We are not meant to win. We are meant to struggle.
Live golden anyway.
"Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man, they only reveal him."
-Imam Ali
That movie was art. A beautifully tragic snapshot of life in Timbuktu during the Islamist takeover in 2012. The resistance, especially by the women who had the most to lose, was so inspiring. These are the stories you never hear about.
While I watched the film, it felt like I was looking in a mirror. I had no idea the different colors the Tuareg and Malians come in. I kept seeing East African faces and had to remind myself that this is Mali! Plus, the main character’s name is Kidane which is also a Habesha name. Not sure what it means in Tamashek but I’d love to know!
I swear it felt so familiar. My north west African brothers and sisters.
According to legend, Tin Hinan was the first leader and matriarch to unite the Tuareg world. She is believed to have travelled from the Tafilalt oasis located in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, settling in the Ahaggar mountains of Algeria where she established her kingdom, becoming the first Queen (Tamenokalt) of the Tuaregs.
Her remains were discovered in the Ahaggar region of Algeria when her tomb was excavated by archaeologists in 1925 - 1926. She was found lying on a finely carved wooden bed and was covered in jewels. She had seven silver bracelets on her right forearm and seven gold ones on her left.
To this day she is still referred to by the Tuareg as “Mother of Us All”.
“The Ivory Bangle Woman”, so called because of the jewelry she was buried with, was seemingly one of the wealthiest women in Eboracum, or Roman York (UK). Archaeologists have recently proved that she was African.
White people are new to the earth new to wealth new to power and do not want to admit that black people taught them everything they know about living outside of the cold climate caves
Anonymous asked:
Do you know the origins or the amazigh? I keep hearing that were not real Africans and originated in either Europe or Yemen. But I'm confused because I have a dark black amazigh grandfather and a really pale amazigh grandmother. It's really confusing when you're trying to figure out what you identify with especially since lots of sources are very Eurocentric.
