Colonialism
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Very instructive thread. At one point the Indian (Indian origin) chair of the department starts insinuating racism because the skin color in their department has been called out 😂...
The story of Oluwa of Lagos - Chief Amodu Tijani . The man who Took Britain to Court in 1921 for Stealing His Land and Won £22,500,39 A thread Retweet to educate someone https:/...
The US pretends to care about LGBTQ rights but it in fact foment the anti-LGBTQ sentiments around the world, and then uses that as a pretext to sanction & re-colonize countries lik...
The Battle of Plassey and Siraj Ud Daulah forgetting.... tarpaulin covers! The Brit Eic army was tiny, 3,000 all told. Siraj had a 40k strong army but also overwhelming arty cover...
In 1730, Ayuba Diallo, a Fulani prince from Senegal was on his way home after selling 2 Mandinka slaves to an English slave ship, he was captured by a rival Mandinka faction, retur...
🧵[1/n] #IndenturedLabour: The saga of 🇬🇧British colonizers replacing slavery with indentured labor, subjecting millions of Indian-origin workers to abuse and exploitation. In this...
STORY OF JAJA OF OPOBO: THE SLAVE BOY WHO BECAME KING AND WAS ENVIED BY THE BRITISH A THREAD Retweet To Educate Someone https://t.co/u0dorPiLVO
Story Of The Man Who Sold All His Territories To The British For £865,000 (pounds) IN 1899 and The British later Amalgamated Them To What Is Now Known As Nigeria A thread Retw...
Story of Madam Efunroye Tinubu The woman Tinubu Square was named after. During the slave trade in Nigeria, she was one of the slave traders, she sold her own people to portuguese....
British made up the lies of Thuggees & “human sacrifice” to demonize Kali worship. Thuggees originated from 7 Muslim tribes. Later Hindu converts also joined. There’s no evidence o...
13th March 1940, Shri Udham Singh shot Michael O Dwyer. But Did you know General Dwyer was awarded for his role in Jallianwala bagh massacre? Do you know who gave him the award?
Prime example of a colonized mind from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Recognition only matters when it comes from your white colonial masters. 1/ https://t.co/wBFAw9...
Ramachandrapant Amatya: Opinion on European Colonizers. 100 Years before British Invasion 📜 Contrary to propaganda, Hindus were aware of Colonialist threat. Marathas defused Port...
Hindutva claims to embody Hindu pride, and a rejection of colonialism and white racism. Nevertheless virtually every proponent of Hindutva agrees with the following statement (ex...
Great Britain would use its superpower might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery, despite this evil being the global norm. A thread on how under the Union Jack, sla...
FRANCE’S WAR IN THE SAHEL AND THE EVOLUTION OF COUNTERINSURGENCY DOCTRINE 🧵🧵🧵🧵 🧵🧵🧵🧵 https://t.co/6kD9prh506
Macron's new Africa strategy, https://t.co/FxPI2DAgPa
A Christian Missionary Who Destroyed Northeast India with help of first prime minister of India. https://t.co/IGxKpIsdgc
The discussion on Indian famine history keeps relapsing into a sterile debate on the mentalities of states. Did the British care? Did indigenous states care more? This is a useless...
@mackee_F @Onitaset People were colonized. There's no colonial legacy that exists somewhere outside of African people's minds. As a Pan-Africanist, I'm telling you that emphasizing...
All the Western accounts of "human sacrifices" by the indigenous should be taken with a grain of salt. All of this was standard atrocity narrative about native cultures generated b...
I expected such questions. But I have data and am informed. In British India, today's Pakistan region was growing at 1.6% per annum whereas India only at 0.4% per annum. Pakistan...
"One of the major splits among the Mau Mau fighting forces came not long after a Parliament was formed. It came during a trial…” — Field Marshal Musa Mwariama M'Kīrīgua M’Mūchīr...
To deal with deep rooted issues and bring about an identity level change, first we have to acknowledge the existence of this ailment. #Decolonization [Picture Thread] https://t.c...
