#african soldiers

[agentfascinateur]

Quand l'Afrique libéra la Provence 💜 👏🏼👏🏼

“Parmi les 250 000 soldats français qui débarquent en Provence, 80 % sont d’origine africaine, d'un point de vue géographique. Sans ces soldats africains, quel que soit leur statut ou leur origine, l'armée française n'aurait pas été en mesure de participer au débarquement de Provence”

Et ce sont les Africains aujourd'hui qui aident à libérer les Palestiniens. 👏🏼👏🏼

[longliveblackness]

1937 Portrait of the only surviving female warriors, who had fought against the French in 1895, Abomey, Dahomey Kingdom, Benin Republic.

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Retrato de 1937 de las guerreras sobrevivientes que lucharon contra los franceses en 1895. Abomey, Reino Dahomey, República de Benín.

[iamtheonlyexodus]

North west African muslim weaponry



[mimi-0007]

Buffalo soldiers

[thechromebucket]

Marvelous Mermay: The Star-Spangled Merman With A Plan

Happy Memorial Day, and thank you to all who've served.

[kemetic-dreams]

Fred McIntyre known as Devil's Man holds in his hands a portrait of the Kaiser framed with bullets that he took from a German Soldier

Colorized by Marina Amaral

Corporal Fred McIntyre served in World War I with the USA Army's 369th Infantry Regiment, a lavishly decorated regiment that was better known by its nickname: the Harlem Hellfighters. The Hellfighters, part of the New York National Guard, stood out for several reasons: uncommon courage, the exceptional ragtime-influenced brass band, and their Afroness. Only ten percent of the American soldiers were African.

In July 1918 they were fighting alongside the French along the Marne River. In fact, militarily they became French, as the 369th were integrated into the French Army. They wore hybrid uniforms (including the French Adrian helmet), carried Gallic rifles, and received French troop wine rations.

The Harlem Hellfighters accumulated more casualties on the Western Front than any other American regiment, but received numerous medals for their bravery. One member of the regiment, Henry Porter, nicknamed Black Death, was the first American to receive the prestigious Croix de Guerre, which was also awarded collectively to the entire 369th Regiment.

[ri4naaa]

i don't play genshin like that anymore but hoyoverse i am sick n tired of having PALE ASS MF CHARACTERS . after all these years somehow kaeya is still your darkest character. do better. include these cultures beyond music, names, and lore!!!

[wewerealwaysthere]

[africanamericanreports]

This MEMORIAL DAY ....

Let's not forget those Black soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for a nation that did not honor them and still do not today!!!

[revoltedstates]

Unidentified Federal soldier. USAHEC.

[chamerionwrites]

On the subject of being a Joseph Conrad hater, perhaps the most vicious thing I can say about him as a writer (one of the more damning things I can imagine saying about anyone as a writer) is that Heart of Darkness amounts to a more artful expression of Leopold II’s excuses on the rare occasions anyone could induce him to admit that anything untoward might be happening in the Congo at all

[blackmensuited]

[seohyun0306]

My father was born on June 16th 1976 in apartheid South Africa, the exact day of the Soweto uprising where around 170-700 school students were estimated to have been shot dead at a peaceful protest. My father’s family were welcoming a new baby into their family while a few hours away, hundreds of parents’ babies were shot dead. To my father’s family and my family, June 16th is not a day to be celebrated for his birth but a day of mourning whose impact has never decreased in all the 48 years since the massacre happened.

How many thousands of parents in Palestine, be it Gaza or the West Bank, have to grieve constantly for their babies getting massacred, imprisoned, tortured, shot and raped even on the days where they should be celebrating their births? Nearly everyday my asks are bombarded with anon hate and blatant disrespect, ignorance and misinformation about my country’s history, which I no longer bother to even entertain. Disrespecting and ignoring what is happening in Palestine is not only disrespectful to their thousands of brutal deaths at the hands of the iof, but also disrespectful towards every single South African death at the hands of the apartheid government.

There are no two countries as intrinsically connected like South Africa and Palestine and no two entities as disgustingly similar as the Israeli government and the South African apartheid government. On paper, South Africa has been free for 30 years, but in reality we will never be completely free until Palestine is too and Israel is crushed and banished into obscurity like our previous regime was.

[gregor-samsung]

La Miséricorde de la Jungle [The Mercy of the Jungle] (Joël Karekezi, 2018)

[kemetic-dreams]