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I wrote this eBook in 2023 - ‘DRC & The Cobalt Crossfire’
The socioeconomic impact of the cobalt dependence from the world on Congo DRC 🇨🇩
It highlights how the U.S, U.K, China, Rwanda, everyone wants a piece.
available for £3.99 for a limited time
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I’ve had to teach my mum more people skills this morning. She just told me that her colleague at work asked her “why don’t you look happy” and she responded with “do I come here to show my happiness?” LOOOOOL
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This story warms my heart. Back in 1997, Princess Diana met Angolan🇦🇴 minefield survivor Sandra Tigica and arranged a prosthetic for her.
22 years later, Prince Harry reunited with Sandra, who is now 38 years old, married with a daughter. She named her daughter ‘Diana’ 🥺🤍
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This woman spoke truth about this UK. Nice that it’s coming from her so raw
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Worst type of black man, making the black woman the butt of the joke to impress others. Someone tell this coon that the hair talk is tired 😴
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Is my mic on? 🎤
There’s a genocide that’s been happening in Congo 🇨🇩 since King Leopold II 🇧🇪 invaded us. The world turned a blind eye then and it continues to do so... Can you lend your voice and share this
#CongolsBleeding
#congogenocide
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If you watched the Congo vs CIV AFCON game last night you’d have noticed that the DRC fans were rarely put on camera. That’s because the crowd was full of ‘FREE CONGO’ posters and people raising awareness about the genocide. Trying to silence us even through football. 🇨🇩
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28 women in the Congo were buried alive.... can we make more noise about this ?
#FREECONGO
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Rest in Peace to Chris Kaba 🕊🙏🏾
A young black man gunned down by police in the UK, he was unarmed. While the headlines drown us with news of a monarch who died at age 96, Chris won’t get to see age 25.
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Remember that if your phone is still up and running, and you care about the fact that
#CongolsBleeding
you could spare a thought for those who risk and lose their lives everyday to mine coltan in 🇨🇩 for less than you can buy a snack for. And not buy a brand new iPhone from Apple.
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Wow my sis is so cut up right now cos a 20 year old apprentice at her workplace sat and told her about alll her life dreams and goals on Friday, and today she died in a car accident with her mum. Life is actually so mad, you can be here today and gone tomorrow 😔🥀
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This is the impact of agreements with countries like the US and China over our mining. It’s a disgrace that Congo signed the sicomines deal with China and nowhere in that deal did China agree to provide a mining workforce for it… our children don’t belong in mines
SLAVES: 40,000 child slaves in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars.
h/t
@JamesMelville
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Congolese WOMEN are leading marches of thousands in Kisangani despite being violently beaten. The Mukegwe foundation is backing them and they are protesting against unprosecuted sexual assault crimes, conflict and war crimes in the eastern region of Congo🇨🇩
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THE MISEDUCATION OF GANDHI... FOR AFRICANS.
What schools didn’t teach you about Mahatmar Gandhi.
A THREAD
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Just watched this Congolese girl on TikTok telling a story about some girls she knew that were all friends… 1 of them secured a top job and the other friends basically said let’s go out and celebrate it… did 1 of them not try to poison the friend drink when she went toilet!?!
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THE AFRICAN ISLAND WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE, AND MEN CANT SAY NO.
A look into the Matriarchy of the Bijagò in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
A THREAD
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Calling Congolese people colonisers. Has to be the worst joke of the century
Another day and another foreign mob on the march in London. This time it’s a Free Congo demo.
The native population of London now stands at 36%. It’s London that needs freeing from colonisers like these.
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You hate foreigners, ok. But you’ve made peace with a literal white invasion in your country. I can’t really sympathise with this level of xenophobia because it’s aimed at other Africans, and not the actual colonisers. It’s disgraceful
🇿🇦 "I hate foreigners and the government is doing nothing."
#BBCAfricaEye
investigates the rise of xenophobia in South Africa and the violent targeting of migrants.
🎥 Watch the full film, "Fear and Loathing in South Africa" here:
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She’s got a point though. I’m slaving off and you want me to smile through it lol why
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Arabella defo changed her tune once she realised ppl actually respect Yewande’s feelings and the angry black girl agenda weren’t running. Now she’s trying to pin it all on Danny 😐
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Guys I’m actually stunned my birthday isn’t till next week but I came into work today and there was a brand new pair of Dr Martens on my desk😭😭😭 for me😭 I always say how I love DMs, little did I know my manager son gets a discount and they did a collection to get me a pair 😩
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Congo quarantining people from Europe tryna bring their virus is music to my ears. We’re putting ourselves first finally
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Congolese music is not classed as Afrobeats and shouldn’t be mixed up. Two complete different genres. Not all music and artists that come out of Africa is doing Afrobeats, people act like they don’t know this
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British colonialism. They captured this child from his fathers kingdom and brought him back to UK. He died at 18 and they then buried him in Windsor Castle like some prize possession? REFUSED to return his body… now they’ve returned a piece of hair?
A lock of hair from Prince Alemayehu, a young Ethiopian prince, who died aged 18, in 1879 has been returned to UK representatives of Ethiopia.
Prince was captured by British soldiers after invading the fortress of his father, Emperor Tewodros II.
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If labour are serious about this 4 day working week, next general election you will see me on Sky News with my own banner
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Tulisa Contostavlos still hasn’t told us why her dad was born and raised in Congo DR
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These are peoples homes, businesses, their lives 💔 the Congolese govt has a duty to protect the people of Goma from natural disasters like this. These images are shocking
#PrayForGoma
#PrayForCongo
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they were even going to force feed the friend the drink until she herself in an outburst admitted that she tried to poison her friend because it’s always her that secures good jobs!😭 like WHAT?!!! How evil and jealous
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What do Congolese people want? We want the rebel forces from neighbouring countries to LEAVE OUR PEOPLE ALONE. We want them to stop killing our people for our resources. We want CONGOLESE ownership of our mines. If we give the world mobile phones, we want something BACK. PEACE!
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Being ‘fiery’ is only admired in a woman when you’re not a black woman.
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Now I see why some of these guys hate Russel Wilson so much, you can’t fathom how he loves and raises a child that isn’t his that much, isn’t it?
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It’s Congolese Indpendence Month🇨🇩and we need to speak about this man. Patrice Emery Lumumba.
“An African man with powerful enemies” - A THREAD.
[RIP to a true African great]
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I make it a point to start conversations with the aunty who does cleaning in my work office because people really act like she’s not there… not even a simple good morning after she’s there cleaning their musty coffee cups. Me & her will be chatting & I can tell she appreciates
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Thinking about it God really saved that girls life in this story. The drunk man was apparently so heavily drunk, you’d probably not even take the time to listen to anything he had to say. Thank God she listened and even caused a scene about what he told her the friend had done 🙃
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#CongolsBleeding
was trending and now it’s not anymore. If you see this tweet please retweet to show solidarity with us🇨🇩
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I really want England to win tonight for this guy especially. Please win it for him😭🏴
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‘CAPOEIRA’ : THE BAKONGO SLAVE RESISTANCE TURNED MARTIAL ART
The African history of Capoeira, today an Afro-Brazilian martial art, but Bakongo 🇦🇴 by nature.
A THREAD
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The fact that Coronavirus vaccine testing is taking place in Africa is sickening. Africa doesn’t even have half the cases that the UK/Europe/USA or China has.
AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT GUINEA PIGS
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The story is an extreme case, but just reiterates that sometimes you have to reserve your happiness around people. People will really go so far because they are jealous of you.
This is the TikTok! If you understand Lingala
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He THOUGHT he could hop in their car and try intimidate them for money. Knowing full well this is against the law for police to do now. This Congolese 🇨🇩 lady said OK, TODAY YOU’RE COMING WITH ME 😭😭😭😭
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[8] (2/2)... two South African scholars who published a book exposing the prejudice views on black Africans that Gandhi upheld.
In Ghana, more Africans have taken a stand against him by removing a statue of him from the University of Ghana campus.
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN THERE
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the friend (culprit) then immediately got defensive and started cussing the drunk man for filth persuading the friend that she didn’t do such. Until other people around told the friend to take a sip of the drink herself and prove she didn’t contaminate it
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A drunk man stopped the girl as she was on her way back from the toilet and was stumbling over his words but told her not to drink the drink. He told her that her friend put something in there (2/3)
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@KimMetalGuitars
Yeap that’s right, us Angolans have always been drawn to Diana for the exposure she gave the country’s mine issue, she literally made the world stop and watch. despite so many people questioning her motives behind it. She saved many Angolan lives by doing that work🙏🏾
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Appreciating Patricia Nzolantima, a boss lady who owns the 1st luxury cab business in Kinshasa🇨🇩
Her pink rides provide customers with snacks, drinks and even WiFi!
“You can’t reduce Congo to rape and wars...time for Congolese women to get a piece of that wealth”. AMAZING🙌🏾😍
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Been watching these Americans react to Congolese 🇨🇩 music vids for the past week and they just been making me crease 😭😭😂 good music transcends all barriers
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Please guys, please, I’m actually begging you now… please stop telling Congolese people how to react to that mess, and telling us “what we should do to raise awareness”. We stay fighting for our people even when no one else bats an eyelid. It’s a slap in the face. Allow me.
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Before you want to debate that the whole UK isnt racist. You lot did the same to Stormzy & that’s why I used that exact same phrase. UK is “100% racist” = no debate about it.
Furthermore, for a lot of racist white people, being called racist is worse than actually being racist
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[3] - Gandhi believed in the ‘Aryan brotherhood’, which meant he complied with the idea of white supremacy, but felt that Indians are higher up than blacks.
He was ok with the white, elitist, dominant position in society, so long as Indians come after and blacks come last.
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Never seen Ikenna talk about Indiyah’s lips or eyes. I’ve seen the real him now, get him out
#LoveIsland
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A HIDDEN HOLOCAUST OF AFRICA — The German massacre of the Herero & Nama People.
This is what the German Reich did to Africans, before the Jews.
A THREAD
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In all this it looks like it’s me who needs to learn a thing or two from my mum 💀 boundaries are important
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CONGOLESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING A GENOCIDE, CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, USE OF OUR COLTAN TO CREATE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY, CHILDREN MINING COLTAN, ARMED REBELS FROM NEIGHBOURING REGIONS ... FOR OVER A CENTURY.
RETWEET TO SPREAD AWARENESS.
#CONGOGENOCIDE
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Kagame is trying to occupy the east of Congo and eventually take ownership of that part of our land. That’s why M23 keeps advancing forward into our country and people keep having to be displaced. Soon the east of Congo will become no man’s land and that’s what Rwanda want.
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Laughing at someone saying Congolese people are “scared of Steve Jobs” on a popular UK podcast is crazy. There’s no way you people have Congolese friends. My friends could never.
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Some girls get way too happy when another girl is being disrespected on here. Especially if she’s got something they envy.
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Mariam Musa said her man couldn’t level up so he cheated with his ex, the game 🥺
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I’m sorry the tea just keeps pouring this lady spoke nothing but facts. Here’s a pic of how many MPs showed up to discuss NHS pay rises last week....but clapping helps right? Capitalism at its finest.
“Put your lives on the line for us but we can’t ensure your families can eat”
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[1] - This thread is nothing to do with Gandhi as a global peace icon & the father of Indian independence; not disregarding the achievements he made for Indian people... but Gandhi was not a friend to Africans.
This is not taught about him, we have to ask ourselves why! (1/2)
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[7] Through school I was taught about Gandhi but never this, why? Our western education systems continue to pull the wall over Africans’ eyes.
His racism against Africans has almost been purposely written out of history. Until a book by Ashwin & Desai was released in 2008 (1/2)
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No wait
@HillaryClinton
I just have to send for you again while I’m here cos I can’t believe how bright and audacious you are. You trying to be a saviour for Africans!? YOU? Your husband took $650,000 from a war-torn DRC🇨🇩 in 2001 just to keep an oppressive president in power.
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@Chinesesam123
This is bullying and nothing less. Your shamelessly putting it on twitter like people are supposed to be impressed
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INSIDE BRITAIN’S COLONIAL MIND
— Opening a dialogue about the colonial atrocities of the British empire in Africa & the British imperialistic mindset.
A THREAD
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Remember the groundbreaking film Black Panther? Just in case it went over anyone’s head..
AMAZING AFRICAN CULTURE FEATURING IN WAKANDA - A THREAD
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I’m so glad the BBC have covered this. Finally a real insight into what people in Congo go through
“Me, pray? What does that change? No. I have to fight.”
Meet La Lucha, the young activists fighting for a better DR Congo. This is a movement they are prepared to risk their lives for.
#BBCAfricaEye
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[9] - I’ve written a more detailed article/ blog post about this with sources titled The Miseducation of Mahatmar Gandhi... For Africans.
check that out for more insight on these points.
Africans, in the spirit of
#BlackLivesMatter
let’s wise up ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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@RayBoogie_
Nooo but it’s was in a different context, they were speaking about looking young. He is the one that started with “it’s my hair though” and we alllll know what that means 😴
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[4] - So, Gandhi audaciously spoke of segregation of blacks and Indians in South Africa. He was accused of working with the British colonial government to promote the racial segregation.
Whilst campaigning for Indian rights in SA, he made way for more struggles of black people.
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If there’s something that 2020 has really drummed into my head, it’s that everyone going through something and you’d just never know
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There’s a silent genocide in Congo and the world keeps turning a blind eye. We need our voices heard.
#CongoIsBleeding
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Think it’s so disturbing that people are trying to run that ‘coloniser’ and ‘white saviour’ line on Princess Diana helping that Angolan woman... she literally changed her life for the better? Am I meant to say she’s a villain because she is white?
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This bright gentleman explaining why making jokes about the Congolese genocide, laughing along like a hyena and caping for the guys who did it makes you… well, I’ll just let you listen to him instead. Thanks to this guy for his solidarity 👏🏾❤️
#FREECONGO
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Lol, I quit my job on Monday because I felt there was a culture clash and didn’t feel like someone like myself could thrive in that environment. Took a big risk but kept the faith in myself and I’ve been offered a job today. In the same week😍 only God
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There’s also a crisis for Congolese women — Ebola aid workers employed by the WHO, UNISEF, OXFAM, MSF are sexually assaulting and abusing them. They are telling women they cannot work jobs if they do not allow sex. They are forcefully impregnating and infecting Congolese women💔
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[2] - 2/2 ... In 1893 Gandhi went to South Africa, before this he was known as a humanitarian lawyer and a nationalist politician. What many do not know about is his racist ideologies of Africans in 🇿🇦 whilst simultaneously trying to fight British colonial rule for Indians.
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[5] Here are some of the disturbing statements Gandhi has made about black africans in SA
“Indians have no war dances”
“Indians are a little better if at all, than savages of native Africa”
“Must withdraw kaffirs” - a word he used for the non-muslim black Africans
WHO KNEW?
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Really like how Akon spoke about Congolese music in Zeze Millz’s interview… basically said Congo contributed so much to African music because of the way they dance, and they brought along fashion, only difference was they weren’t speaking in English at all…
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Like no guys I am really spun, you brought your non-Congolese self, not even African either, to tell Congolese people how they should react to something so DISGUSTING? Every Congolese person needs to stop endorsing
@ZezeMillz
- she’s also disrespected us to the highest level
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AFRICA’s STOLEN ARTEFACTS: MISUSE IN MUSEUMS
A look into the misplacement of African artefacts across the Western world, and the reluctance to give them back.
A THREAD
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[5] - Bijagos men keep themselves fit and healthy, to increase their chances of being chosen as a husband by a woman.
The elders believe that divorce rates will stay low if women continue to decide as “the choice of a woman is much more stable”.
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Sudan NEEDS attention. Ethnic cleansing, commissioned by their own government.
If you don’t know what’s happening in Sudan I urge you to read this to understand where this violence stems from.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#FREESUDAN
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[6] - Once a woman becomes a mother among the Bijagos, she is given the maximum respect and gets immense prestige. The birth of a female is especially significant, given that she will become a powerful figure in the community.
Women rule: Economy, Welfare and Law.
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You see that? This was nowhere to be seen in the live broadcasting of that game. Disgraceful.
#FREECONGO
🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
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