My Afryka

12/08/2023

Hello Africa...sending prayers, strenght and love

"Don't you know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
Don't you know you better run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh, I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run
'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh
I've been standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
Yes, finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh, no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh, no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh, no "

Tracy Chapman

Don't you know you're talking about a revolutionIt sounds like a whisperDon't you know they're talking about a revolutionIt sounds like a whisperWhile they'r...

08/03/2023

Granny, Mother, Aunty, Daughter, Sis'...Let's build more and more 🤩🤩🤩

27/02/2023

"Il est difficile de se construire lorsque l’on ignore qui on est vraiment. En ayant évolué dans une société où tout ce qui est beau, bon et bien c’est l’autre."

Nouvel article sur le blog : jeunesse africaine et réconciliation identitaire

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11/10/2022

Today is the international day of girls ! And that's how we like to see them bold and beautiful 💖

22/04/2022

In a perfect world nature is enough for us, in an ideal world the earth alone feeds us... Happy Earth Day!

21/03/2022

Today is the international day against racial discrimination.
We are in 2022 and unfortunately there are still inequalities, in many areas... So let's remind the world that every story deserves to be known, every perception deserves to be respected, every culture deserves to be represented and of course never stop reminding the world that every life matters.

A very special thought for EVERY population victim of wars over the world.

21/02/2022

Nina Simone would be 89 yo today if she didn't disappear in 2003. No need to introduce this icon artist, she was born on February 21 and we just wanted to pay tribute to her.

14/02/2022

Did you know that valentine day has an african origine ?! 🇹🇳❤️

"The pope who declared February 14 as Valentine’s Day was Pope Gelasius I, the third and last Bishop of Rome of berber origin.
He came from the Roman province of Africa which is now known as modern-day Tunisia and included parts of Algeria, Mauritania and Libya. Pope Gelasius I also hailed from the tribe of Jlass, one of the biggest Amazigh tribes in Tunisia.
He is believed to have recast the pagan fertility festival of Lupercalia, which involved the sacrifice of a goat whose skin would be dipped into sacrificial blood then used to slap the bodies of women so they can become fertile for the coming year.
Women touched by the goat’s hide wrote their names on little slips and put them in a large urn and each of the city’s bachelors picked the name of the woman that was to become his companion for the following year. That day was considered the beginning of the mating season. According to the legend, Lupercalia was officially outlawed right before the declaration of February 14 as St. Valentine’s Day."

Read the entire article on : https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2017/02/14/The-Tunisian-origin-of-the-pope-behind-Valentine-s-Day

24/01/2022

International day of education

Aujourd'hui c'est la journée internationale de l'éducation. Nous voulons que la prochaine génération brille, et nous leur frayons un chemin où les plafonds de verre seront prohibés et les obstacles deviendront des moteurs de motivation ✨👩🏿‍🎓✨👨🏾‍🎓✨👨🏻‍🎓✨🧑🏽‍🎓✨👨‍🎓

25/11/2021

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women...Is there anything else to say except enough is enough?

30/10/2021

International day of creole culture... Mentioning that and already feeling happy, this is where we learn how to build beauty from pain and struggles...Love everything about creoles...
🧡💙💚💛❤️🤍💜

16/10/2021

World Food Day is a global day celebrated annually around the world on October 16 under the aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. This date was chosen because it was the founding date of the FAO in 1945. At My Afryka we believe agriculture is the answer.

04/10/2021

National Anthem of Lesotho:

"Lesōthō fatše la bo ntat’a rōna;
Ha ra mafatše le letle ke lona;
Ke moo re hlahileng,
ke moo re hōlileng,
Rea lerata,

Mōlimō ak’u
bōlōke Lesōthō;
U felise lintoa le matšoenyeho;
Oho fatše lena;
La bo ntata rōna;
Le be le khotso"

Happy independence day to Lesotho✊🏾

Source
Map: World Atlas

02/10/2021

In October 1958, in the days which followed the independence of Guinea (October 2nd 1958) following the "no" in the referendum, De Gaulle decided to punish the Guineans because of the bad example they gave to other African peoples who accepted cooperation. as a continuation of colonization. He immediately recalls all the French civil servants, engineers and executives who then manage the entire economy and the civil and health administration, intentionally plunging Guinea into chaos. Sékou Touré then sought help from the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and set up a one-party regime and a socialist system copied from that of his new Russian friend.
In 1961, Guinea joined, with Mali and Ghana, a Union of African States, thus attempting to materialize a pan-African ideal. This federation project only lived for two years, the other African leaders favoring an "Africa of homelands"

Source : wiki

27/09/2021

Today is the international day of tourism... everybody has a dream destination or a "to go list" waiting somewhere for you to find the right moment, let me tell you something today the perfect time doesn't exist, make a room for adventure...🛫🚆🚢🧳🗺️

21/09/2021

Since 1981 today is the international day of Peace...
Let us take even one minute today to close our eyes and pretend that peace is taking over the world, that love should be spread...let us hope, 'cause hope keeps us alive 🌍 ☮️✌️🕊️

20/09/2021

Congo 's got talent.
Have you ever heard about Bill Kouélany?
She was born in 1965 in Brazzaville (Congo) where she lives.
Her new book Kipiala seems really interesting and I just can't wait to read it.

Bill Kouélany began to paint in the 80s. Very quickly his painting became more radical in response to the double tension of the Congo at war and the poet Tchicaya U Tam'si ("I found myself in this poetry, perhaps because Tchicaya is a lively skinned "). She tears and tears her canvases, then roughly sews them up. Because it is the seam (scarification? Stitches?) That it is important to show now, as if it was less a question of repairing than of pointing the finger at the wound by revealing the ghost under the skin.

At the same time, she writes, and in particular for the theater, a necessary extension to her painting (Cockroach, cockroach, Songui, songui, Maybe). She also produces videos and documentaries (Chair monologue, Resistance, Feu, 27 rue Itoumbi).

She exhibited in 2001 in a creation residency at the urban workshops of Doual'art (Cameroon), in 2002 in the off of the 5th Dakar Biennale with "the creators of Central Africa", in 2003 in the CCF of Brassville and Kinshasa, in 2004 in residence in Nantes in the exhibition "Beautés d'Afrique", in 2007 at the 12th Documenta in Kassel ...
Source : lesfrancophones.fr

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