#thekraalphoto

[spanky606]

Reposted from @the.kraal - April 24, 1965. Che Guevara along with 120 men (mostly Afro-Cubans) land in the East of the Congo in order to help the Simba rebels. With the goal of exporting the revolutionary ideology that he and Fidel Castro have successfully implemented in Cuba, Che Guevara arrives in Africa full of hope. Unfortunately for him, the story did not go as he planned. When the Cubans land, the simbas are strongly weakened; the movement is dying and they control just a little part of the east, compared to half of the country a year before. Wanting to “cubanize” the Congolese as he writes in his diary, Che realizes that the Congo is not yet mature for this kind of revolution. The men are disorganized, many desertions occur, attacks are missed and on top of that, there are rivalries between Simba leaders. Consequence, Che Guevara’s Congolese campaign is a disaster. In October, the country’s armed forces, backed by European & American mercenaries launch an offensive on the Simbas. A month later, the movement collapses. Che Guevara and his men leave the country on November 21, 1965. 3 days later, Mobutu takes power & thirty-two years later, in May 1997, he is overthrown by Laurent-Désiré Kabila (who was a Simba leader). About the situation in the Congo, Che Guevara wrote in his diary: “the painful case of the Congo, unique in the history of the modern world, shows how people make fun of the rights of other people with the greatest impunity. The enormous wealth that the Congo holds and that the imperialist nations want to keep under their control is the reason for all this. All the free men of the world must be ready to avenge the crime committed against the Congo.” Let it resonate 🔊🇨🇩 . . #TheKraalHISTORY #TheKraalPHOTO #africa #congo #lumumba #knowyourhistory #traditions #traditional #culture #fortheculture #melanin #melanated - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsamn9ZHtng/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uevkciqh94w

[arch-angelraphael]

#PowerHerself Afar women from Djibouti performing their traditional sword dance (also found in Eritrea & Ethiopia) - Who can enlighten us about this? (tag photographer) 😍🇩🇯🇪🇷🇪🇹🌍🗡 . #TheKraalPHOTO #African #NaturalBeauty #BlackWoman #Photography #PhotographerLife #Photographer #Djibouti #BlackCulture #PanAfricanism . #ProjectRawNigeria https://www.instagram.com/p/B05j0HYAEpc/?igshid=xdragz10xe9z

[sls5s]

Reposted from: @the.kraal Churches sent missionaries to every villages to ensure that Africans were not only westernized but also mentally prepared to be colonized by negating their own indigenous beliefs. Missionaries were the only Europeans who lived permanently among Africans. As a result, they were able to scrutinize every aspect of African culture, while negating it in the process. By encouraging obedience, meekness, and passivity among Africans, these missionaries acted as the intellectual arm of the colonial government. To missionaries, indigenous institutions epitomized “witchcraft,” an evil that only conversion to Christianity would remove. African Christians were encouraged to abandon indigenous religious practices. These Africans believed that “only an educated man will survive and make progress in the future because the white man has created a new world. To survive in that world one needs education and civilization, not Zulu history. Missionaries also encouraged their converts to buy foreign goods, especially textiles and clothing, as they preached against the evils of nakedness. A cleavage soon developed within society between the small African educated elite, whose interests were closely tied to those of the colonial power, and the majority of Africans, who sought to free themselves of foreign domination. (also called “Kraal Africans” or “Kraal Kaafirs” in South Africa - more on that soon) Among the Xhosa of South Africa, the elite was called Amaqoboka (people having a hole) because they opened a hole in the Xhosa community, thus allowing the Europeans to convert them to Christianity. Among the Zulu, this class was called Kholwa (literally, “believers”). Although the elite viewed itself as the natural leader of the masses, the majority of the people did not respect them. The people believed that Africans who converted to Christianity were not “normal.” 🌍 . On the work of missionaries as explained by Prof Mueni Wa Muiu of Salem State University 🎙 #AFRICANISM #TheKraalQuotes #TheKraalPHOTO https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz7I7UzDgZA/?igshid=1pk0hw9zu81om

[otheunstoppable]

...from @the.kraal - #wcw Mucubal woman from Angola 🇦🇴 The Mucubal (also called Mucubai, Mucabale or Mugubale) people are a sub-group of the Herero ethnic group that live in southern Angola, where they are believed to have settled during the Herero migration about 300 years ago. They speak a Bantu language and are thought to originally come from Kenya where they are said to be related to the Maasai. 📸 - Luca Gargano . . #TheKraalPHOTO #africa #african #blackconsciousness #blackexcellence #melanated #melanin #selfpreservation #panafrican #photooftheday #blackwoman #africanwoman #picoftheday #pictureoftheday #photo #photographer #afrika #ig_africa #africagram -- #diaspora https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxxu4iYlLZN/?igshid=c8vdfgn944kp

[allnaturalbliss]

#Repost @the.kraal ・・・ Gold is a soft, shiny, yellow, heavy, malleable and ductile metal. It is also a trivalent and a univalent which means it’s a transitional metal. As a transitional metal, it is symbolic of FLEXIBILITY on our spiritual path, while life experiences galvanize our faith. This was arguably the most important trait an African leader needed to possess as the people responded to his/her soul. Indeed, the soul of the king/queen was the soul of the tribe. In fact, gold represented perfection in all matter, on any level. It also symbolized the sage’s quest to perfect, illuminate and refine his/herself. Because of its resistance to heat and acid, gold was also a symbol of immutability, eternity and perfection and because of its color, it was universally associated with solar symbolism. This gives gold attributes such as vitality, life, radiance, wisdom, light, and virtue. . The infamous legend of the alchemists turning common metals into gold is actually a parable for the human quest to change base vulgarities like greed, hate, and selfishness into qualities like love, virtue, and compassion, through the process of self-purification. Gold was symbolic of this transition of the soul into a crystalline form, and the leaders loved it because it inspired them with light of heart. 🌍💛✨ . Image: Baoulé woman gold necklace, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 . . #TheKraalPHOTO #TheKraalTRADITIONS #africa #african #blackconsciousness #blackexcellence #melanated #melanin #selfpreservation #panafrican #esotericknowledge #knowledgeofself #ancientknowledge #gold #photooftheday #picoftheday #pictureoftheday #photo #photographer #afrika #ig_africa #africagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BriJJe_HRQ8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fbnroeljppb1