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'Memory is a weapon' Don Mattera @marjanboelsma.bsky.social #FreeMovementForAll #ArchiveAzaniaCom Against forgetting: https://t.co/fwVdZWjoMJ

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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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@ReutersAfrica
Reuters Africa
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Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by using the judiciary and police.
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reuters.com
Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by using the judiciary and police.
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@nziokamul1
Nzioka Muli
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The British government killed over 2 million Kenyans between 1951- 1960.
@Joe__Bassey
Typical African
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The hidden atrocities of the British in Kenya 🇰🇪 exposed.
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'Officials in the Netherlands are demanding answers from a U.S. commission after panels honoring Black vets at a World War II cemetery were taken down' https://t.co/ZI3u5sj6f9
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ms.now
Officials in the Netherlands are demanding answers from a U.S. commission after panels honoring Black vets at a World War II cemetery were taken down.
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'Similarly, whites account for 7.3 percent of the population but continue to own nearly three-quarters of all farmland while Blacks account for 81 percent of the population yet own 4 percent of the land.'
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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2 of every 3 Black South Africans remain mired in poverty, or roughly 30 million people out of a total population of 52 million. 1% White South Africans living in poverty. https://t.co/3JB6Yllneq
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blackagendareport.com
Decades of unmet promises and endemic corruption have eroded the ANC's dominance, creating a surge for a party led by South Africa's white minority.
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'Het ontnemen van verhalen, en vermogen om ze te vertellen, is buitengewoon belangrijke stap in ontmenselijking. Daarmee maak je het eenvoudiger om mensen te doden,omdat ze niet langer als mens worden gezien,maar als iets wat er eigenlijk al niet meer is' https://t.co/RICv749kj1
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oneworld.nl
De Amerikaanse schrijver Ta-Nehisi Coates, wiens bekroonde werk op sommige scholen wordt verboden, roept op ‘te vechten’ voor kunst, cultuur en zelfbevrijding in tijden van autocratie. Want verhalen,...
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'In a society where the most dehumanizing imagery has retreated from store shelves, why does the tradition of blackface persist in living rooms, streets, and schools?' https://t.co/bgL6HPLC9B
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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Screening 'And She Didn't Die'. Kethiwe Ngcobo is piecing together the extraordinary life of her mother, Lauretta Ngcobo – a rural South African storyteller turned revolutionary, exile and celebrated feminist writer. #IDFA Met #OneWorld @seadanourhussen Foto met Kethiwe Ngcobo
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@QudsNen
Quds News Network
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Israeli settler militias are attacking Palestinian homes in the Wadi Sa’ir area, north of Hebron.
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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Bevrijding van Parijs en 'whites only overwinningsparade'
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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In Meppel 2015
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@AssalRad
Assal Rad
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Israel’s decades-long project of colonialism, dispossession, and propaganda has aimed to erase Palestine itself. The media narrative framing Gaza as separate from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the millions of Palestinians denied their right of return is part of that erasure.
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'...about the importance of being born into a ‘conscious life’. With this consciousness comes the realisation that you have ‘justified the unjustifiable and made sacred what shouldn’t be’.
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'And She Didn’t Die tells the life story of South African writer and resistance fighter Lauretta Ngcobo, as seen through the eyes of her daughter, film director Kethiwe Ngcobo https://t.co/Gs0LXR7Xd2
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festival.idfa.nl
And She Didn’t Die tells the life story of South African writer and resistance fighter Lauretta Ngcobo, as seen through the eyes of her daughter, film director Kethiwe Ngcobo. Lauretta grew up in...
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'Mamdani’s father is known to be a great admirer of the Ghanaian freedom fighter, Kwame Nkrumah, who led the fight for independence from British rule and served as the newly independent country’s first president from 1957' https://t.co/MHOBkOeYEC
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@MarjanBoelsma
Marjan Boelsma
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'How do you navigate the idolatry and hero-worship, especially from liberal, often white audiences who convert moral courage into spectacle? Does this adulation depoliticize the struggle you represent?”
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africasacountry.com
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.
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@Liepollo9
AfrikanOlogist (DPhil)
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If this can translate to the return of the land to the dispossesed Afrikan majority, it would be of more interest. We need to stop being distracted by 'performative unity' & 'diversity' with no subtantive shift in power & lived outcomes for Afrikan people. No shade on Siya.
@andNickMullins
Nick Mullins
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Head & shoulders.
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