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I just paid for access to this platform—not because I wanted to, but because I was forced to. I pay for my electricity. My internet. My devices. And now, I must pay to create content for a space owned by a white supremacist trillionaire who has already extracted more value from my data than I will ever see. May I forgive myself one day? All of this because the attack in Mali yesterday was too disturbing to watch in silence. And what I saw online was deeply troubling: Africans cheering the deaths of other Africans. Cheering the failure of states whose only sin is to fight for the self-determination of Africans at large. But I also saw enormous solidarity. And that is hopeful. We are in a much better place than we were five years ago. We should be proud of our Africans—today and always. Do not be discouraged. We are an ancient people. We have seen all of this before. Today is just another day. I am Fulani. If you have something against a non-palatable, non-nation-state identity, do not follow me. I speak from and for the African First Nations of the continent. By African First Nations, I mean the peoples whose identities, laws, memories, lands, routes, languages, and sovereignties existed before any colonial order/border and still survive beyond them: Fulani, Tuareg, Amazigh, Maasai, San, Oromo, Somali, Nubian, Afar, Tebu, Dogon, Kanuri, Wolof, Mandinka, Zulu, Xhosa, Igbo, Yoruba, Akan, Kongo, and 3980. I mean pastoralists, nomadic nations, border-crossing peoples, stateless peoples, and communities forced into nation-states that never fully recognised them. Including the African diaspora: the sons and daughters of our great-great-grandparents, the descendants of the enslaved, the displaced, the stolen, the scattered, and the returning. There is no distinction for me. Colonial borders, slave ships, plantations, passports, and exile did not sever us from one another. They only changed the routes through which we remember who we are. That is my main objective here: to speak from an anticolonial perspective that puts African First Nations first. I do not believe that African systems of governance should carry any vestige of colonial dirt. Not one grain. Since I am deeply in love with human nature, I truly believe nuanced approaches to our conversations will be effective. And we will disagree a lot. The objective of these posts is simple: to name evil. To call it by its name. No sugar-coating. No diplomacy. No apology. I believe we, as Africans First Nations, can finally live free from the white gaze—not because "they" will stop watching, but because we must stop caring. My principle: “If all white people died today, what would you be?” Read: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell.

In 1991 an ethnic cleansing war crime was committed in Assab/Afar #Ethiopia by allied Egyptian proxy insurgencies of Highlanders from #Eritrea (Eplf) and Tplf. Ever since, Assab and it's remaining Afar population are under a brutal occupation.

Mali was rocked by a massive coordinated assault last weekend. According to journalist @DavidHundeyin, it wasn't just terrorism, but a Western-backed attempted coup to undermine the sovereignty of the Alliance of the Sahel States. Watch The Freedom Side Live on BT's Youtube.

The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War Link: nytimes.com/2026/02/01/wor…

@AfricaFirsts If true, this is very sad...

Over 130 Nigerians seek evacuation back to Nigeria 🇳🇬 amid rising xenophobic tensions in South Africa 🇿🇦.

“Linguistic unity based on a foreign language […] is a cultural abortion.” - Cheikh Anta Diop in his book, *The Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Federal State of Black Africa*.

Ancient Ethiopian traders and mathematicians used a doubling-and-halving method of multiplication that effectively decomposed numbers into powers of two—an approach mathematically equivalent to the binary logic that underpins modern day computer processors.

This man was arrested in London for racially aggravated assault of a Muslim woman who was just standing nearby. He was started calling her a dirty F’ing Muslim & when another woman stepped in to help he told her he’s an IDF soldier & got in her face then a huge guy stopped him.

Sudan’s factories struggle in post-crisis recovery Sudan’s manufacturing sector is slowly reviving in areas like Khartoum, focusing on food processing, textiles, and building materials. Only about 10% of factories have resumed operations, with many damaged or destroyed during the conflict. Industrial recovery faces major obstacles, including damaged equipment, scarce raw materials, and reliance on imported machinery.

Happy birthday to the Cisse nonuplets, who turn five today! 🥳 On 4 May 2021, nine children were born to Halima Cisse (Mali) in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. This is the first known incidence of nonpulets surviving birth.

This studio did to brick exactly what Iran does to brick. Something we can do too in Africa but aren’t doing, because we keep choosing foreign aesthetics that don’t suit our climate or us as a people. Studio Tathya built their own office on a compact urban plot in Raipur, India. The decision they made first wasn’t about form. It was about orientation. South-west face: solid exposed brick, minimal openings. High thermal mass absorbing and slowing heat before it enters. North-east face: generous glazing, operable louvres, cross ventilation. The building shades itself on one side and breathes on the other. That’s not decoration. That’s a building reading its sun path and responding with the one material that could do both jobs: brick. The patterned brickwork on the lower facade isn’t ornamental either. Stepped corbelling around the window openings creates micro-shade on the glass. Every detail is working. This is what material honesty looks like when the architect believes in what they’re building. 📍 Studio Tathya Office, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Architects: Studio Tathya. 📷 Studio Snapster

#Mali: L'ancien ambassadeur de la France reconnaissait que c’était la France qui avait offert Kidal aux terroristes. Écoutez et dites ce que vous en pensez ✍🏼

Arghiri Emmanuel arguing that this is the fundamental, and entirely unnatural, economic basis of a global system of “Unequal Exchange” back in 1969.

UAE-BACKED RSF MILITIA DRONE HITS KENANA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX On 3 May 2026, UAE-backed RSF militias carried out a drone strike on the Kenana industrial complex in White Nile state, causing severe damage to the facilities, including the ethanol plant and fuel depots. Militia drones have intensified attacks in Sudan, targeting locations in Kosti, Rabak, and the village of Al-Kahli Zaidan in Al-Jazira State, as well as Gedaref in eastern Sudan and sites in southern Khartoum and Omdurman. The drone strike on the Kenana industrial complex ignited a massive fire, with plumes of smoke visible from nearby locations. These strikes highlight the militia's increased targeting of civilian infrastructure and essential facilities.

Je ne sais pas si c’est parce que j’ai arrêté de suivre l’actualité quelques jours, mais est-ce que vous vous rendez compte de ce qu’on est en train de voir ? Une chaîne internationale française, @TV5MONDE @TV5MONDEAfrique , donne la parole à une personne liée à Al-Qaeda ! Prenez une seconde. Relisez cette phrase ! Je rappelle que le Front de Libération de l’Azawad a mené des opérations conjointes avec le JNIM, un groupe affilié à Al-Qaeda. On parle de personnes responsables de centaines de morts, d’une déstabilisation qu’on ne rattrapera pas dans dix ans. Des personnes qui opèrent par la violence, qui terrorisent des populations entières, et qui viennent aujourd’hui exposer un projet politique sur un plateau télé. Est-ce que vous réalisez la gravité de ce que cela banalise ? Dans ce cas-là, autant donner la parole à Salah Abdeslam pour parler d’avenir politique. À quel moment cela devient acceptable ?

France wants to see the collapse of Mali's government because it would serve as a justification for French interference in Africa. France has a long history sabotaging the independence of certain nations (such as Haiti and Guinea) so that they can argue that these nations were better off under French control. As bad as things are for Africans in the French territories in the Caribbean, the rationalization is that Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guiana are better under French rule than they would be if they were independent like Haiti.

“Your satellite are able to see Mali army committing atrocities, but they cannot see very large groups of terrorists organizing themselves to attack Mali. “

🔴🇮🇱🇪🇹 La communauté éthiopienne est sous le choc après une attaque raciste menée par des Israéliens. Destao Chakol, un jeune éthiopien de 19 ans, a été attiré dans un guet-apens devant son domicile et tué de plusieurs coups de couteau par des israéliens.

C’est aujourd’hui que certains découvrent les liens d’Oumar Mariko avec le terrorisme. Comme d’habitude, j’avais prévenu en retraçant son parcours il y a 2 ans, le 3 avril 2024… 👉🏽youtu.be/fdAvPVbaWEE Extrait

Natasha Devon, "I hear this accusation all the time, that anti racism groups don't do enough to include Jewish people" "I just want to try and pour some clarity on that if I can" "When the appalling stabbing happened, Keir Starmer called a COBR meeting. He brought together some leading thinkers to ask what more could be done to tackle antisemitism. The Met police called for more funding to protect Jewish communities. The media gave it pretty much its undiverted attention for days" "That is the correct response" "That response did not happen when a Muslim woman was targeted by a hit and run" "When a Sikh woman was sexually assaulted by a racist who thought she was Muslim" "Or when 50 mosques were targeted between Juen and October 2025" "We don't see the same response" "Antiracism campaigners are looking at where they are needed" "When these appalling attacks happen to the Jewish communities we have the correct response" "When it happens to other communities: women, LGBT, black people, Muslims, not the same urgency is applied"

You wonder how over 12,000 western mercenaries got to Mali 🇲🇱 to coordinate their attacks on April 25th? Well, some of them came in as refugees and they had legal documents delivered by the UNHCR. @GoitaAssimi @Gal_Abd_Maiga @GouvMali you need to shut down the damn UNHCR right now!