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#westafrican

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#BurkinaFaso #bans "#homosexuality and #associated #practices"

It makes the #WestAfrican nation the latest of the continent's 54 #countries to follow a #trend in #banning #samesex #relations being spearheaded by #Western #religous #Hategroups.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ChristianDarkMoney #ExportingHate #EmptyThePews

cbsnews.com/news/burkina-faso-

www.cbsnews.comBurkina Faso bans "homosexuality and associated practices" as Africa's coup belt lurches away from the WestThree West African nations ruled by military commanders after recent coups are speaking with one voice to reject Western influence.
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Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social

In 2017 #Gambia, a predominantly Muslim #WestAfrican country, filed a case against #Myanmar at the #ICJ accusing it of committing genocide against the #Rohingya, a minority Muslim group in Myanmar. #ASEAN #SoutheastAsia #MyanmarCrisis #TheHague

#France, #Britain and others allowed to intervene in Myanmar ICJ #genocide case
gmanetwork.com/news/topstories

Back toot: noc.social/@Norobiik/112688731

GMA News OnlineFrance, Britain and others allowed to intervene in Myanmar ICJ genocide caseCanada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and the Maldives are allowed to intervene in Gambia's Myanmar genocide case with the International Court of Justice, the ICJ said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ #Coup-hit #Niger was betting on a #China-backed oil #pipeline as a lifeline. Then the troubles began.

The linked story below explains why Niger might have revoked the #French company’s uranium mining permit reported above.

With Niger tilting towards #Russia and neighboring #Benin aligned with #France and the #WestAfrican bloc, China has tried to step in and resolve the impasse and benefit from its investment in the project.

#Chinese #DebtDiplomacy

apnews.com/article/niger-benin

AP News · Coup-hit Niger was betting on a China-backed oil pipeline as a lifeline. Then the troubles beganBy CHINEDU ASADU
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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

Via #Reuters

#Russian military personnel have entered air base in #Niger that is hosting US troops, a senior US defense official told Reuters, move that follows decision by Niger's junta 2 expel US forces
Military officers ruling #WestAfrican nation have told the US 2 withdraw its nearly 1000 military personnel from country, which until #coup last yr had been key partner 4 #Washington's fight against insurgents who have killed thousands o pple & displaced millions more

reuters.com/world/africa/russi

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Das

#Weekend #Cooking 🧵 contd. 10/n
Where was I? Ah yes #WestAfrican goat feet pepper stew that started* last night. Well it finished last night but after 30 mins high pressure in the #InstantPot - I let it be. Opened it this morning and it smelled as glorious as it looked deceptively unappetizing.
Quite thick so thinned it after serving in bowls and boy this is terrific late #Breakfast pepper soup!
Not unlike menudo or birria this will get us through the morning well.

*mastodon.online/@SRDas/1101267

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PhoenixSerenity

#Adamorobe , a #village in the #WestAfrican nation of #Ghana is known as the ‘#DeafCommunity ’ due to a high incidence of a #hereditary form of #deafness. The community has found an #innovative way to normalize their #HereditaryCondition by #developing their own #SignLanguage which has been adopted by both the #deaf # hearing people in the village. This is quite different from the formal standard sign language used in the school of the deaf.

face2faceafrica.com/article/ad

Face2Face AfricaAdamorobe, the deaf community in West Africa that developed its own indigenous sign languageBy Stephen Nartey
#Inspirational#POC#Africa
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Hal

This weekend I finally finished watching all of #IdrisElba's loosely-autobiographical #British sitcom #InTheLongRun. First, I will say it is a ton of fun and SUPER entertaining. Watch it if you can, ESPECIALLY if you have any #WestAfrican friends. (Mine had previously explained #mtchew to me which totally shows up in the show.) Ok, more thoughts in 🧵. imdb.com/title/tt7464074/

IMDbIn the Long Run (TV Series 2017–2020) - IMDbIn the Long Run: Created by Idris Elba. With Jimmy Akingbola, Madeline Appiah, Bill Bailey, Idris Elba. The Easmon family living in London in 1985 sees their quiet life disrupted when their relative from Sierra Leone moves in.
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RAHstory

Cliff of Bandiagara - Land of the Dogons. Mali (Mopti region). Founded: 1770
A UNESCO World Heritage site

"The Bandiagara site is a landscape of cliffs & sandy plateaus with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places). Several age-old social traditions are still practiced in the region (masks, feasts, rituals, & ceremonies involving ancestor worship) by the Dogon."

Cliff of Bandiagara. Several homes, granaries and other structures made of earthen materials. Perfectly camouflaged beneath a giant sandstone cliff.
Side profile view from far above the Dogon dwellings. Tall earthen structures rise above the ground, some are higher up on the cliffs. Far beyond, a glimpse of a sandstone cliff in the distance.
Closer up view of the Dogon village. From here we can see some of the dwellings. Pointed straw or wheat-like roogs top these buildings. A single person is by/beneath them, perhaps, looking to the left.
View beyond the land of the Dogons, from high atop one of the sandstone cliffs. The ground below is green, dotted with many shrubs and small trees.
#Mali#WestAfrica#WestAfrican
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RAHstory

The Yoruban Orisha (Spirit) Aja is the protectress of the forest and all living things that dwell within it. A herbal healer. But the more you seek her, the less likely you are to find her. So, how do ones find her? You don't. Get lost in the forest and she'll find you.

Learn more from this article (Writer: Princella Talley): princellatalley.medium.com/rem

Life-size statue of a woman in a forest. Her body merges with the ground (almost like a sleeping pose). Green leaves foliage and moss covers her body. The statue has been here for such a long time that it looks like she is a part of the forest now (But she looks ageless).
Congo Rainforest. Tall trees from one end of the frame to another. There is a dense mist that covers 25% of the picture. So we can't see the tops of some trees or the ground.
#WestAfrica#WestAfrican#Nigeria
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RAHstory

Among the Yoruba (Nigeria), ancestral spirits of the community are invoked into local initiates during Egungun festival. They serve to keep the community in line morally, impart their collective wisdom & act as messengers of the recently deceased.

Read ethnographer A.B. Ellis's account of the Yoruba in 1894:
(Chapter VI: EGUNGUN, ORO, ABIKU, AND VARIOUS SUPERSTITIONS)
sacred-texts.com/afr/yor/yor07

Egungun festival costume. Large piece of fabric. Colorful. Primarily golden yellow, with multicolored animals. From an opening at the top there peaks the head of a puppet-like body. It's red with white markings on its face.
3 Egungun festival costumes. 2 of them are like the one before, but primarily red with multicolored scene depicting people, animals and nature. In the middle, there's a person with a multicolored garment that goes from their head to their ankles (Their face can't be seen).
Egungun festival costume. On display (Not on a person). Various pieces of fabric sewn together (in different lengths and patterns).
#WestAfrica#WestAfrican#Nigeria
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RAHstory

In the south of Burkina Faso lies a small village called Tiébélé. It's home to the Kassena people; one of the oldest ethnic groups that settled in the region in the 15th century.

Tiébélé is known for their amazing traditional Gurunsi architecture and elaborately decorated walls of their homes.

Dating back to the 16th century, wall decorating has always been a community project done by the women.

Gurunsi-style home in the village of Tiébélé, Burkina Faso. Black and white designs (Triangles, Stars, checkers, crosshatch, etc) painted on clay homes.
Gurunsi-style home in the village of Tiébélé, Burkina Faso. Black designs (Triangles, Stars, checkers, crosshatch, etc) painted on brown-red earthen clay homes.
Gurunsi-style home in the village of Tiébélé, Burkina Faso. Large black and white checkered pattern over a clay home. Covers every inch of the structure.
#Africa#African#WestAfrica
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RAHstory

Ala is the creator goddess of the Igbo people of West and Central Africa.

She is the giver and destroyer of life, and as such, her name, which translates to 'earth' and 'land', denotes her as the caregiver of all living things in every season of life.

She is also associated with justice and morality.

Symbols: Yams, Crescent Moon

African woman with hair braided and elaborated looped around her head. She wears the fur of what seems to be an animal with light and dark brown fur. On her shoulder is an owl.
#WestAfrica#WestAfrican#African
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RAHstory

Were-Hyena: You've heard of werewolves, but have you heard of were-hyenas?

The word is new. But the lore spans Africa & the Near East.

In Ethiopia, it's traditionally believed every blacksmith, whose trade is hereditary, is really a wizard or witch with the power to change into a hyena. They're believed to rob graves...

Read more about this and other werehyena lore: facebook.com/RAHstory/photos/a

The Were-Hyena of African & Near Eastern Folklore
#WestAfrica#WestAfrican#African
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