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itskevingardiner: true.

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itskevingardiner:

true.

holaafrica: MY PEOPLE HOLAA NEEDS TRANSLATORS! We are looking...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:34:05 +0000

holaafrica:

MY PEOPLE HOLAA NEEDS TRANSLATORS!

We are looking for people to translate the various articles we have published into any African language. Yoruba, Swahili, Xhosa, Banda, French, Portuguese, Creole or even Arabic.

This is an awesome way of sneaking onto the site without having to let your…creative juices flow. We will give you all the love and credit! We need to spread the word in lots of different types of words. We need to spread the love in as many languages as we possibly can. Lets get on it.

If you are interested email us on: holaafricaonline@gmail.comand also take a look around the various HOLAA articles and figure out which ones you would like to/be able to translate.

LETS DO THIS!

“I don’t think the child in this photo knew what had just...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:32:36 +0000

“I don’t think the child in this photo knew what had just happened to him or knew that his father and himself were the only survivors of a large-caliber artillery round that crashed through his house. His mother and two other family members lost their lives.”

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simply-war: Iraq War. Mike Moore.

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simply-war:

Iraq War. Mike Moore.

non-westernhistoricalfashion: Bangle Place of origin: Zanzibar,...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:15:26 +0100

non-westernhistoricalfashion:

Bangle

Place of origin: Zanzibar, Tanzania

Date: 19th century

Silver, with filigree decoration and bosses of cast work

Gallery label from the V&A :Throughout history the Zanzibar archipelago has served as a staging post for Indian Ocean traders and explorers. In 1698 it became part of the overseas holdings of Oman and a sultanate of Omani origin established its capital there in the mid 19th century. This distinctive history has had a marked impact on Zanzibari arts and culture which reveal Persian, Arab, Indian, Portuguese, British and African influences.

This hinged silver bracelet is decorated with rows of conical bosses of different sizes and bands of filigree work. A label on the bracelet notes that it was ‘made by the natives at Zanzibar by order of the late Sultan, and brought to England by his friend the late Monsieur J.B. Camosin’. The Sultan may have been Hamoud bin Mohammed (1853-1902). Zanzibar became a British protectorate in 1890. Hamoud had close ties with Britain: he was decorated by Queen Victoria for his role in ending Zanzibar’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and his son and heir, Ali bin Hamud, was educated in England.

dynamicafrica: September 12th marks the anniversary of the...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:12:09 +0100

dynamicafrica:

September 12th marks the anniversary of the death of one of South Africa’s most prolific and pioneering anti-Apartheid activists, Stephen Bantu Biko.

Biko rose to prominence as a student leader whilst at university, establishing the all-black and pro-black South African Students Organisation (SASO). He later became the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in the early 70s, an ideological revolution aimed at the uplifting of black culture in the face of the systematic and racially oppressive system that was Apartheid.

The growth of the BCM threatened the structure of Apartheid so much so that in 1973 Biko was banned, by the South African government, from taking part in any political activity and was confined to the magisterial district of King William’s Town, his birth place.

In spite of being banned, Biko continued to advance the work of Black Consciousness. For instance, he established an Eastern Cape branch of BCP and through BCP he organised literacy and dressmaking classes and health education programmes. Quite significantly, he set up a health clinic outside King William’s Town for poor rural Blacks who battled to access city hospitals.

In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with the prospects of national revolution becoming increasingly real, security police detained Biko, the outspoken student leader, on August 18th. At this time Biko had begun studying law by mail through the University of South Africa/UNISA. He was thirty years old and was reportedly extremely fit when arrested. He was taken to Port Elizabeth but was later transferred to Pretoria where he died in detention under mysterious circumstances in 1977.

Due to local and international outcry his death prompted an inquest which at first did not adequately reveal the circumstances surrounding his death. Police alleged that he died from a hunger strike and independent sources said he was brutally murdered by police. Although his death was attributed to “a prison accident,” evidence presented during the 15-day inquest into Biko’s death revealed otherwise. During his detention in a Port Elizabeth police cell he had been chained to a grill at night and left to lie in urine-soaked blankets. He had been stripped naked and kept in leg-irons for 48 hours in his cell. A blow in a scuffle with security police led to him suffering brain damage by the time he was driven naked and manacled in the back of a police van to Pretoria, where, on 12 September 1977 he died.

Two years later a South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) disciplinary committee found there was no prima facie case against the two doctors who had treated Biko shortly before his death. Dissatisfied doctors, seeking another inquiry into the role of the medical authorities who had treated Biko shortly before his death, presented a petition to the SAMDC in February 1982, but this was rejected on the grounds that no new evidence had come to light. Biko’s death caught the attention of the international community, which increased the pressure on the South African government to abolish its detention policies and called for an international probe on the cause of his death. Even close allies of South Africa, Britain and the United States of America, expressed deep concern about the death of Biko. They also joined the increasing demand for an international probe.

It took eight years and intense pressure before the South African Medical Council took disciplinary action. On 30 January, 1985, the Pretoria Supreme Court ordered the SAMDC to hold an inquiry into the conduct of the two doctors who treated Steve Biko during the five days before he died. Judge President of the Transvaal, Justice W G Boshoff, said in a landmark judgment that there was prima facie evidence of improper or disgraceful conduct on the part of the “Biko” doctors in a professional respect. This serves to illustrate that so many years after Biko’s death his influence lived on.

He is survived by his two sons.

simply-war: Street vigilantism begins to grip the capital as a...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:07:22 +0100

simply-war:

Street vigilantism begins to grip the capital as a group of Muslim men butcher a Christian Madurese accused of breaking a window of a mosque in central Jakarta. Indonesia. 1998. John Stanmeyer.

nezua: maddow, bringing the sense.

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:10:11 +0100

nezua:

maddow, bringing the sense.

nevver: Aldous Huxley

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nevver:

Aldous Huxley

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The MLK that’s never quoted.

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The MLK that’s never quoted.

heartsthatdaywilltremble: allaboutpalestine: And they wonder...

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allaboutpalestine:

And they wonder why we grow up hating them

yeah