Paul Modjadji

Tonight we land in #Dakar in the golden shores of #Senegal . We visit Goree Island, the Pink Lake and The Renaissance Monument amongst other cool things. Catch #BreakingDownBorders on @Official_SABC1 at 6pm 📺

The Mandela family stands outside Victor Verster Prison, after spending more than 5 hours with Nelson Mandela on his 71st birthday, 18 July 1989, Cape Town. Credit: Rashid Lombard / AFP

Winnie Mandela and her Sister outside the Palace of Justice during the Rivonia Trial, December 1963. Credit: Alf Kumalo/Drum Social Histories

The Funeral of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, March 1978. Credit: Drum Archives

I want to thank @NetflixSA and @stainedglasstv_ for taking my story from print to film. This is such a surreal moment for me!! #ThePolygamist is my debut novel, the book that got rejected by many publishers. So I took a bet on myself and self published. The bet paid off!!

Miriam Makeba, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Tshala Muana, Nayanka Bell, Georges Ouédraogo, and Nahawa Doumbia pictured together.

One for the anti abortionists 🤣🤣

Alice Walker.. The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

Zenani with her nephew Mandla Mandela, c 1990s. Credit: Alf Kumalo/ 8115 A Prisoner’s Home

Winnie Mandela under house arrest 1969. Credit: Peter Magubane/Mayibuye Archives

Ezekiel Mphahlele receives a kiss from his wife Rebecca after being awarded his MA in Literature with distinction from the University of South Africa, c 1957. Credit: Peter Magubane/Drum Archives/BAHA

1st day at school 🥰🥰

Did you know? Dr. Maya Angelou spoke six languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Fante. Her years living in Egypt and Ghana deepened her connection to global culture and storytelling. #MayaAngelou 📸 Ms. Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Angie Stone and Chaka Khan (2003) 🖤

Caroline and Elias Motsoaledi, outside their Soweto home after his release from prison, 1989. Credit: Gisele Wulfsohn

This is Phila Ndwandwe. In 1985, Phila was 🇿🇦 recruited into the ANC. She became an MK fighter. 3 years later, she was abducted in Swaziland by Apartheid police. She suffered unspeakable horror and was torturęd, in an effort to turn her into an informer. One always gets the sense that the fight against Apartheid was a masculine one. To a certain extent we can not fault people for thinking that it is only men, through the sacrifice of their bodies who liberated this country, because somehow history chooses to ignore the women who fought alongside glorified men. Phila Ndwandwe was breąstfeeding, when she was abducted (A makarov in one hand and a baby in the other). Aaah! Mbokodo! Her family was made to believe that she had eloped to Tanzania when the shaIIow grave of their child was a mere 10 kilometers from where they lived. Her d.eath and grave came to be known when her k.iller asked for amnesty for her brutal m.urder. Her k.illers testified before the TRC that she was repeatedly b.eaten and kept naked for 10 days until she made herself a pair of panties using a plastic bag. When they realized they weren't going to get the Commander to b.etray her comrades, her k.illers blindfolded her, took her to a veld and shot her in the s.kull. When her remains were unearthed, the bullet hole in her skuII was clearly visible, and her killęr testified that she had been s.hot while kneeling. Other articles have suggested that she was hit over the head and s.hot while unconscious. One of the men who m.urdered Phila described her as "Brave. Very brave. " let's celebrate Phila. Her selfless dedication to the emancipation of our people should not be undermined. It should not be forgotten! One can only hope that her targeted body is dancing free and light. This is Phila Ndwandwe- the woman who refused to betray her comrades.

My first day at school backed up by Somdala 🥰🥰🥰

Do you remember Sharpville? Learn and Teach Magazine, March 1992

On this day in 1983, Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Color Purple. Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction ❤️💚🖤 #alicewalker #womenwhoinspire

Sheryl Lee Ralph's bridesmaids’ photo from her 2005 wedding.🖤