#Ghana independence day

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HAPPY GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY OOOO!!!!🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY GHANA!

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Ghana’s 68th Independence Day celebration: There will be no grand parade as the government announces the activities for the national celebration

The government of Ghana has revealed the plans for the 68th Independence Day anniversary celebrations. As previously mentioned by President John Dramani Mahama, the 2025 Independence Day will be observed in a more subdued manner due to the country’s challenging economic conditions. Consequently, the 2025 Independence Day festivities will not feature the large-scale national, regional, and…

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Neocolonialism is alive and well in Africa. The issues of governments starting in debt and opportunistic countries jumping in and offering loans continues. It's also the same countries they're just different governments/economic systems.

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The local population in countries that export bananas typically eat different varieties grown primarily by small farmers. The ones for the Americans and the Europeans, Cavendish variety bananas, are grown in huge, monoculture plantations that are susceptible to disease. The banana industry consumes more agrichemicals than any other in the world, asides from cotton. Most plantations will spend more on pesticides than on wages. Pesticides are sprayed by plane, 85% of which does not land on the bananas and instead lands on the homes of workers in the surrounding area and seeps into the groundwater. The results are cancers, stillbirths, and dead rivers.

The supermarkets dominate the banana trade and force the price of bananas down. Plantations resolve this issue by intensifying and degrading working conditions. Banana workers will work for up to 14 hours a day in tropical heat, without overtime pay, for 6 days a week. Their wages will not cover their cost of housing, food, and education for their children. On most plantations independent trade unions are, of course, suppressed. Contracts are insecure, or workers are hired through intermediaries, and troublemakers are not invited back.

Who benefits most from this arrangement? The export value of bananas is worth $8bn - the retail value of these bananas is worth $25bn. Here's a breakdown of who gets what from the sale of banana in the EU.

On average, the banana workers get between 5 and 9% of the total value, while the retailers capture between 36 to 43% of the value. So if you got a bunch of bananas at Tesco (the majority of UK bananas come from Costa Rica) for 95p, 6.65p would go to the banana workers, and 38p would go to Tesco.

Furthermore, when it comes to calculating a country's GDP (the total sum of the value of economic activity going on in a country, which is used to measure how rich or poor a country is, how fast its economy is 'growing' and therefore how valuable their currency is on the world market, how valuable its government bonds, its claim on resources internationally…etc), the worker wages, production, export numbers count towards the country producing the banana, while retail, ripening, tariffs, and shipping & import will count towards the importing country. A country like Costa Rica will participate has to participate in this arrangement as it needs ‘hard’ (i.e. Western) currencies in order to import essential commodities on the world market.

So for the example above of a bunch of Costa Rican bananas sold in a UK supermarket, 20.7p will be added to Costa Rica’s GDP while 74.3p will be added to the UK’s GDP. Therefore, the consumption of a banana in the UK will add more to the UK’s wealth than growing it will to Costa Rica’s. The same holds for Bangladeshi t-shirts, iPhones assembled in China, chocolate made with cocoa from Ghana…it’s the heart of how the capitalism of the ‘developed’ economy functions. Never ending consumption to fuel the appearance of wealth, fuelled by the exploitation of both land and people in the global south.

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Rüppell's vulture also called Rüppell's griffon vulture, named after Eduard Rüppell, is a large bird of prey in the genus Gyps which is native throughout the sahel and eastern Africa including the countries of Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, The Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Here they tend to inhabit grasslands, mountains, and open woodland. Rüppell's vultures are diurnal and very social birds, roosting, nesting, and feeding in large flocks. They spend much of their time flying at great altitudes, using strong winds and thermals to efficiently soar they are known to regular cruise at upwards of 20,000ft (6,000m) above the ground with some known to go as high as 37,000ft (11,300m) making them the highest flying bird. These vultures locate food by sight only, and often follow herds of animals. Once they find a carcass they swoop down, land a little way off, then bound forward with wings spread and their long neck outstretched. Even amongst old world vultures, Rüppell's vultures are specialized feeders with a spiked tongue and strong beak they can strip flesh with ease, and feed upon pelts, hides, and even the bones themselves.  Reaching around 33 to 41in (85 -103cms) long, 14 – 20lbs in weight, with a 7.5-8.6ft (2.26 -2.6m) wingspan. They are one of the largest vultures in Africa, both sexes sport mottled brown or black feathering overall with a whitish-brown underbelly and thin, dirty-white fluff covering the head and neck. The base of the neck has a white collar, the eye is yellow or amber, the crop patch deep brown. The head does not have feathers. This species of vulture is considered to be monogamous, forming lifelong breeding pairs. They nest on cliffs in colonies up to a 1,000 strong. After courtship a pair will work together to build a nest using sticks, grass, and leaves that they have gathered or stolen from other nests, here the mother will lay 1 egg. Both parents share in incubation of their egg over a period of 55 days. Once the chick hatches, both parents will feed and tend to it for about 150 days when it fledges. Young remain dependent on their parents after fledging, not reaching independence until the next breeding season. Under ideal conditions a ruppells vulture may live up to 50 years.

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Queen Yaa Asantewaa

How did a determined queen lead her people in a bold stand against colonial forces? Discover the inspiring story of Queen Yaa Asantewaa, the fierce leader who became a symbol of resistance in the fight for Ashanti independence. Born in 1840, Yaa Asantewaa was a queen mother of the Ashanti Empire in present-day Ghana. When British colonial forces exiled the Ashanti king and demanded the sacred Golden Stool, symbolizing the Ashanti nation’s soul, Yaa Asantewaa rose to defend her people. In 1900, she led the Ashanti in the War of the Golden Stool, rallying her people with powerful speeches that ignited their resolve to resist. As a commander, she organized and led her forces in a fierce battle against the British, who were stunned by her leadership and the strength of Ashanti resistance. Though the Ashanti eventually faced defeat and Yaa Asantewaa was exiled, her bravery and defiance left a lasting legacy as a symbol of resistance against oppression.

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End of Empire chronicles the last days of British rule around the globe, through the remarkably candid reminiscences of both colonizers and the colonized. The series, a Granada Television production, uses old newsreel film and interviews with former British and colonial officials.

The Beginning of the End - How the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II became a symbol of the British Empire's decline.

India, Engine of War

India, the Muslim Card

Divide and Quit

Palestine - The end of British rule in Palestine and the creation of Israel.

Iran - How the British Empire helped orchestrate the downfall of Mohammad Mosaddegh and returning the Shah to power, in exchange for Iranian oil.

Egypt - Britain took Egypt as protectorate to build the Suez Canal. Nasser decides to take everything back.

Aden - Strategic importance of Aden at the end of the Suez Canal and its transformation into communist Yemen.

Cyprus - Last days of British rule in Cyprus.

The Gold Coast - How Ghana became the first African colony to gain independence and spur the "Winds of Change".

Kenya - The African colony of Kenya is rocked with rebellion by the Mau Mau.

The Rider and the Horse - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland's failed attempt to build a white state in black Africa.

Rhodesia - The Federation's collapse leads to black-run nation states, with Northern Rhodesia resisting change.

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On This Day In History

July 1st, 1867: Canada proclaims independence.

July 1st, 1960: Ghana becomes a republic.

July 1st, 1962: Rwanda and Burundi gain independence (from Belgian occupation).

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Patrice Lumumba was the first elected Prime Minister of the Congo. He ascended to power in the Congo on June 30, 1960, the date of Congo’ s independence from Belgium. Within ten weeks of being elected, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup. He was subsequently imprisoned and assassinated on January 17, 1961 by Western powers (United States, Belgium, France, England and the United Nations) in cahoots with local leaders such as Moise Tshombe and Joseph Desire Mobutu.

Lumumba is a member of the Tetela ethnic group. He was born on July 2, 1925, in Katako-Kombe in the Sunkuru district of the Kasai Province. Growing up, Lumumba attended a Protestant Missionary school as well as a Catholic missionary school and became a part of the educated elite called évolués. Lumumba contributed to the Congolese press through poems and other writings. His occupations included a postal clerk in Kinshasa and an accountant in Kisangani. Lumumba’s organizational involvement were varied. He served as head of a trade union of government employees, he was active in the Belgian Liberal Party and in 1958, Lumumba founded the Congolese National Movement (MNC in French). Also in 1958, he was invited to the first All-African People’s Conference in Accra, Ghana, organized by Kwame Nkrumah. He met nationalists and pan-africanists from various African countries and became a member of the permanent organization set up by the conference.

Lumumba’s party won national elections in May of 1960 which led to his ascendancy to Prime Minister on June 30, 1960. Read more on Lumumba>>

Lumumba’s Independence Day Speech Lumumba’s Last Letter to his Wife

Reading List Congo My Country by Patrice Lumumba Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom by Patrice Lumumba The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte Rise and Fall of Patrice Lumumba by Thomas Kanza Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961 Translated by Helen R. Lane. Ed. Jean Van Lierde

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August 17, 1887 Happy birthday Marcus

PAN-AFRICANIST MARCUS GARVEY

Iconic Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey was born on this day 17th August in St Ann's Bay, Jamaica in 1887.

In his 52 years on earth he became one of the most influential Pan-Africans to ever walk the earth. He inspired some of our favourites like Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X, whose parents were Garveyites.

Garvey was a political activist, publisher, journalist and orator. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), a Pan-African organisation with branches in many countries.

However, his dedication to African liberation during heightened racial oppression in the US put the arrow on his back. Due to his massive influence throughout the Americas and beyond, he was a target for soon-to-be FBI director J Edgar Hoover.

He was tasked with destroying Garvey's mass movement and, in 1920, sent an undercover agent to infiltrate the UNIA-ACL. It led to Garvey serving jail time and sunk hopes of using his Black Star Line steamship to migrate Africans in America back to their ancestral home.

Despite this, Garvey was unwavering in his calls for a strong, sovereign Africa and for Africans to unite.

It had a profound influence on independence struggles on the continent. Ghana, one of the first states to become independent in Africa, placed the black star, popularised by Garvey, in the middle of their country's flag. Despite joining the ancestors 84 years ago his contributions to Africa and African people worldwide have been long-lasting.