Africa history made (Marejeo)

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Photo of Eartha Kitt's first year in school in New York after moving there to live with her aunt. She attended the Metropolitan Vocational High School (later renamed the High School of Performing Arts).

Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, comedian, dancer and activist known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world". In 1992, she had a supporting role as Lady Eloise in Boomerang. In 1995, Kitt appeared as herself in an episode of The Nanny.

Kitt began her career in 1942 and appeared in the 1945 original Broadway theatre production of the musical Carib Song. In the early 1950s, she had six US Top 30 entries, including "Uska Dara" and "I Want to Be Evil". Her other recordings include the UK Top 10 song "Under the Bridges of Paris" (1954), "Just an Old Fashioned Girl" (1956) and "Where Is My Man" (1983). She starred as Catwoman in the third and final season of the television series Batman in 1967.

In 1968, her career in the U.S. deteriorated after she made anti-Vietnam War statements at a White House luncheon. Ten years later, Kitt made a successful return to Broadway in the 1978 original production of the musical Timbuktu!, for which she received the first of her two Tony Award nominations. Her second was for the 2000 original production of the musical The Wild Party. Kitt wrote three autobiographies.

Kitt found a new generation of fans through her roles in the Disney films The Emperor's New Groove (2000), in which she voiced the villainous Yzma, and Holes (2003). She reprised the role as Yzma in the direct-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove (2005), as well as the animated series The Emperor's New School (2006–2008). Her work on the latter earned her two Daytime Emmy Awards. She posthumously won a third Emmy in 2010 for her guest performance on Wonder Pets!.

Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company in 1943 and remained a member of the troupe until 1948. A talented singer with a distinctive voice, she recorded the hits "Let's Do It", "Champagne Taste", "C'est si bon" (which Stan Freberg famously burlesqued), "Just an Old Fashioned Girl", "Monotonous", "Je cherche un homme", "Love for Sale", "I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch", "Kâtibim" (a Turkish melody), "Mink, Schmink", "Under the Bridges of Paris" and her most recognizable hit "Santa Baby", which was released in 1953.

Kitt's unique style was enhanced as she became fluent in French during her years performing in Europe. She spoke four languages (she is thought to have learned German and Dutch from her stepfather, English from her mother, and French from the European cabaret circuit) and sang in eleven, which she demonstrated in many of the live recordings of her cabaret performances. Diana Ross said that as a member of The Supremes she largely based her look and sound after Kitt's.

Kitt was active in numerous social causes in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, she established the Kittsville Youth Foundation, a chartered and non-profit organization for underprivileged youths in the Watts area of Los Angeles.

AWARDS

[emoji830]2007 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program The Emperor's New School

[emoji830]2008 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program The Emperor's New School

[emoji830]2010 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Wonder Pets!: Save the Cool Cat and the Hip Hippo

 

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Picha za Bob Marley zilizopotea huko Port of Spain, Trinidad, [emoji1247] kabla ya kuvuma kwa roketi na umaarufu wa kimataifa. Ilikuwa wakati wa Carnival, 1973. Katika kampuni yake alikuwemo mpenzi wake wa takriban miaka miwili, Esther Anderson, mtengenezaji wa filamu wa Jamaika, mpiga picha, mwanamitindo, mwigizaji na mtu muhimu nyuma ya pazia katika kuinuka kwa Island Records na msanii wake mkubwa, Bob Marley. Kama mwigizaji, alikuwa ameibuka kama binti wa kifalme wa Kiafrika katika kipindi cha A Warm cha Sidney Poitier, jukumu ambalo alishinda Tuzo la Picha la NAACP la Mwigizaji Bora wa Kike. Bi Anderson tayari alikuwa nyota na dunia miguuni mwake alipoamua kuweka kando uigizaji ili kusaidia kukuza Island Records. Uhusiano wao uliisha wakati Bi Anderson alipogundua kuwa Marley alikuwa tayari ameolewa na ana watoto. Chanzo: Miami New Times

 

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Michael Jackson never know how handsome he is till the day he changed from black to white. Black is beautiful so stop all these bleaching and changing from black to white.
#black is beautiful#africans unite

 

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Picha hii ilipigwa mnamo mwaka 1987
Barrack Hussain Obama akiwa na nyanya yake

 

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Field marshal 1979

 

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Kwa wale wasiojua, siku aliyofariki Samora Machel aliruka kwa ndege toka uwanja wa ndege wa Mbala kaskazini mwa Zambia. Mbala si mbali sana na mkoa wa Rukwa nchini Tanzania, wanazungumza lugha inayofanana, ingawa Zambia wanaitwa wa Mambwe na Tanzania wanaitwa wa Fipa. Sasa hivi uwanja wa ndege unaitwa Zambia Air Force Samora Machel base kama kumbukizi ya kifo cha Samora Machel. Endelea kusoma hapo chini.

Wewe unakumbuka nini siku ya kifo cha Samora Machel? Mimi nakumbuka tulirudishwa nyumbani toka shuleni,ilikua sikukuu pia. Nilikua darasa la 6.

Kifo cha Samora Machel

Mwanamapinduzi wa vuguvugu la ukombozi la kiongozi wa Mocambique FRELIMO na Rais wa kwanza wa Msumbiji Samora Moises Machel, aliuawa katika ajali ya ndege tarehe 19 Oktoba 1986. Kifo cha Rais kilileta mshtuko duniani kote. Pia waliouawa katika ajali hiyo walikuwa wanachama thelathini na watatu wa chama chake na wafanyakazi wa Kirusi waliotengeneza ndege aina ya Tupolev TU 134A.

Ndege hiyo ilikuwa ikirejea kutoka katika Mkutano wa Viongozi wa Afrika uliofanyika nchini Zambia. Ilishuka kwenye milima ya Lebombo karibu na Mbuzini huko Neslpruit mashariki mwa Transvaal (sasa Mpumalanga). Eneo la ajali lilikuwa eneo ambalo mpaka wa Afrika Kusini uliungana na Swaziland na Msumbiji. Ukweli kwamba ilisambaratika katika eneo la Afrika Kusini ulizua baadhi ya maswali kuhusu uwezekano wa kuhusika kwa serikali ya kibaguzi wa rangi. Kati ya watu thelathini na wanne waliokuwemo ndani ya ndege hiyo ni tisa tu ndio walionusurika kwenye ajali hiyo.

Baada ya ajali hiyo Tume, iliyoundwa na wawakilishi kutoka Afrika Kusini, Msumbiji na Umoja wa Kisovieti, ilianzishwa ili kubaini chanzo cha ajali hiyo. Sababu nyingi zinazowezekana, kuanzia hitilafu ya mitambo hadi hali mbaya ya hewa, ziliwekwa kama sababu ya ajali hiyo. Hata hivyo uchunguzi umeshindwa kubainisha chanzo hasa cha ajali hiyo. Serikali mpya ya kidemokrasia ya Afrika Kusini imetaka uchunguzi mpya ufanyike ili kubaini chanzo halisi cha ajali na kifo cha Rais Machel.

 

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Meet The Inventor Of The World’s Fastest Computer, Dr. Philip Emeagwali

Dr. Philip Emeagwali, who has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa," was born in Nigeria [emoji1184] in 1954. Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school at age 14 because his father could not continue paying Emeagwali's school fees. However, his father continued teaching him at home, and everyday Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour. His father taught him until Philip "knew more than he did."

Growing up in a country torn by civil war, Emeagwali lived in a building crumbled by rocket shells. He believed his intellect was a way out of the line of fire. So he studied hard and eventually received a scholarship to Oregon State University when he was 17 where he obtained a BS in mathematics. He also earned three other degrees – a Ph.D. in Scientific computing from the University of Michigan and two Masters degrees from George Washington University.

The noted Black inventor received acclaim based, at least in part, on his study of nature, specifically bees. Emeagwali saw an inherent efficiency in the way bees construct and work with honeycomb and determined computers that emulate this process could be the most efficient and powerful. In 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb construction, Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Dr. Philip Emeagwali's resume is loaded with many other such feats, including ways of making oil fields more productive – which has resulted in the United States saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As one of the most famous African-American inventors of the 20th century, Dr. Emeagwali also has won the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation. His computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming.

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African American Actor, Samuel L. Jackson gained Gabonese citizenship after tracing his ancestry to the Benga tribe. According to The Guardian, “Jackson traced his roots to the Bantu tribe in Gabon. The Bantu people are speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.”

Four Black Celebrities That Became Citizens Of African Countries

This Article Lists the African American celebrities who clinched citizenship of various African countries In the year 2019.

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POEM[emoji181][emoji288]

I Am An African
I am an African
Not because I was born there
But because my heart beats with Africa’s
I am an African
Not because my skin is black
But because my mind is engaged by Africa
I am an African
Not because I live on its soil
But because my soul is at home in Africa

When Africa weeps for her children
My cheeks are stained with tears
When Africa honours her elders
My head is bowed in respect
When Africa mourns for her victims
My hands are joined in prayer
When Africa celebrates her triumphs
My feet are alive with dancing

I am an African
For her blue skies take my breath away
And my hope for the future is bright
I am an African
For her people greet me as family
And teach me the meaning of community
I am an African
For her wildness quenches my spirit
And brings me closer to the source of life

When the music of Africa beats in the wind
My blood pulses to its rhythm
And I become the essence of sound
When the colours of Africa dazzle in the sun
My senses drink in its rainbow
And I become the palette of nature
When the stories of Africa echo round the fire
My feet walk in its pathways
And I become the footprints of history

I am an African
Because she is the cradle of our birth
And nurtures an ancient wisdom
I am an African
Because she lives in the world’s shadow
And bursts with a radiant luminosity
I am an African
Because she is the land of tomorrow
And I recognise her gifts as sacred

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Historia ya kutengeneza na kuuza tumbaku nchini Jamaika inaweza kuwa ya zamani kuliko unavyojua.

"Mwaka jana, sigara milioni 23 zilizotengenezwa kwa mikono zilisafirishwa hadi Marekani kutoka Jamaika, mzalishaji wa nne kwa ukubwa wa sigara za hali ya juu kwa soko la Marekani, baada ya Jamhuri ya Dominika, Honduras na Nicaragua, na msafirishaji mkuu pekee aliyeonyesha ongezeko. zaidi ya uzalishaji wake wa 1997. Takriban milioni 20 kati ya sigara hizo zilitoka kwa Cifuentes y Cia., kiwanda kinachomilikiwa na General Cigar Co., na milioni 2.8 zilitoka kwa kampuni ya baada ya Gilbert Jamaika ya sigara ya Royal Jamaica, Jamaica Tobacco Manufacturing Co. (1995). ) Ltd., ubia wa 75/25 unaomilikiwa na Consolidated Cigar Corp. na Gore.

"Tumbaku ni ya asili ya Jamaika. Aina inayoitwa ulimi wa ng'ombe, au ulimi wa fedha, hukua porini kwenye udongo wenye rutuba, wa volkeno wa kisiwa hicho, na wenyeji huitumia kutengeneza mchanganyiko wenye nguvu unaovutwa kwenye mabomba. Lakini uvutaji wa sigara na utengenezaji wa sigara haujaingia ndani kabisa. Jamaica, kwa vile wako Cuba, jirani wa karibu wa kisiwa hicho."

 

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On December 26th in the year 1908 Jack Johnson became the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion by knocking out Tommy Burns. For years America would not show this image of a blackman knocking out a wh!te man. 🤎
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UPDATE

Nigerian troops kills over 73 terrorists responsible for Kuje, Bwari and Zuma Rock attacks after getting information from arrested terrorists by the Defence Intelligence Agency in the early hours of Sunday
Some of the dead terrorists include some Kuje prison escapees

#copied

 

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Afro-Uruguayans: A brief History of the African Community of Uruguay

Afro-Uruguayan" refers to Uruguayans of Black African ancestry, They are mainly concentrated in the city of Montevideo. The blacks came to Uruguay as slaves, ladinos--hispanized slaves, in 1534, but eventually settled in Argentina.

The South American republic of Uruguay is not one of the first names that come to mind when we think of the big nations of the African diaspora, such as Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the United States. Not alot of people are aware of the existence of Afro-Uruguayans.

Contrarily, Uruguay, which received about 600,000 immigrants from Europe between 1880 and 1930, has long promoted itself as one of the two “white republics” of South America (its neighbor Argentina is the other). 93% of its citizens identified as white in the national household survey of 1996, a number substantially higher than in the United States (where 75 percent of the population classified itself as white in the 2000 census).

Economically, Afro-Uruguayans remain among the poorest sectors of Uruguayan society: most are non-qualified workers employed in the construction industry, domestic service, or cleaning and porter services. There is high unemployment among young Afro-Uruguayans.

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Afro-Uruguayans: A Brief History Of The African Community Of Uruguay  | My Beautiful Black Ancestry

Afro-Uruguayans also founded social clubs, political clubs, dancing and recreational groups, literary and drama societies, and civic organizations (PAN).

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Over 314 years ago, [7/2/1706], Kimpa Vita was burned alive by Catholic missionaries.

Kimpa Vita was killed for preaching the return to roots, African/Kongo traditions, the return to Mbanza-Kongo land of her ancestors that was abandoned after the death of the sovereign Vita-A-Nkanga in the famous Battle of Mbwila (Ambuila - 1665). Kimpa Vita was killed because she advised the Kongo people to abandon foreign beliefs (Catholicism), and for conducting a spiritual struggle against the Portuguese.

She was baptized with the name of Ana Beatriz when she was a child. But when she started her fight, she rejected the baptism name and adopted the name, "Kimpa Vita or Kimpa Kya Nvita" which means " NEW WAY TO MAKE WAR". A war that she considered spiritual.
Kimpa Vita was burned alive with her son on her back by Catholic missionaries.

Kimpa Vita

 

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Ludacris in Ghana: "Our ancestors never gave up Faith. You can never imp.rison our minds nor our spirits. They empowered me to Return. I have completed the cycle and I’m beginning a new Cycle. The Chains have been Broken and the indomitable resilience of African People Triumphs "[emoji1431] [emoji1421]

On his shirt is written "I'm not African because I was born in Africa. I'm African because Africa is born in me." He was in Ghana [emoji1110] in 2019 for the Year of Return.

 

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Nigerian artist, John Amanam is the first African to produce hyper-realistic prostheses for black people.

He is the CEO of Immortal Cosmetic Art.

 

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Mursi woman with a Kalashnikov in the Lower Omo Valley.[emoji1098]

The Mursi Tribe are found in the far southwest corner of Ethiopia, just north of the Kenyan[emoji1139] border in the valley of the River Omo. Here in the remote Omo Valley palaeontologists have discovered some of the oldest human remains on earth and the tribes who live there today still follow many ancient practises. The Mursi Tribe, of which there are less than 15,000, are well known for the large plates the women wear in their lower lip.
The custom of wearing a lip plate is linked to the female’s fertility and eligibility for marriage. When a Mursi girl reaches puberty (around age 15 to 16) she will have her lip cut by a female member of the tribe and a small wooden stick is inserted. The lip is then slowly stretched over a period of time, first by inserting larger sticks each night and eventually by wearing plates of various size and decoration. It is said that a woman who does not wear a lip plate is considered lazy and will not warrant as large a bride wealth (a dowry which usually consists of a certain number of cattle). With some lip plates reaching up to 12 centimetres in diameter, it is certainly a mark of perseverance and bravery on the behalf of the woman who wears it.

The lip plates, which may be made from wood or clay, are generally worn by single or newly married women at four main occasions: when serving food to men, at special events (like weddings), at donga duelling competitions and at dances. After a number of years of marriage the woman may slowly stop wearing her lip plate, removing it altogether if her husband passes away.

Young Mursi men prove themselves to their future wives by taking part in a donga, a form of ceremonial duelling. Contenders wear a duelling kit known as umoga, which provides protection as well as decoration, and usually involves shin guards made from animal skin, a leopard skin draped over the torso, head gear made from cotton and a cattle bell tied around the waist. Using wooden poles approximately 2 metres in length, the two men dual until one retires or is knocked out of the fight.

The Mursi tribe’s main crop is sorghum, a drought and heat tolerant grain, which the women serve as a thick porridge, but they also grow maize, beans and chickpeas. The main responsibility of the Mursi women is to fetch firewood and water so that they may cook the food provided by the men.

Whether the Mursi women will continue to wear lip plates remains to be seen. Some younger Mursi women believe that not having their lip cut makes them more modern – they are aware that the practise is seen as backwards by their own government and by the tourists who come to photograph the girls wearing them. For others, however, the lip plates are a part of their heritage, a way to differentiate their tribe from others in the surrounding area, and (more recently) the visitors it attracts has become a vital form of income for the often for the tribe.