Dropping this gem here today from Kwame Ture’s speech in 1967🫶🏾 “In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” - Kwame Ture

Portrait of a woman from Segheneyti, Eritrea (ca. 1898-1903) photo by Captain Errardo of Aichelburg

A woman adorned with gold ornaments, Mopti region, Mali (1989) From “Gold of Africa. Jewellery and Ornaments from Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal” by Timothy F. Garrard Photography by M. Renadeau.

Novelist Chinua Achebe photographed with copies of his earliest written novel ‘Things Fall Apart’. Enugu, Nigeria, 1959. 📷 Eliot Elisofon

The flight crew of Air Mali photographed in Tombouctou, Mali (1971) 🇲🇱 by Eliot Elisofon

words by malcom x

Miriam Makeba in an interview with American journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, reads an excerpt from her autobiography titled,‘Miriam Makeba: My Story’ published in 1988.

An excerpt from the journal article ‘What Nigerian Independence Means’ by Edward K. Weaver (1961), p2.

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia hosts Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Madame Fathia Nkrumah on their visit to his palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1958). photo by Drum Magazine

My fellow Africans Sudan must TREND in all African countries. We can do this. Let’s do it #SudanWar .

African leaders are to Sudan what Arab states are to Gaza. Silent spectators waiting to be summoned for vague talks and agreements by the same powers arming the genocide. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Every time there is a matter pertaining to the region of Africa, we are shown again and again that the world does not regard our lives and our voices do not matter. Every time, we are reminded that we must be the ones to write and amplify our own stories and suffering.

Portrait of a couple. Bamako, Mali (1954-57) Photographed by Seydou Keïta

Dakar, Senegal. July, 1955. 📸 Philip Curtain

now this is how you issue a statement, straightforward and precise

i hate how accurate this is😭

shoutouts to the real og

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. There was no one like you. There is no one like you. There will be no one like you.

Do yourself a favour and give this listen. A compilation of some of Kwame Nkrumah’s most important speeches that still hold great relevance today. Greatest. African. Ever.