswildlife]

Beautiful image of a Cheetah with the moon rising.

📸 Photo by @nickkleer

🐆 Follow Us 🦁 @bigcatswildlife

When cheetahs are running full speed, their stride (length between steps) is 6-7 meters (21 feet). Their feet only touch the ground twice during each stride.

#bigcat #wildlife #bigcats #feline #cats #felidae #wildlife photography #bigcatswildlife #africa #cheetah #moon rise #cheetahs

[queerafricans]

LGBTI and of East African descent

Celeste O’Connor (Kenya)

Aida Osman (Eritrea)

Raylin Joy (Ethiopia)

IDMAN (Somalia)

Alewya (Ethiopia)

Chimano (Kenya)

Solomon Georgio (Ethiopia)

Savina Rise Mizrahi (Sudan)

Erica Luttrell (Tanzania)

Anjimile (Malawi)

#lgbti in east africa #celeste o’connor #aida osman #raylin joy #idman #alewya #chimano #solomon georgio #savina rise mizrahi #erica luttrell #anjimile #ethiopia #eritrea #kenya #somalia #tanzania #malawi #sudan