Rosebell Kagumire
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Writer. editor @AfriFeminists . More words at @newint . “I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy ~Winnie Madikizela Mandela✊🏿🖤
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@DonCorleANN
And Meg will continue having sex on her terms 😂
It’s 2024 but they want 1890 headlines 😂
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They want women’s labour so much that even after it was taken that long for a woman to leave they will think she must stay since she has endured! They won’t learn a thing
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“I spent four decades of my life thinking how to treat patients with the Ebola virus. So this is the achievement of my life" - Dr Muyembe, who with his team of researchers, has discovered a new Ebola treatment that can cure symptoms in just an hour
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Akon and his huge land acquisition moves when the natives have no land! Once again Black capitalism takes you to the same hell!!
Akon and his dreams of cities named after him on lands of people whose ancestors are buried on that land but have no land is violence!
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First time in Sénégal, I brought back a baobab seedling. Here we are 12 years later. 💚💚
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The colonial urge to travel ban people whose borders you casually walk in 🤷🏿♀️
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I am disappointed that you don’t find me guilty of offending the president. I plan to offend Yoweri Museveni Kaguta because he has offended us. Find me guilty of offending the dictator.”
#PushForStellaNyanzi
#FreeStellahNyanzi
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It takes a village, they say, but oftentimes, it takes the women to turn the tide. My great ancestors whose faces I see when I look in the mirror carry me.
It's been 4 years of grit, agony, and pride to build this dream into reality. To rest and softness in 2023! 🖤
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We need a shift in how sexual abuse is covered by the media.
Over 60 learners in Luuka and Kaliro districts are likely to miss school next term after they were impregnated during the lockdown.
#NBSYourStory
#StaySafeUg
#NBSUpdates
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Just listened to
@Julius_S_Malema
entire speech at the protest today against
#Uganda
's ant-gay bill. Goosebumps 👏🏽👏🏽
Malema might have just delivered the most powerful pan-Africanist speech by an African leader challenging the status quo in recent times!!
Amandla ✊🏿✊🏿🖤🖤
♦️Must Watch♦️
CIC
@Julius_S_Malema
addressing at the Picket Against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill at the Ugandan Embassy
We salute you comrades for being brave and for standing firm with the LGBTQI+ community of Uganda
#GayRightsAreHumanRights
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White supremacy upheld just.
Trying to regulate how colonized peoples emote, respond to their oppresser passing while claiming freedom of expression is a long used tactic to force civility that doesn’t ever serve the enslaved and the violated!
A statement regarding recent social media posts by Uju Anya.
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Glad that another African coach, Ivory Coast interim coach Emerse Fae wins the
#AFCON2023Final
!
From Aliou Cissé to Emerse Fae, we love to see it!
May more Africans decolonize football and believe in themselves! 🇨🇮🤌🏿😏
Thats the lesson of
#AFCON2023
✊🏾
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Having big numbers of classed women in positions of power and Women’s liberation are not the same, especially when that majority is positioned to serve the patriarchal state’s hold onto citizens.
Isn't Rwanda touted for having a female majority parliament?? Where are these so called leaders when we need them?? How can a 24 year old girl go to jail because of her choice of clothes???? This is so pathetic
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So the EC has no results for the public to see a week after they announced Museveni’s 6th term. Where did media house’s get what they broadcast? Any media that broadcast results had responsibility to tell citizens the source!
#UgandaDecide2021
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“The statue of slave trader Edward Colston was replaced in Bristol on Wednesday morning – with a sculpture of one of the protesters -Jen Reid -whose anger brought him down. Erected by a team directed by the artist Marc Quinn.”
via
@guardian
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A Ugandan film about male violence against women - 'Bed of Thorns' - has won the African category at an independent film festival in London. The director Eleanor Nabwiso”
✊🏾💪🏿
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Uganda exporting marijuana while criminilising it's use at home is so much coloniality!
Grow for foreigners and deny the growers access to same benefits!
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Make it a habit to teach a younger person some negotiation skills.
It took a woman to tell me “you are charging less than the other consultant yet you are more knowledgeable and skilled in that area”
Will never forget her or that day!
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I mean, I can't keep calm! Always great meeting
@Winnie_Byanyima
. Your passion just reaffirms! 🙌🏿🙌🏿
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Today is Dr Stella Nyanzi's birthday! Please read this poem written from her prison cell in Luzira. You are the fighter our country needs most! I hope you are out soon!
#FreeStellaNyanzi
#PushforStellaNyanzi
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Akon's huge land acquisitions in a country plagued by combined imperialist, capitalist, patriarchal and dictatorial plunder of communal lands leaving millions landless and in poverty is violence!
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What you believe cannot be dictated onto others. Uju beyond a university is her own person and has a right to talk about those who murdered her people the way she sees fit. Civility imposed to the benefit of colonisers is the oldest trick in the oppression book!
#protectUju
I do believe opinion can be expressed without unnecessary vulgarity. Very unbecoming for a scholar. We should go back to expressing diverging point of views with solid arguments rather than cursing for emphasis. Universities can’t shy away from condemning outrageous statements
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For everyone in Uganda, who lost their lives, who today lost a loved one, someone, family, whoever's injured, who is too traumatised to speak tonight, we owe them the truth. I don't see this state about to give any justice but let's continue to speak the truth to power!
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LGBTQI+ persons existed before Uganda, they will continue to exist long after it.
The new anti-homosexuality law seeks to invisibilize the community, criminalizing people, promote hate. Every law rooted in hate of difference has always been resisted, & the resistance continues
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Can't keep calm!
@BWGovernment
just appointed Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry. She is 31!
Africa, we can't go nowhere if we continue to block potential & skills of young people, young women in particular!
#Botswana
continue to set the bar high
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Call this the
#MatiaKasaijaChallenge
To all those who's pockets are going whuuuu this January! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the show team at
#NBSMorningBreeze
@mildredtuhaise
@SolomonSerwanjj
@sabitijoseph
@SamsonKasumba
@VictoriaNyeko
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Solidarity with the people of
#Chad
now more than ever! When a three-decade dictator is put out or just dies, what unravels after him can be as deadly as their own rule!
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We finally selling the baskets made over lockdown. For the record I made one and am not selling 🤣. These are made by mom, my aunties and sister. Love the beautiful colors.
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“The perpetual policing of our emotions is the reason why so many of us are constantly performing happiness and trying to be agreeable, even to our own detriment. It’s not about masking or trying to fit in; it’s about survival.
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Internalized racism continues, anti-Afro hair moves like these are a colonial legacy we are yet to push out of our minds! The violence again children and women in name of good hair 😢
UPDATE: Outrage among parents in east Rwanda as GS Nyendo School teachers shave crosses in student hair to force them to shave completely. The school is located in Rwempasha sector, Nyagatare district. The school says it requires all students to shave head-bald
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Akon cosying up with a regime that has forced millions off their lands in the name of development is violence!
From Amuru to Kalangala to Bwindi to Karamoja, there's no free land in Uganda!
Akon and the rich like him to acquire big lands rely on the violent state structure!
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You can’t make this stuff up! A Ugandan TV
@nbstv
having all lives matter shirts on, proudly supporting white supremacy when black people are being killed and justice still far away. Educate educate!
#BlackLivesMatter
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
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Happiest if you are not an immigrant or refugee.
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That moment Stella Nyanzi told the magistrate "I really feel sorry for you. How do you dispense justice in an injustice system? I know this is important for your career.'
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Dr Stella Nyanzi is back at High Court today for a ruling in a case against Makerere University indefinite suspension despite University Staff Tribunal in October 2018 reordering for her reinstatement, promotion and compensation. I hope you win today warrior!
#FreeStellaNyanzi
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You constantly shook us to remind us of what colonialism did to us & what it continued legacies today on Black people. You wrote, you spoke, you fought. May your lessons never be lost on us PROF. AMA ATA AIDOO. Rest in power ✊🏿🖤
My heartfelt condolences to you
@kinnareads
💜
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Prof. Sylvia Tamale opening Feminist Africa conference. ‘May we have the humility to always remember that we stand and build on the great work of our feminist ancestors’ 👏🏾👏🏾
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@Rixpoet
They must humble children and women, deny them education, income and opportunity historically to maintain the fallacy that they are born to be on top. insidious! Same with racism
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Read my friend, beyond headlines. Read Prof.Tamale, many women that came before you. Read Wangari Maathai,read! Read about women of Soweto, about women Cameroon, read! But first be curious enough to know your dislike for something as natural as a nakedness is rooted in shame!
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When you try photo stealing! Court today ruled Dr Stella Nyanzi has a case to answer. Stella was in high spirits despite the ruling which lawyers were displeased with. She said the ultimate goal of this case should be to educate the nation!
#FreeStellaNyanzi
#PushForStellaNyanzi
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Christian fundamentalism so high it should scare anyone to have people in power that deploy religion and play with fundamentalists on state matters. Holding my breath rn! We know what rights go when religiosity is taken into heart of the state
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Policing women’s bodies from the street to parliament, everyday misogyny never rests, continues even under a female president.
Sexist institutions measure the hemline and tightness of women clothes. You can get in the door but they constantly remind you you are not free!
📌 KICKED OUT
🔴 Tanzanian MP Condester Michael Sichlwe caused a stir in parliament in Dodoma today 'by wearing black tight-fitting trousers, and yellow top'.
Speaker of Parliament Job Ndugai threw her out for wearing 'non-parliamentary attire'.
📷
@Hakingowi
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There's no free land in Africa for the rich to exploit! The people who will never see a cent from this city will be the ones whose lands will be captured! Capitalist expansion like Akon is pitching is inherently violent!
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Fuck the patriarchy still in 2020. 2019 worked my ass off to get this house, 2020 we need more money to
#fuckthepatriarchy
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You may have seen the case of Ugandan children who died in care or after being admitted in a center run an American woman who was no medic. So I had some conversations. It's really heartbreaking!
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23.04.2022!
39 and going on to be fione rest of my life. Blessings pon blessings to everyone who is always supportive and reminder that I deserve softness. Take in all the Taurus energy!
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Dear international media,
#Ethiopia
is a country of over 100 million people. It has enough experts on their own lives and their politics, their anxieties and hopes so normalize African expert voices.
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When Stella writes about you, I mean 😭😭😭
Such thoughtfulness is Stella! And reading her book
#NoRosesFromMyMouth
so far makes you laugh, cringe, freeze, aghast! All can be in the same poem!
It’s an honor to know her and learn from her ways of fighting!
#FreeStellaNyanzi
!
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An election held on gun point, controlled by the regime which cut off the most mass communication in the country was never going to deliver a turning point in the revolution! Still I voted.
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When you have no one to fight but your own people after 35 years in power. You don't even wait for them to think of an alternative- you take tanks into the streets, planes in the air to remind them what awaits them if they don't choose you. Last days of dictatorship!
In a show of might, UPDF tanks have driven through the famous opposition stronghold down town Kampala. The tanks belong to the land forces commanded by Elwelu.
Uganda is now some 45 hours away from its presidential and parliamentary poll
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I am used to hearing that Uganda Kiswahili is terrible but I didn't know it was this bad 🤣🤣🤣
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Points on this space:
1: Beware of using the need for evidence as measure to silence experiences of victims of torture (Kakwenza's torture is visible, many may not be)
2: It's not an individual vs systemic accountability. These can be pushed concurrently
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Toni Morrison's first novel wasn’t published until she was 39 years old.
If you got the words, you got the words. Never be afraid of time!
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"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ~ Assata Shakur
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I can sacrifice motherhood to whatever alter I need to. I was born for this moment. I will speak to dictators even it means in language of vagina.”
#FreeStellahNyanzi
#PushForStellaNyanzi
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THREAD ON THE ARREST OF
@sheena_sheenzy
!
#FreeSheena
#MeTooUganda
A Call for Release of Sheena Ahumuza Bagaine and Support in Face of Arrest and Suits Aimed at Silencing Victims of Rape
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"African 'liberated' states have never liberated women. It's been an edifice of male complicity engaged in pacification forever ... colonial, post-colonial, neoliberal, theocratic."-Prof. Amina Mama, Feminist scholar.
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Admitting extrajudicial killings by his units from Somalia to Kampala and thinks him calling anyone a terrorist makes them one without any judicial procedure 🤦🏾♀️
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‘Men of god’ and sexual abuse 🤝
The power for manipulate, violate and cover up is what they amass in the name of religion.
Renowned Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua took part in serial rape and abuse,
#BBCAfricaEye
has discovered.
Forced abortions and other atrocities are alleged by dozens of ex-followers of the charismatic preacher.
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“What prejudice do you suffer if you just let your next-door neighbour live in peace, if you let them do their job, let them identify as they, please? If they are gay, let them live…What prejudice do you suffer? None. Absolutely none. The air you breathe will not be any less.”
“Only two MPs voted against Uganda’s anti-LGBT bill, passed this week. We talk to one of them, Fox Odoi-Oywelowo” via
@openDemocracy
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Stella Nyanzi speaking at courrt
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Police in
#Uganda
are holding my friend, Kenyan journalist
@Kmohamed
, together with wife of
@nbstv
journalist
@SolomonSerwanjj
and other journalists. We call for their immediate release!
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Today
@HEBobiwine
together with Arua MP elect, Kassiano Wadri, Gerald Karuhanga (Ntungamo), Paul Mwiru (Jinja), form MP Mike Mabikke and 30 other Ugandans will be in court for their bail hearing.
#FreeBobiWine
#FreeArua33
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And huge thanks to Isaac Semakadde, Stella’s lawyer who’s has never backed off this task! Your fight is appreciated
#FreeStellaNyanzi
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Omg!
What in the misogyny is this?
What levels of embarrassment and sexism on display by Jeje Odongo, Uganda minister appearing at
#AfricaEUSummit
🙆🏿
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“Violence is not only when you are beaten in the streets. Violence is if you cannot live without fear. Violence is the fear that something could happen.” -
@clarekabale
✊🏿💜
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The short break is almost over but
#Casamance
is still bae!
Paradise is the south of Senegal
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Trinidad and Tobago just elected and swore in its first black women president! President Paula Mae Weeks, a retired judge.
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Girls didn’t just walk around during corona and got pregnant, right?
Retire this frame that only focus on victims and ‘visible’ impact of massive sexual abuse, not the root and full magnitude of what we are facing as a society. Most of this is statutory rape!
At least 2,300 school girls have conceived during coronavirus lockdown
#MonitorToons
|
#MonitorUpdates
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What a photo, what a fighter! Sumy SC these iconic!
With Stella Nyanzi and those stranded with no food and necessities ✊🏿🙌🏿
#covid19ug
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I thought I would put my excitement in a video!
Stella is free ✊🏿💪🏿 💃🏿
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Mansplaining feminism here. Those people’s energy was on point. You are yet to learn a thing.
A week ago i was invited in a female space to contribute about gender equality. Truth be told many were angered that i was there. The energy of
"Why is he here?" Swept me off the feet and i wondered the source anger. Nonetheless, i stayed and listened through.
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Image of
@HEBobiwine
with form Leader of Opposition in Parliament
@winniekiiza1
and Andrew Karamagi as he waits for his colleagues in an ambulance to start the long journey to Kampala.
Photo via Adrew Karamagi
#FreeBobiWine
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“Perhaps rage is something most Ugandans have learned to suppress rather than embrace.”-
@drstellanyanzi
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Congratulations
@Winnie_Byanyima
! Getting to zero HIV/AIDS is a fight Africa needs to still lead. And no better champion than you!
We stan! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 via
@ChimpReports
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Honored to be part of class of 2019 at
@Kennedy_School
executive program on Global Leadership and Public Policy for 21st Century in partnership with
@wef
Being part of the
@YGLvoices
fellowship has opened so many doors. I look forward 😍
#YouAreNotHereByAccident
#Gratitude
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Three-decade-statehouse-bred but can't even match a pedestrian thinking! Yamawe! The gods are doing their job for sure!
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Patriarchy is really a drag! Many women do terrible things to their children for the male gaze, male attention. Standing up for your child like this woman has done is then reduced to you still like your ex! Tbh patriarchy ill-prepares all to face dynamics of blended families.
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Important. I have had to walk back from places run/lead by white women in supposedly 'feminist work' because the emotional violence there will send you to the pits!
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Revisionism
The religious subjugation of African spirituality, to ‘cleanse the African’ and replace with colonial foreign religion cannot be here revisited like this!
Colonialism is a political, economic, religious and cultural project that is still going on as established
It's because the missionary and the colonizer were two different people. Kenyans love putting it as if they were one and the same. Especially with the whole " colonizers religion"..and yet sometimes the only similarity btn them was the fact that they were white.
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Akon's ventures do not have a place in the "moral economy" - an economy that is based on goodness, fairness, and justice.
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Class/capitalist oppression is not inevitable in Africa! We must find more ways to develop our lands that have community at heart not regurgitate oppression. As a Black person your dream can't be 'I want to be like the bazungu that own hills and hill of ranches'.
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