Africa history made (Marejeo)

Africa history made (Marejeo)

Mshana Jr said:
"Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president [Franklin D. Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram." — Jesse Owens after winning FOUR GOLD medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The president invited each white US olympian to the White House, but not Jesse.

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Every day at 9am, Susie King Taylor and her brother would walk the half a mile to the small schoolhouse, their books wrapped in paper to prevent the police from seeing them. Her grandmother made sure of it - she wanted Susie to be able to read and write.

Susie was barely in her early teens when her family fled to St. Simons Island, a Union controlled area in Georgia, during the Civil War. With her inquisitive eyes and kind demeanor and her education, she impressed the army officers. They asked that she become a teacher for children and even some adults. “I would gladly do so, if I could have some books,” she replied. And so she became the first black teacher of freed black students to work in a freely operating freedmen’s school in Georgia.

Not long after, Susie married, and joined her husband and his regiment as they traveled. She became their teacher, teaching the illiterate men to read and write. It was also during this time that she became a nurse to the men, thus making her the first black army nurse in the Civil War.

All this she accomplished before the age of 18.

Looking back on her time as a nurse, she said that “I gave my service willingly for four years and three months without receiving a dollar. I was glad…to care for the sick and afflicted comrades.”

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Queen Gicanda, the last Rwandan queen was killed during the 1994 genocide on 20th April 1994,
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After Patrice Lumumba was killed in 1961, his body was cut into pieces and destroyed with acid to hide the crime. A Belgian officer took one of his teeth and kept it for years like a trophy. For decades, Belgium held on to it. But in June 2022, they finally gave the tooth back to his family. It was taken home and buried in the Congo.
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#jamesatteh #PatriceLumumba #viralpost
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Mshana Jr said:
Katika The Lost World of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post anaandika kuhusu kuishi miongoni mwa wanaume wa asili wa Jangwa la Kalahari na anaeleza jinsi walivyoshtuka kwamba hakuweza kusikia nyota.
#Waafrika Pekee
Mwanzoni walidhani ni lazima anatania au anadanganya. Walipogundua kwamba kweli hawezi kusikia nyota, walihitimisha kwamba lazima awe mgonjwa sana na alionyesha huzuni kubwa. Kwa maana Wabush walijua kwamba mtu yeyote ambaye hawezi kusikia asili lazima awe na ugonjwa mbaya kuliko wote
#unapologeticafricanagain #muhibdahala #overlordd
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Samahani mkuu hapa umeniacha njia panda unaweza kujazia jazia nyama kidogo Kusikia nyota??
 
A Shaker woman saw men wasting their energy and came up with an idea that changed an entire industry.

Around 1813, Tabitha Babbitt was watching men use a large, two-man whipsaw to cut logs. She noticed it was incredibly inefficient.

The saw would only cut when it was pulled forward. The entire motion of pushing it back was wasted effort and time.

Observing this, she had a revolutionary thought. What if the blade was circular, so it could cut continuously in one smooth motion?

She created a prototype by attaching a circular blade to her spinning wheel, proving the concept worked. This was the birth of the circular saw as we know it. 🪵

Her invention dramatically increased the efficiency of sawmills and played a key role in the lumber industry's growth.

Yet, because of her Shaker beliefs, Babbitt never patented her invention. The Shakers believed in sharing their work and ideas freely for the benefit of the community.

Because she never filed for a patent, her name is often overlooked in history books, but her ingenuity and selfless spirit of innovation left a lasting mark on the world. 🤔

Sources: Shaker Museum records, Historical accounts of American inventors
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