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16/06/2023

I gained 314 followers, created 6 posts and received 14 reactions from March to June! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

17/03/2023

THE TRILOGY IS ON 🏆

23/02/2023

Jamaa ana sema mzigo upo karibu uhudumiwe

16/02/2023

08/02/2023

Dar es salaam Niko tayari

🥊🥊 FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT 🥊 🥊

Unbeaten American boxer Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller will face Nigerian Gbenga "Bang Bang" Oluokun in a 10 rounds Heavyweight clash on February 23rd in Super Dome Arena, Dar-Es-Salaam,Tanzania.

21/11/2022

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17/11/2022

𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘⏱️

Young Africans SC 4 - 1 Singida Bigstar

Alama 3 muhimu

16/11/2022

K**a kawaida yetu, TUMESHINDA 💪

03/10/2022

INSPIRATIONAL from former Cameroon international Eyong Enoh:

"In January 2006,I travelled to North Cyprus for trials with a 1st Divison club.At this time I was playing 1st division in Cameroon with Mount Cameroon and the Cameroon U20 National Team.

I had a 10 days trial with this team and i was deemed not good enough,my agent Divine took me to a 2nd Division Club and they too didn't accept me.Most of the players I travelled with had already signed with their respective clubs and I was still in limbo.

My agent decided we give another try with a 3rd division team which also said I wasn't good enough.He felt discouraged and confused cause he counted on me as his best bet amongst all the other good players he came with.I consoled him that,he shouldn't worry,there is definitely a team for me.

Two days later he got a call from a 1st Division club that needed a midfielder,he asked reluctantly if I could come train with them,and they said yes.I arrived and had my first training with the team and the coach said he liked me and would like to have me in his team.You can imagine the relief my agent and I had.

The first hurdle to get a club was done,what is going to happen next? I went for medicals and the results according to the doctor showed that I had a heart problem.We moved to three other locations to validate the results.

If you are still reading it means you are eager to know how this ends.How it end's is that,my medical report was duely verified allowing me to play.The team went on to be Champions that season and I was voted the best player of the league that season.

Things to keep in Mind:

● On your journey of success,rejection is inevitable.
● It's not what happens to you that matters,it's what you do when those things happen.

Check 4pballer.com/home for Tiger Mentality Mentorship..."

Source: The Real Eyong Enoh

29/09/2022

Once you are born in Africa life is automatically leading you 1-0 . If you are not educated 2-0, If your parents don't have money it's 3-0. And if you don't have connections that's 4-0. At this point you're left with no option but to hustle everyday in order to equalize.

May you have a prosperous week 🙏🙏

29/09/2022

American track and field athlete Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan was born in Denver, Colorado on September 29, 1908. Nicknamed the "Midnight Express”. he competed in sprints and set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events at the 1932 Olympics.

He was the first African-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220-yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne to become the first man to win both the amateur and professional world sprint championships. In his full career as a sprinter, Tolan won 300 races and lost only 7. died on January 31, 1967.

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29/09/2022

Ancient Egypt and Africa played a great role in educating the world. Most of what we know today (science, medicine, technology, art, engineering, etc) came from Ancient civilizations like the Egyptian civilization. It's important we learn our history before slavery because slavery is not African history, slavery interrupted our history.

Mots of the Greeks philosophers that we celebrated today got their education in Ancient Egypt. These philosophers visited Egypt and studied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Art, Medicine, etc. The likes of Plato, studied in Egypt for 13 years; Pythagoras (known as the father of Pythagoras Theorem) studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Egypt for 22 years; Thales, the first Greek philosopher studied in Egypt for years.

We are great people whose wisdom and knowledge is so powerful that we can do anything we set our eyes on. What we need right now is the zest, passion, determination, and unity to take back our greatness. There is nothing a black man cannot do if he sets his mind to it.

25/09/2022

12/09/2022

Lets check good fight

12/09/2022

John Edmonstone was an enslaved black man who taught the young and inexperienced Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill benefitted Darwin in the preservation of birds, which brought about his ideas about evolution.

In the quest to study medicine, a boyish 16-year-old Charles Darwin went to Edinburgh in 1825. However, he displayed little interest in the subject and only stayed for two years. He disliked the feeling of sitting through surgeries, which in those days were still performed without anaesthesia. Darwin stayed with his brother Erasmus at 11 Lothian street, near Edmonstone’s quarter.

As a way of utilizing the idle time he had, Darwin decided to take lessons from John on bird taxidermy. “A negro lived in Edinburgh, who had travelled with Waterton, and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds, which he did excellently: he gave me lessons for payment, and I used often to sit with him, for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man”, Charles Darwin highlighted in his autobiography.

In a nutshell, John played a majorly instrumental role in promoting Darwin’s scientific research. Without the adventurous stories and the skill of taxidermy Edmonston taught Darwin, we probably may have little idea about evolution or the theories proffered.

Click on the link below to read the full story 👇🏿
https://theafricandreamsl.com/john-edmonstone-the-enslaved-black-man-who-taught-charles-darwin-the-skill-of-taxidermy-a-skill-that-made-the-theory-of-evolution-possible/

12/09/2022

People called Mary McLeod Bethune "The First Lady of The Struggle." The struggle was improving life for African Americans.

Born in 1875 in a small cabin close to Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary was the fifteenth of seventeen children of formerly enslaved parents.

From a young age, Mary was inspired to learn. With encouragement from her parents, she'd walk five miles a day to attend the mission school nearby. The experience set a foundation for her life. "The whole world opened to me when I learned to read," Mary would say.

For Mary, her love for learning evolved into a profession of teaching. And after some years of being a teacher, Mary opened the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training Institute for Negro Girls in 1904. The initial class of six students learned from a curriculum that began at 5:30 am with Bible study and continued throughout the day, focusing on developing self-sufficiency skills until the school day ended at 9 pm.

Mary had a motto for life: "not for myself, but for others." Following this creed, she dedicated herself to many initiatives throughout life. Amongst educating young students, she opened a hospital and training programs for nurses, took an active role in politics - holding several positions including Director of Negro Affairs at the National Youth Administration, and helped integrate organizations such as the Red Cross.

Mary passed away in 1955. In her Last Will and Testament, she wrote nine maxims - "I leave you to love. I leave you to hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave your faith. I leave you racial dignity. I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow men. I leave you a responsibility to our young people."

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Sources: Coursen, W. L. (William Ludlow), 1880-1967. Mary McLeod Bethune - Daytona Beach, Florida. 1915 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 29 Nov. 2021.. / https://www.cookman.edu/history/our-founder.html / https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/341166?id=1

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12/09/2022

This brought tears to my eyes 😭

I found out my daughter had an affair with a boy for five years. She never spoke about it as she is always afraid of me. Apart from that, I assumed my children always hated me for the job I have been doing since my childhood. I asked her to bring the boy and his family to our house. I decorated the house like a new bride and bought the best food for them. I have been saving for my daughter’s marriage for twenty years. That day my daughter was the happiest I had ever seen her. When the boy’s family started the conversation they brought out a note of demands. They wanted all the material things a family needs. I was calculating and nodding in agreement with every word they said. After all, it’s about the happiness of my daughter. The last point was that they did not want me to introduce myself in front of their relatives and that I should never go to visit my daughter. The moment they said that, my daughter screamed in anger and by surprising all, she slapped the boy. She angrily said, ‘My father can do the thing that no one else can do. Not everyone can clean the messes of others. I am proud of what he does and if you do not leave my house in one minute, I will beat you all.’ She broke the marriage proposal and ended her five-year relationship in one second. From that day on, I knew how fortunate and happy a person I am.’

- Sweeper Monu lal

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12/09/2022

At the age of 24, John Roy Lynch born on September 10, 1847 became the first African American speaker of the Mississippi state house in 1872. He served as the only Black Representative in the U.S House from Mississippi for over a century. Lynch was an outspoken advocate for the Civil Rights Bill of 1875 and an active Republican throughout his long life. Politician, military officer, lawyer, businessman, photographer and author, Lynch was born into enslavement on a Louisiana plantation and later moved to Mississippi with his mother, and became free under the Emancipation Proclamation.

His father was an Irish immigrant and his parents had a common-law marriage. After serving for several years in the state legislature, in 1873 Lynch was elected as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives serving from 1873 to 1877 and again in the 1880s. Faced with increasing restrictions in Mississippi, Lynch studied law, passed the bar, and returned to Washington, DC to set up a practice. In 1884 Lynch became the first Black person to deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Convention.

He served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and for a decade into the early 1900s, achieving the rank of major. After retiring, Lynch moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he lived for more than two decades. After his military service, Lynch was active in law and real estate in Chicago. Beginning in 1877, when Reconstruction ended with the federal government withdrawing its troops from the South, Lynch wrote and published 2 books analyzing the political situation in the South during and after Reconstruction.

Before he died at age 92, Lynch published two more books and several articles, his autobiography, Reminiscences of an Active Life and The Facts of Reconstruction (1913). It is available online at the Gutenberg Project. In it, he argued against the prevailing view of the Dunning School, conservative white historians who downplayed Black contributions and the achievements of the Reconstruction era. Lynch emphasized how significant was the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which granted full citizenship to all persons without restriction of race or color, and suffrage to minority males.

Lynch was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., and his autobiography was finally published in 1970, edited by noted historian John Hope Franklin. Mississippi would not elect another Black Representative until Mike Espy, who was elected in November 1986, over 100 years later. died on November 2, 1939.

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05/09/2022

American heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali walks through the streets with members of the Black Panther Party, New York, New York, September 1970. Ali was sentenced to five years in prison and his championship title revoked after he was convicted of draft evasion upon his refusal to serve with the American army in Vietnam upon grounds of conscientious objection. The decision was overtuned in 1971 but Ali became a figurehead of resistance and a hero of the people.

01/09/2022

27/06/2022

27/06/2022

Ni wale tu wanaojua ‘marketing’ ndiyo wataelewa anachokifanya . Kiufupi, the dude is simply a marketing and promotion genius in his own right! No one like Haji in Tanzanian soccer. He is a living legend that our grandchildren shall read about him.

18/05/2022

Freedom fighter, Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro (September 10, 1938 – May 9, 1968) after his arrest, March 7, 1966.
Before Ojukwu, there was Boro. Before Biafra, there was the Niger Delta Republic.
Boro was an undergraduate student of Chemistry and student union president at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, but he left school to lead an armed protest against the exploitation of oil and gas resources in the Niger Delta areas which benefited mainly the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Eastern region with capital at Enugu.
Boro believed that the people of the area deserved a larger share of the proceeds of the oil wealth because nothing was given to the Niger Delta people. He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, an armed militia with members consisting mainly of his fellow Ijaw ethnic group, declared the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966, and fought Nigeria's federal forces for 12 days but were eventually defeated.
Boro and his comrades were then jailed by the Aguiyi-Ironsi Federal Military Government for treason.
Before he declared the Niger Delta Republic, Boro's father, a learned educationist, had offered his son sponsorship abroad to further his education rather than take up arms against the government. The senior Boro feared that the action would ruin the family but Boro rejected his father’s offer.
He explained that: "The Ijaws were going into perpetual bo***ge; if we do not strike now, not only our families but also the entire Ijaws would be infernally chained.”
On his declaration of the secession of the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966, Boro exclaimed:
"Today is a great day, not only in your lives but also in the history of the Niger Delta. Perhaps, it will be the greatest day for a very long time. This is not because we are going to bring the heavens down, but because we are going to demonstrate to the world what and how we feel about oppression.
"Remember your 70-year-old grandmother who still farms before she eats; remember also your poverty-stricken people; remember, too, your petroleum which is being pumped out daily from your veins; and then fight for your freedom.
"Before today, we were branded robbers, bandits, terrorists, or gangsters, but after today, we shall be heroes of our land."
However, Boro went on to fight for Nigeria against Biafra during the Civil War but was killed under mysterious circumstances in active service on May 9, 1968, at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State. He was 29.

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