Memory Lane

The Suez Canal marks the boundary between Africa and Asia.

Port Said in Africa and Port Fuad in Asia are both Egyptian 🇪🇬 cities, making Egypt a transcontinental country.

Jean-Pierre Adams is a former French football player, who played for the national team 22 times.

In 1982, he was admitted to hospital because he needed surgery for a ligament rupture injury.

Because many hospital staff were on strike during the time, errors were made by the anesthetist and a trainee who administered a large dose of anaesthetic.

Because of this negligence, Adams suffered a bronchospasm which starved his brain of oxygen and he slipped into a coma.

As a result, Adams remained in a coma for 39 years. His wife tended to his needs, refusing to allow euthanasia.

He died on 6 September 2021 in Nîmes at the age of 73, nearly four decades after the surgery.

▪️King of Benin, Oba Ovonramwen on the British yacht HM Ivy on his way to exile in Esien, Calabar.

▪️Here is my compilation based on my research , might have omitted some or added one or two wrongly :

▪️List of rulers dethroned by the colonial British:

1. Oba of Benin Ovoranwen Nogbaisi (1888 – 1897)
2. Emir of Kano Aliyu Ibn Abdullahi Maje Karofi (1903)
3. Emir of Ningi – Dan Yaya (1902)
4. Timi of Ede – Abibu Lagunju (1892)
5. Akarigbo of Remo – Oyebajo (1915)
6. Alase of Remo, High Chief Awolesi (1916)
7. Osemawe of Ondo – Oba Adekolurejo Jimosun II (1925)
8. Oba of Lagos – Ibikunle Akintoye & Kosoko (1845 & 1853)
9. Emir of Zaria, Mal. Muḥammad Kwasau
10. Emir of Katsina, Mal. Yero dan Musa
11. Emir of Bida, Etsu Abubakar Ma'asaba.
12. Emir of Gwandu, Mallam Muhammad Aliyu
13. Emir of Gumel, Mallam Sarki Abubakar

▪️These rulers were dethroned during the colonial period due to various reasons, including conflicts with the British authorities or their allies.
some who were not dethroned, were made warrant chiefs.

"If insurgency lasts for more than 24 hrs, the government has a hand in it"

~ General Sani Abacha

A NEW VILLAGE BUILT FROM SCRATCH

KONYA .... TURKEY ....

67 years ago today, Ghana (Gold Coast) gained independence from the British. Kwame Nkrumah later became its first President.

Happy Indepedence Day Ghana!

THE FACE OF SARAH BAARTMAN

The story of Sarah Baartman of South Africa who had an unusual long backside.

Sarah Baartman, also known as Saartjie Baartman, was a Khosa woman who was born in South Africa in the late 1789. She is famous for being exhibited as a freak show attraction in Europe in the early 18th century because of her large buttocks, which were considered unusual and exotic at the time.

Baartman was born in the Gamtoos Valley, in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. She was a member of the Khoikhoi, a group of indigenous people who lived in the region. As a young woman, Baartman was taken from her home by a British ship's doctor, William Dunlop, who promised her work as a servant in Cape Town. However, instead of being employed as a servant, Baartman was taken to England and exhibited as a sideshow attraction under the name "Hottentot Venus."

Baartman's large buttocks and elongated l***a were considered unusual and exotic, and she was put on display in London and Paris, where people paid to gawk at her. She was also made to perform various tricks, such as dancing and singing, for the entertainment of spectators. Baartman was treated poorly during this time and was not paid for her performances.

Baartman died of Syphilis in 1815 at the age of 26. She was sexually assaulted multiple times and her captors paid in exchange to experience ssehura also know by stage name The Hottentot venus , and her remains were dissected and put on display in a museum in Paris. In 2002, the South African government successfully campaigned for the return of Baartman's remains to South Africa, and she was finally laid to rest in 2002.

Baartman's story is a tragic one and serves as a reminder of the exploitation and mistreatment of people of color throughout history may she rest in eternal peace.

A couple gets into their BMW Isetta through the front door, 1950s.

Afghanistan, a country that was in war for 20 years (2001-2021). After the war, it was able to organize itself in less than 3 years, fixed it's infrastructure and grow it's economy.
This is a made in Afghanistan sport car: The Mada 9 Supercar.
It was designed and created by a 30-man team of engineers under Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute (ATVI)

Knaan is the first Somali 🇸🇴 to win a Grammy.

African unity road linking 🇩🇿 Algiers to Lagos 🇳🇬 is near completion.

The road will improve transport and delivering high-speed internet across the continent.

It starts from Algeria 🇩🇿 and connects Tunisia 🇹🇳 Mauritania 🇲🇷 Mali 🇲🇱 Niger, Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Chad 🇧🇪 over a length of 5k km.

"Even God calls me My Lord. He said I am the most powerful prophet he has ever sent from the time of John till date. I know when rapture will take place. Jesus doesn’t know. The angels don't know either. No one knows except God and I." David Owuor. Senior pastor, Ministry of Repentance and Holiness Kenya. 🇰🇪

What do you have to say to the senior personal assistant to God..

KUNTA KINTE: 20 years old in 1977 &
66 years old now.
Kunta Kinte is a bràve character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. According to Haley, Kunta Kinte is based on a true life story of one of his ancestors: a Gambian 🇬🇲 man born in 1750, enslàved and taken to America and dièd in 1822.

The San people (also formerly referred to as Bushmen) are members of different Khoe, Tuu, or Kxʼa speaking cultures. These are the earliest known cultures in South Africa, spanning from territories like Namibia 🇳🇦 Angola 🇦🇴 Lesotho 🇱🇸 Botswana 🇧🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Zambia 🇿🇲

The San are among the oldest cultures on Earth and are believed to be the oldest human ancestors, with DNA tests proving they are the direct descendants of the first H.omo sapiens.

Although they have no official leader, they make decisions as a group where males and females are equal.

The kingdom of Aksum is one of the greatest kingdoms in Africa. What are some of the achievements from the Aksum kingdom that you know?
Comment below!

Western sanctions against Russia have failed. What's next❓

The measures were supposed to bring Moscow to its knees, but all they've really achieved is make everyone in Europe poorer

In A.D. 711, a group of North African Muslims led by the Berber general, Tariq ibn-Ziyad, captured the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal). Known as al-Andalus, the territory became a prosperous cultural and economic center where education and the arts and sciences flourished.

Over time, the strength of the Muslim state diminished, creating inroads for Christians who resented Moorish rule. For centuries, Christian groups challenged Muslim territorial dominance in al-Andalus and slowly expanded their territory. This culminated in 1492, when Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I won the Granada War and completed Spain’s conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Eventually, the Moors were expelled from Spain.

By then, the idea of Moors had spread across Western Europe. “Moor” came to mean anyone who was Muslim or had dark skin; occasionally, Europeans would distinguish between “blackamoors” and “white Moors.”

Uyo circus years at its infancy.
Location, Uyo, Nigeria 1995.