On this day, we give thanks for one of our most beloved ancestors. Patrice Lumumba was born on July 2 , 1925, in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumumba is well known for his Pan-African ideology in which he advocated for an independent and self-sufficient Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo was colonized by…
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INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE – ETHIOPIA
TEDDY AFRO- TIKUR SEW I hope you are as mesmerized and fascinated by the video and song as me. The song is written to honor and celebrate Emperor Menelik’s defeat of the Italians. As many of us know, Ethiopia was the only African country to escape being colonized. I believe this video does an amazing job…
Festival De Sahel , Loumpou, and the journey across the dessert
Everyone was talking about it. Festival de Sahel, Are you going????? I knew I had to make it there and the universe provided a way. My school just happened to need a female chaperon for an overnight field trip that JUST SO HAPPENED to be a 20 minute walk through the sand dunes to the…
