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theafricatheynevershowyou: dynamicafrica: STYLE ICON: Patti...

Mon, 28 May 2012 01:15:52 -0400

dynamicafrica:

STYLE ICON: Patti Boulaye

Nigerian-British entertainer, Patti Boulaye was born born Patricia Ngozi Ebigwe on 3 May 1954 in mid-western Nigeria. As a teenager, she witnessed the horrors of the Biafran war in the country and her family later emigrated to the United Kingdom.

Raised in a strict Catholic household, Boulaye initially had hopes of becoming a nun. However, after mistakenly auditioning and for and successfully gaining a part in the musical Hair (she had thought the line was a queue for Madame Tussaud’s), Boulaye stepped into the world of entertainment and never looked back.

- DynamicAfrica

she’s stunning!!

omganotherblog: Vivant Denon etched the image of the Sphinx of...

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:57:51 -0400

omganotherblog:

Vivant Denon etched the image of the Sphinx of Giza around 1798. This image (above) and written account (a part of Dr. Freeman’s collection) is from the 1803 issue of Universal Magazine. What is most intriguing is that Denon does not mention any damage to the nose or lips of the Sphinx. From that same magazine, here is the written account about the Sphinx of Giza in Denon’s own words:

”…Though its proportions are colossal, the outline is pure and graceful; the expression of the head is mild, gracious, and tranquil; the character is African, but the mouth, and lips of which are thick, has a softness and delicacy of execution truly admirable; it seems real life and flesh. Art must have been at a high pitch when this monument was executed; for, if the head wants what is called style, that is the say, the straight and bold lines which give expression to the figures under which the Greeks have designated their deities, yet sufficient justice has been rendered to the fine simplicity and character of nature which is displayed in this figure…”

— The Sphinx of Giza image (above) is from the Freeman Institute Black History Collection

WAS the SPHINX of GIZA
MODELED AFTER
an AFRICAN?

Count Constantine de Volney

   In 1787, Count Constantine de Volney — a French nobleman, philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician — embarked on a journey to the East in late 1782 and reached Ottoman Egypt were he spent nearly seven months.

   Constantine de Volney was troubled much by the institution of slavery. His expressed opinion that the ancient Egyptians were black Africans much departed from the typical European view of the late eighteenth century, but it gave many people cause for reflection. During his visit to Egypt he expressed amazement that the Egyptians – whose civilization was greatly admired in Europe – were not White!

   “All the Egyptians,“ wrote de Volney, ”have a bloated face, puffed-up eyes, flat nose, thick lips – in a word, the true face of the mulatto. I was tempted to attribute it to the climate, but when I visited the Sphinx, its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. On seeing that head, typically Negro in all its features, I remembered the remarkable passage where Herodotus says:

  ’ As for me, I judge the Colchians to be a colony of the Egyptians
because, like them, they are black with woolly hair…

   “When I visited the Sphinx, I could not help thinking that the figure of that monster furnished the true solution to the enigma (of how the modern Egyptians came to have their ‘mulatto’ appearance)

   “In other words, the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Greeks and Romans, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold.

   “Just think,” de Volney declared incredulously, ”that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery, and questioned whether Black men have the same kind of intelligence as whites!

   “In other words the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same stock as all the autochthonous peoples of Africa and from the datum one sees how their race, after some centuries of mixing with the blood of Romans and Greeks, must have lost the full blackness of its original color but retained the impress of its original mould.”

      M. Constantine de Volney, Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 (London: 1787), p. 80-83.

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Sat, 26 May 2012 15:42:53 -0400

fyeahblackhistory: Today marks the passing of Ivan Van Sertima...

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:37:42 -0400

fyeahblackhistory:

Today marks the passing of Ivan Van Sertima on May 25th 2009.

Ivan Van Sertima (1935-2009)

“We have come to reclaim the house of history. We are dedicated to the revision of the role of the African in the world’s great civilizations, the contribution of Africa to the achievement of man in the arts and sciences. We shall emphasize what Africa has given to the world, not what it has lost.”

With absolute certainty it can stated that, due to his consistent and unrelenting scholarship during his lifetime in the rewriting of African history and the reconstruction of the African’s place in world history, particularly in the field of the African presence in ancient America, Ivan Van Sertima has cemented his position as one of our greatest scholars. He has was one of the scholars at the forefront of fighting to place African history in a new light. Simply put, Van Sertima’s clarion call has been: “We shall follow the trail of the African in Europe, in Asia, and in every corner of the New World, seeking to set the record straight.

Ivan Van Sertima dared theorize ancient Egyptians were black and Africans reached America before Europeans did. To many, those simple assertions were radical splendid notions.However they were notions that went on to inspire a generation of scholars.

Ivan Van Sertima, a Highland Park resident taught at Rutgers University’s Africana Studies department for more than 30 years, died May 25 2009 of natural causes. He was 74.

During his life, the crusader of African culture wrote 15 books, lectured at more than 100 universities, and spoke before Congress about his theories of pre-Columbian America.

An expert on African authors, he served on the Nobel Prize committee from 1976 to 1980 to nominate candidates for the literature prize. During that period, he also founded the Journal of African Civilization, in 1979.

His best-seller, “They Came Before Columbus” (1977), is now in its 29th edition. Critics said his theories were thin on facts, but supporters said his presentation of history was as rooted in fact as mainstream versions of history.

Clement Price, professor of history and director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, called the book seminal.

“It dared to challenge one of the largest mythologies of Western civilization: Africans’ incapability to make contributions in the area of science, discovery, global migration,” he said.

The book inspired Africa scholars worldwide, people “who wanted to know what smart black scholars (were) thinking about,” Price said. “It’s the book on everybody’s bookshelf.”

Rutgers history professor Norman Markowitz said mainstream historians are “rewarded and praised, not challenged, because what they say is what those with wealth and power want to hear — which one could never say about Ivan.”

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning fiction writer, who was the editor at Random House in the 1970s who insisted the company print “They Came Before Columbus,” Price said. ‘Van Sertima, defended his ideas before the Smithsonian Institution in 1994.’

We dare you to become great men and women like Dr Sertima, We dare you to continue his work, empower yourself and inspire generations to come.

"You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968, you can’t say “nigger” — that..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:48:34 -0400

“You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968, you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like “forced busing,” “states’ rights,” and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now that you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is that blacks get hurt worse than whites.”

- Lee Atwater, a head republican strategist, in an anonymous interview in 1981. He is admitting that republicans use coded-language to appeal to the racists in their base. Because, as he always said, “people vote their fears.”

Lee, who would eventually become the head of the Republican National Committee, helped Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush win their Presidential elections by teaching them to use overtly-racist tactics.

When the N-word became taboo, Republicans began referring to black people in less-direct ways, with terms like “welfare queens.” They learned how to say the N-word, without saying the N-word.

Sadly, this still continues today. As seen in Newt Gingrich’s claim that Obama is a “food stamp President” and Rick Santorum’s assertion that he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better by giving them someone else’s money.”

(via thesoapboxschtick)

abrasiveangel: see WSHH

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:06:16 -0400

abrasiveangel:

see WSHH

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afrikanwomen: Nonkululeko ‘Nku’ Nyembezi-Heita is the Chief...

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:27:34 -0400

afrikanwomen:

Nonkululeko ‘Nku’ Nyembezi-Heita is the Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal South Africa, the largest steel producer on the African continent and subsidiary of the ArcelorMittal Group, which in turn is the largest steel producer in the world. She was appointed to this position in March 2008. Prior to this, Ms Nyembezi-Heita served as the Chief Officer of Mergers & Acquisitions for the Vodacom Group and before that, Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Capital (for 7 years), then local subsidiary of the New York based global investment management company.

Ms Nyembezi-Heita has a B.Sc. Hons degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology and a Masters degree in the same discipline from California Institute of Technology. She also has an MBA from the Open University (UK).

Ms Nyembezi-Heita serves as non-executive director on the boards of Old Mutual and the JSE Securities Exchange.

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afrikanwomen: Ms. Bineta Diop of Senegal is the Executive...

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:27:24 -0400

afrikanwomen:

Ms. Bineta Diop of Senegal is the Executive Director and founder of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS). She began her international career in human rights 27 years ago as Programme Coordinator of the International Commission of Jurists, where she obtained extensive experience in human rights issues not only in Africa but also in Asia and Latin America. Ms. Diop has led Femmes Africa Solidarité in numerous peace-building programmes, including the creation of a strong West African women’s movement, the Mano River Women’s Peace Network (MARWOPNET). In December 2003, the United Nations General Assembly awarded MARWOPNET the UN Prize in the field of Human Rights.

Diop has observed elections in post-conflict areas such as Liberia and facilitated peace talks, particularly for Burundian and Congolese women. As a member of the African Union Women Committee for Peace and Development (AWCPD), Ms. Diop played an instrumental role in achieving gender parity within the African Union Commission in 2003. These efforts culminated in July of 2004 as the AU took ownership of the gender-mainstreaming programme at the highest level, adopting the “Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa.”

To strengthen these programmes, Ms. Diop is mobilizing all her efforts in building a Pan African Centre for Gender, Peace and Development in Dakar, Senegal. This centre of excellence will serve as a hub for building African leadership with a focus on gender and peaceful resolution of conflicts. The centre’s first program was launched in May 2005 with an African Gender Forum followed by the first African Gender Awards presented to President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. Diop has received many awards from women groups such as Mano River Women Peace Network, the West African Women Association Award in 2005 as well as the Leadership and Good Governance Award from the International Women Federation for World Peace.

Ms. Diop has been elected as Vice-President of the African Union Women’s Committee, and chairs the United Nations Working Group on Peace in Geneva, which is part of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women monitoring the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. She also serves as a member of the Group of International Advisors to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

(—source)

kemetically-ankhtified: latinegro: cwriting: criminallyinnocen...

Mon, 21 May 2012 04:41:52 -0400

kemetically-ankhtified:

latinegro:

cwriting:

criminallyinnocent:

Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.

smh

“Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.” ~Dennis Leary
Damn

"The Ancient Egyptians had no connection to Blacks! Just 'cause they were in Africa, doesn't mean they were Black! They were ALL North Arabs! And they were a special type of African! All of them had high tans and flowy hair and pointy noses, nevermind the artifacts that show dark skin and full lips and noses! Never mind the hundreds of ancient combs shaped like today's "afro picks"! Never mind the fact that they used hair products that are majority used by Blacks today! Never mind their kinky-coily wigs! Those are Niggercentric lies! Kemet means "black land" as in the soil, not the color of the peoples! In order to be "Black" you have to have extremely dark skin, you can't be all types of brown! The only Blacks in Egypt were those ugly Nubians, but Egypt threw them out! Who cares if records indicate that their ancestral mitochondrial DNA is Black? Okay, fine they were Black! ... But not Black-Black!"

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:00:39 -0400

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zorascreation:

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ridemylens: a-lostbird: Native American and African American...

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:09:50 -0400

ridemylens:

a-lostbird:

Native American and African American cowboys.

The one site I found this from (that’s of course not working for me right now) said they were from the Chickasaw Nation. Another website gave no name or who took the photo just said “Native American and African American cowboys, ca. 1860-1870”. Either way this is a great photo. If any information on them please add.

Let me point something out for everyone: The pair shown here are father & son. It’s a shame that no one can see this. The boy has dark skin, so automatically, people refuse to see that not only do they share the exact same features, they have the same posture as well.

The fact that people cannot see what is evident is a direct result of whitewashing.

afrikanwomen: Zubeida Jaffer is an award-winning South African...

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:08:47 -0400

afrikanwomen:

Zubeida Jaffer is an award-winning South African journalist and author. She was a key figure in the struggle movement in the Western Cape in the apartheid years.

Her latest short publication, Not by Dread Alone, is an essay about the state of journalism in South Africa. Her memoir, Our Generation, eloquently tells the story of her emotional journey through the years of South Africa’s turbulence into a new democracy. One of her books, Love in the Time of Treason, has been described as a ‘tour de force’ and has been given a special mention at the prestigious Africa-wide literature award known as the Noma Awards. It is based on a true story of love between an Indian young man and a feisty political leader in rural South Africa.

Since 1980, she has worked for the Rand Daily Mail, the Cape Times, Grassroots and has been part of the movement that gave birth to a number of community newspapers all over the country. Post ‘94, she was the founding editor of the parliamentary bureau for Independent Newspapers, the major chain of 14 newspapers and was tasked with forging the formerly whites-only press corps into a diverse team.

Ms Jaffer holds an MSc degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York and bachelor degrees from the Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town. She has also been an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for African Studies and a fellow at UCT’s Africa Gender Institute. She has written for a wide-range of publications in South Africa and abroad. In 1994, her coverage of the Rwanda genocide was carried in the Hindu, in India, on French and South African radio, in the Asahi Shimbun in Japan and a number of other publications.

She is the first woman in Africa to have won the coveted foreign journalist award from the National Association of Black Journalists in the USA.

Ms Jaffer is known too for her community activism which has earned her at least two spells in apartheid South Africa’s notorious detention centres.

R.I.P. Donna summers the queen of disco

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:44:29 -0400

R.I.P. Donna summers the queen of disco

bad-dominicana: sonofbaldwin: Erasure. Sammy Sosa destroyed...

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:24:31 -0400

bad-dominicana:

sonofbaldwin:

Erasure. Sammy Sosa destroyed his skin because he loathed it so much. Now he looks like the walking dead.

im shocked hes not wearing his green contacts here. and he relaxed and greazed his hair to hell and back in an attempt to make it look gurd. i think he was also tryina match his fellow contact wearing white dominican wife. it didnt work. :|

them country clubs still dont want you. you still a black former limpia-botas so no dice.

R.I.P chuck brown the godfather of go-go music

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:45:42 -0400

R.I.P chuck brown the godfather of go-go music

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Tue, 15 May 2012 17:25:55 -0400

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