We all want to feel like we stand on the side of truth and justice, that we do not side with an oppressor. So why is it that for the longest time, I never understood the plight of Palestine. Is it because I was raised a catholic and came to believe that Israel belonged to the Jews Gods  "chosen people" (if they are chosen by God, what does that make us?). Every one acts as though the middle east conflict is the most complicated foreign relations issue in the world, really its very simple.Its ...
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How do you describe your self? I'm a nurse, I'm a teacher... do you define your self as your occupation. We go to school for years and years often to acquire knowledge that the pioneers of the occupation never learned from colleges. If you  do what you want to do and do what you want life will be a lot more effortless. This Image is from a city buried under the ocean and was only uncovered by the Tsunami. Some of our most beautiful treasures are uncovered by turbulent storms in our lives, but...
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" Moigoi and Wamboi and all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines." Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta.

Anyone who hasn't read this book should definitely do so. This picture dipicts Timbuktu, once a thriving schalar city deep in the Sahara desert. We have a lot of work ahead of us, which shrines will...
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African Architecture just like our music is unique. As a young woman I had no Idea that Africans had a long history of beautiful architecture until I went to Mombasa and saw the Ruins at Gedi/ Malindi. The swahili states were a number of major cities that flourished on the east African coast between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. (What we had cities before colonization by the british?) Of course. The swahili states started in Mogadishu and went all the way down to Mozambique.


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Its amazing how much we as Africans don't understand about our own culture. I was Partying last week with "progressive African" just letting loose and hanging out, when a song by Miriam Makeba played everyone was indefferent and didn't seem to understand just how important Miriam Makeba was in Our Freedom as African people. The reason we were in that room carefree and partying was because Activists like Miriam Makeba had fought hard for our freedom. After afew minutes of being pissed off, I r...
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