Some Where in Africa

Some Where in Africa

December 29, 1790 marks the death of the famous mathematician Thomas Fuller, known as the "Mental Calculator".
Died on December 29, 1790, the late Thomas Fuller was an African slave known for his skills in mathematics. He was captured in Africa by white slaves and shipped to the USA in 1724 when he was only 14.
He was so good at math, he could do unimaginable calculations. One day when they asked him how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in approximately two minutes, 47304000. Pro-abolitionists and white philanthropists used his talent as proof that Black slaves were equal to Whites in intelligence.
Thomas Fuller, was a very great Mathematician, but unfortunately forgotten about history.
This December 29 marks the 233rd anniversary of his death.

Best African based Action movies 🎥🎬
1. Blood Diamond (2006) - 8.0
2. Hotel Rwanda (2004) - 8.1
3. Black Hawk Down (2001) - 7.7
4. Tears of the Sun (2003) - 6.6
5. The Last King of Scotland (2006) - 7.7
6. District 9 (2009) - 7.9
7. Tsotsi (2005) - 7.2
8. Out of Africa (1985) - 7.2
9. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - 6.8
10. The Constant Gardener (2005) - 7.4
11. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) - 7.3
12. Invictus (2009) - 7.3
13. The Lion King (1994) - 8.5
14. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) - 7.1
15. Gorillas in the Mist (1988) - 7.0
16. The Interpreter (2005) - 6.4
17. The Siege of Jadotville (2016) - 7.2
18. Zulu (1964) - 7.7
19. The Blue Elephant (2014) - 6.7
20. Chappie (2015) - 6.8
21. The Bang Bang Club (2010) - 7.0
22. Out of Inferno (2013) - 6.1
23. The Wild Geese (1978) - 6.8
24. Africa United (2010) - 6.6
25. Catch a Fire (2006) - 6.7
26. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - 6.8
27. The Power of One (1992) - 7.2
28. The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) - 6.8
29. Machine Gun Preacher (2011) - 6.8
30. The Naked Prey (1965) - 7.3
31. The Air Up There (1994) - 5.5
32. The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989) - 6.8
33. White Hunter Black Heart (1990) - 6.7
34. Red Scorpion (1988) - 5.2
35. Ashanti (1979) - 5.5
36. Dark of the Sun (1968) - 6.9
37. Shaka Zulu (1986) - 7.7
38. Mountains of the Moon (1990) - 7.2
39. Safari (1956) - 6.5
40. Zambezia (2012) - 5.8
41. Safari 3000 (1982) - 5.2
42. Safari Drums (1953) - 5.1
43. The Lion of Africa (1988) - 6.0
44. The White Warrior (1959) - 6.2
45. African Cats (2011) - 7.6
46. The Journey of August King (1995) - 6.3
47. King Solomon's Mines (1985) - 5.2
48. Lost in Africa (2010) - 6.1
49. Diamonds (1999) - 5.4
50. In My Country (2004) - 6.3
51. Silverton Siege (2022)
52. Sometimes in April (2005) - 9.5

FONTOMFROM, THE BIGGEST DRUM IN AKAN CULTURE
Fontomfrom is an Akan type of hourglass-shaped drum mostly used by an ensemble of Akan people to communicate Akan monarchy royal messages. In Akan culture - Ghana 🇬🇭 Fontomfrom (Talking Drum) is the biggest drum of the drum ensemble.
The Fontomfrom ensemble provides music for ceremonies honoring Akan chiefs and Akan monarchy royal processions. The Fontomfrom is also used to recite proverbs or replicate patterns of speech at most Akan monarchy royal gatherings or a Akan monarchy royal durbar.

Some facts about the African Continent today.
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Africa has 60 % arable land, Africa owns 90 % of raw material reserve, Africa owns 40 % of the global gold reserve, Africa owns 33 % of diamond reserve, Africa has 80 % of Coltan's global reserve (mineral for telephone and electronics production), mainly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Africa has 60 % of global cobalt reserve (mineral for car battery manufacture), Africa is rich in oil and natural gas, Africa (Namibia) has the world's richest fish coastline, Africa is rich in manganese, iron and wood, Africa is three times the area of China, three times the area of Europe, three times the United States of America, Africa has thirty-half million km2 (30 875 415 km2), Africa has 1,3 billion inhabitants (China has 1,4 billion inhabitants in 9,6 million km2). Which means Africa is SUBPOPULATED.

The arable lands of the Democratic Republic of Congo are capable of feeding all of Africa.
And all of Africa's arable land is a cord to feed the whole world. The Democratic Republic of Congo has important rivers that can illuminate all of Africa. The problem is that the CIA, western companies and several African puppets have destabilized DRC for decades and several African countries so they can have access to their resources.

Africa is a culturally diverse continent in terms of dance, music, architecture, sculpture, etc. Africa accommodates over 30,000 medicinal recipes and herbs that the West modifies in its laboratories.
Africa has a young global population that should reach 2,5 billion by the year 2050.

With all this Africa is known as one of the poorest continent in world because of lack of management, war, imperialism and neocolonialism.

📸 map of Africa 1840

African Countries and their Official Languages
Algeria 🇩🇿 - Arabic, Berber
Angola 🇦🇴 - Portuguese
Benin 🇧🇯 - French
Botswana 🇧🇼 - Tswana, English
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 - Fulani, Mooré, Bissa, Dyula,
Burundi 🇧🇮 - Kirundi, French
Cameroon 🇨🇲 - French, English
Cape Verde 🇨🇻 - Portuguese
Central African Republic 🇨🇫 - French, Sangho
Chad 🇹🇩 - French, Arabic
Comoros 🇰🇲 - Arabic, French
Congo 🇨🇬 - French
Cote d'Ivoire 🇨🇮 - French
DR Congo 🇨🇩 - French
Djibouti 🇩🇯 - French, Arabic
Egypt 🇪🇬 - Arabic
Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 - Spanish, Portuguese, French
Eritrea 🇪🇷 - Tigrinya, Arabic, English
Eswatini 🇸🇿 - English, siSwati
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - Amharic
Gabon 🇬🇦 - French
Ghana 🇬🇭 - English
Guinea 🇬🇶 - French
Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 - Portuguese
Kenya 🇰🇪 - KiSwahili, English
Lesotho 🇱🇸 - Sesotho, English
Liberia 🇱🇷 - English
Libya 🇱🇾 - Arabic
Madagascar 🇲🇬 - Malagasy, French
Malawi 🇲🇼 - Chewa, English
Mali 🇲🇱 - Fulani, Bambara, Soninke, Hassaniya, Minyanka
Mauritania 🇲🇷 - Arabic
Mauritius 🇲🇺 - English, French
Morocco 🇲🇦 - Arabic, Berber
Mozambique 🇲🇿 - Portuguese
Namibia 🇳🇦 - English
Niger 🇳🇪 - French
Nigeria 🇳🇬 - English
Rwanda 🇷🇼 - Kinyarwanda, French, English
Sao Tome and Principe 🇸🇹 - Portuguese
Senegal 🇸🇳 - French
Seychelles 🇸🇨 - English, French
Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 - English
Somalia 🇸🇴 - Somali
South Africa 🇿🇦 - Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sesotho, siSwati, Xitsonga, Tswana, Venda, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sign Language
South Sudan 🇸🇸 - English
Sudan 🇸🇩 - Arabic
Tanzania 🇹🇿 - KiSwahili, English
The Gambia 🇬🇲 - English
Togo 🇹🇬 - French
Tunisia 🇹🇳 - Arabic
Uganda 🇺🇬 - KiSwahili, English
Zambia 🇿🇲 - English
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 - Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, Sign Language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, and Xhosa.

He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists

As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth.

Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87):

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female ge***al mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist pe*******on of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

The boy pictured below was called Kalulu, a 12 year old enslaved African boy who drowned in Livingstone Falls in the Congo while working as a porter for British explorer, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, who also appears in one of the photos.

He was sold to Stanley by an Arab merchant in Zanzibar. His real name was Ndugu Mhali,but because Stanley didn't like the name he christened him Kalulu.

Between 1872 to 1873, Kalulu accompanied Stanley around Europe and America, and d… See more