#places in africa

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[bestmoviereviewplace]

Top 10 Most Beautiful Travel Destinations Africa that Should be Visited

Top 10 Most Beautiful Travel Destinations Africa that Should be Visited

Top 10 Most Beautiful Travel Destinations Africa that Should be Visited – Travel Ideas Continent Africa does save a lot of diversity of flora and fauna to the largest desert in the world. The African continent is home to large cat species and gorillas. This continent is so natural that so many national parks are very beautiful and wild. Here we present top 10 most beautiful travel destinations…

[visitheworld]

Cape Town /South Africa (by Jan Keller).

[ms-hells-bells]

watching female muslim athletes competing in black wrist to ankle and head coverings in 30C (86F) high humidity french heat when even athletes wearing barely anything have been passing out and throwing up :(

[tinseltina]

trying to make fanart of leona from @kiame-sama's humans are extinct twst au (warning it is a yandere au and 18+ so minors DNI)

[lyss-sketchbox]

At first I didn't fully grasp how horrible it is for the Natlan characters' skin color to not be black. I thought it was just Sumeru all over again, not every person from [insert irl culture] is black, maybe there will be black characters in the future, HYV is a chinese company it was probably not gonna be changed, etc.

Then i find out that even the CN and KR community is pissed... and there is a petition for HYV to fix their designs....

The thing that finally made me realize is a post somewhere showing a google search of 'Kinich'... the Maya sun god... and its taken over by QUITE LITERALLY white anime boys

[bookishfeylin]

I know you don't usually do these kinds of posts, but you're probably one of the most implicated in black history month people that I follow so I wanted to ask you, as I already value your opinions in Acotar, what do you think of the documentary where actual historians claim Cleopatra was a black woman? Lately, this has been a pretty active topic on my fyp on TikTok, and I wanted to know a black woman's perspective on this.

Thank you in advance, and if you usually don't answer these questions or don't want to answer this one, I'll totally understand, and there's no problem at all.

I didn’t know there was a new documentary out, but when I saw the name Cleopatra I automatically sighed because I knew what was coming. This is a subject a know a little 🤏🏾 about, actually, because I researched it a bit myself in my last year of high school (and stopped because of the uh. NASTINESS associated with this particular subject) and though it’s been a few years I remembered some main, basic things, and I wanted to check a few things first.

At best, in the most CHARITABLE interpretation as far as I in my limited knowledge can tell, it would be correct to say that’s it’s POSSIBLE that she MAY have been mixed Black because, though she was part of the GREEK Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt (Ptolemy being one of Alexander the Great’s generals who got the Egyptian portion of his empire after Alexander died), that’s on her fathers side; her mother’s exact ethnicity isn’t known. Not that this won’t stop the hoteps from running off and claiming her and all of ancient Egypt as Black though So some have ***speculated*** that her mother—and thus Cleopatra—may have potentially been part Egyptian (and that goes into the issue of deciding that the “Egyptian” in this instance had to have been Black rather than MENA but that’s again a whole other can of worms). BUT it’s more likely that her mother was Greek due to the uh, PRACTICE™️ of inbreeding and it not being common for the dynasty to marry Egyptians. So it’s more probable that she was fully Greek/Macedonian and not part Egyptian, much less part Black. (Also some historians speculate she may have had Persian blood? I guess? Again it’s a can of worms, not something i’m digging deep into because of the nastiness that you often stumble across) Unless there’s a new study confirming her mother’s identity or something that I missed, it’s simply incorrect to claim that Cleopatra was undeniably Black, because though it is ***possible*** she most likely ***wasn’t.***

But this topic really upsets me, because there are LEGITIMATE Black kingdoms and empires who were mighty and well developed and powerful like the Aksumite empire and kingdoms of Kongo and Loango and the Great Zimbabwe empire and the empires of Ghana and Mali and Songhay and the Ashanti kingdom and the WHOLE SWAHILI COAST THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN TRADE ROUTE and they had their own great rulers, their own kings and queens and emperors and empresses, their palaces and castles, their own cities and towns, their own complex civilizations and dynastic royal families that deserve the attention Cleopatra and ancient Egypt get. They were erased—and Egypt was not—by white people to prop themselves up as the only race capable of forming civilizations and advanced societies as a means of justifying colonization and imperialism to “civilize” the rest of the world and as a result many of those other empires have been erased from our education system here in the states and many people cling to ancient Egypt as proof that we’re not inferior and aren’t savages like white people claim due to believing that since Egypt’s in Africa it had to have been mostly Black when Egypt, and the Ptolemaic dynasty and Cleopatra in PARTICULAR, are literally the worst example that could’ve been chosen and were the only African kingdom spared erasure FOR A REASON.

Anyway, I don’t like it, it’s disingenuous and does US wrong because we need to give that energy to other African kingdoms that need and could use the fame Egypt + Cleopatra get, and we deserve a better education system to teach us this stuff. I hope this answers your question? And I don’t mind any kinds of asks 🥰

[zombilenium]

This Singer factory is still standing in Huambo...

The singer sewing machine is thought of as a uniquely western machine, but here’s a run-down and empty factory in Huambo, which was once known as Nova Lisboa during Portuguese colonial times.

It’s not clear when this building was manufacturing Swinger machines, but after a decades-long battle for independence that lasted from 1975 - to 2002, the entire countryside was destroyed.

Now, this building simply sits in the dust and falls apart, waiting to be rebuilt by human hands. The bones of this building are still good, but it’s likely that this building will never again be brought back to its original luster.

Credit: TLM Old

[nataliliv]

[dailystreetsnapshots]

Mombasa, Kenya

[fatherphaniel]

phannies!

[angelshizuka]

People learn the difference between latino (from a Latin-American country) and hispanic (from a Spanish speaking country) challenge. Just because of how often they overlap doesn't mean they're the same thing.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

M O R O C C O

[jm-photos]

Great Mosque of Kairouan

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08.31.24 Great Mosque of Kairouan Kairouan, Tunisia

[2othcentury]

Dakar, Senegal, c. 1982 © John Atherton

[leroibobo]

the portugese synagogue in amsterdam in the netherlands. it was founded in 1675.

while most expelled sephardic jews headed to the maghreb, ottoman territories in the middle east and eastern europe, or european colonies around the world, a minority went elsewhere in western europe, mainly to england or the netherlands. the sephardic community in the latter became the largest and richest in europe during the dutch golden age. despite the netherlands' proximity to germany, they predate the arrival of ashkenazi jews to the country by about three centuries.