#black in europe

[passportkings]

Sexiest Black Women in Europe: 7 places to find, meet and date extraordinary mates.

Europe is a continent renowned for its rich history, diverse cultures, and breathtaking landscapes. While traditionally known for its ethnically homogeneous societies, Europe has experienced significant demographic shifts over the years. These changes have led to the emergence of vibrant communities with African and African American heritage. Meeting black women in Europe has become almost as…

[coldcoffee18]

European Summer

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

24th August 1991: Ukrainians celebrate their declaration of independence. X

The majority of people in every region of Ukraine voted to break free from the Soviet Union.

[laesposarica]

[gemsofgreece]

Photo by greekcatwalks on Instagram, taken in Astypálea island.

[snototter]

A black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) in Mousa, Shetland, UK

by Gary Faulkner

[vintage-russia]

Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina,Saint Petersburg (1907)

Photography by Alfred Eberling (1872-1951)

[wgm-beautiful-world]

BLACK ROSES. Endemic and growing only in the Halfeti district of Şanlıurfa in TÜRKIYE

[illustratus]

Studies into the Past by Laurent Grasso

[allthingseurope]

Sozopol, Bulgaria (by Neven Myst)

[originalartblog]

pamper tiny chuuya tooo pleaseeeee (also can i see tiny verlaine and rimbaud) 🙏

I tinified them :)

[whitewomendreams]

[satakentia]

Old Bridge Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

by Thorsten Hecht

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Viktor Schramm (Romanian, 1865-1929) Dame am Spinett, ca.1900

[vintageeurope]

Lysefjord, Norway 1904

[missmayhemvr]

Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.