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Procès de la femme violentée : le médecin fond en larmes en pleine audience. Il dit avoir sauvé une vie, mais se retrouve aux portes de la prison (Vidéo)

Un enfant meurt dans des circonstances tragiques. C’est médiatisé, relayé , les gens pleurent et décrient ce genre de choses. Le père de l’enfant qui a été irresponsable et n’a jamais été présent pour l’enfant. Pourtant l’enfant de son vivant l’a cherché. Un père absent qui n’a même pas reconnu son enfant légalement, refait surface pour semer la zizanie. Au point de demander à ce qu’il y ait un arrangement à l’amiable avec l’accusé. Aucun respect, aucune dignité. Repose en paix bébé Divine.

A Ghanaian man, Opoku Afriyie, has been sentenced to one year in prison for stealing medication worth GH¢60 from a pharmacy in a desperate bid to treat his rheumatism. According to reports, Afriyie had been prescribed drugs he could not fully afford. With only GH¢20 in his possession, he seized a moment when the pharmacy attendant stepped away and left with the medication without paying. In a surprising twist, he later returned to the same pharmacy to purchase more drugs, where he was immediately recognized and arrested. The court convicted him of theft and imposed a 12-month custodial sentence. The ruling has ignited public debate in Ghana, with many citizens questioning the severity of the punishment given Afriyie’s poor health and dire financial situation.

can’t believe women fought to work

Who Abolished Slavery? You think there is no correlation between how we Africans have been engineered to look down on ourselves and to genuflect before those who oppressed us?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Who abolished slavery? Ask any fourth grader in Togo, and the answer comes without hesitation: Victor Schoelcher. Wake me from a deep sleep with that question, and my subconscious will answer before my eyes are open: Victor Schoelcher. Twenty-five years after leaving primary school, the colonial curriculum still lives in me like a reflex. That is what was planted, and that is how thoroughly it took root. It is only the adult brain, the one lucky enough to stumble upon other literatures, other histories, other archives, that comes afterward to contest the first answer. But the first answer is always his name.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ That is what colonial schools taught. That is what post-colonial schools taught. That is what is still being taught today, by people placed in power precisely to ensure that the curriculum of self-erasure continues undisturbed. Because in Francophone Africa, the abolition of slavery has one face, and it is this French man. And in twenty years of academic formation on this continent, from primary school through university, including my own years as a history major at the University of Lome, not once, not in a single classroom, not in a single textbook, was the Haitian Revolution mentioned. Not once were we told that enslaved Black people organized, fought, and defeated the French army, that Haïti became the first Black nation in colonial Americas and the first nation in modern history to defeat a European power that practiced slavery through the resistance of the very people it had enslaved. Twenty years of “schooling”: not one mention of that historical fact. And this is just one example, on just one subject. Because not once throughout my entire education in Togo was I introduced to a Black mathematician, a Black physicist, a Black inventor, a Black philosopher. Not once. But for those of us who were cursed with France, the French apparently discovered more than 70% of world knowledge and wrote more than 80% of the world’s books, because our curriculum was designed to make us believe that the smartest, most resourceful, most intellectually gifted humans to have ever walked the surface of this earth were French. When the data actually tells you that France contributes approximately 2% of the world’s scientific innovation. Two percent. And we were built, from childhood, to worship that two percent as the totality of human genius. I imagine the same arithmetic applied to British, or Portuguese colonies, just with a different flag. This just one subject. There are decades of damage underneath it, layered and compounding. Which is why it is genuinely exhausting to wake up every single day and be expected to debate, with patience and good faith, people who were produced by these laboratories of engineered ignorance and who are entirely convinced that what was done to their minds was an education.