Colonialism
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1/ Thread on In Defense of German Colonialism: https://t.co/rYqHHkAfGK
Oluwa of Lagos - Chief Amodu Tijani Took Britain to Court in 1921 for Stealing His Land and Won £22,500,39 Thread! Retweet https://t.co/G7lNQUoS3a
Berlin 1884, The conference that divided Africa. The colonizers sat in Berlin in Germany 🇩🇪 to divide Africa among themselves as their personal and private properties. This was do...
Dalhousie is a beautiful hill station, near town of Chamba in Chamba district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is named after Lord Dalhousie. Who is he? Lets dive into...
Fun fact: The term "Dreadlock" was first used by the British soldiers in 1950s Kenya to describe the Mau Mau warriors because of the sense of dread their appearance instilled in Br...
After Guinea declared independence from France in 1958, the French were so furious , they set out to undo everything they had done in Guinea. They dismantled railway tracks, dug up...
During the last years of the Santa Elena colony while the Spanish were massacring the French another country planted a settlement in what is now Carolina on Roanoke Island in moder...
They are. They built ships and devised compasses to voyage hitherto unknown shipping routes and designed maps along the way. Then they landed on our shores, traded with, us selli...
#Mythbusting #Colonialism #India Colonizers corrupted the textbooks saying British introduced Apple to India. This thread busts the myth with verified resources. https://t.co/yW...
🧵 thread 1/11 Here is proof that I.M Lewis was deliberately manipulating somali history I.M Lewis an British colonial historian was deliberately manipulating somali history and w...
The major difference between Mughal And Islamic Sultanate colonisation and British Colonization, was that the Mughals and the Sultanate, tried to do it by sword. British did it vi...
If you ever wondered how the East India Company managed to rule India, look no further than the mindset on display in this tweet. https://t.co/QcI1uwrEn6
Hickel’s “response” makes their claim that British colonial rule caused famines in India even weaker than it was before. Since a fuller critique is expected to appear in History Re...
The popular misconception that Shudra education started with the Phules is just that - a myth. Already the 1824 Survey in Bombay Presidency established that there were a lot of mix...
"Many (French soldiers who fought in Algeria) returned home appalled by what they had witnessed and traumatized by what they had done: violations of human rights, forced resettlem...
1. The French and Russian Threat to India: British Defense of the Empire and Geopolitical Vigilance This is when the British started getting alarmed by the advance of Russia. http...
A legacy of Colonialism & US imperialism: 🧵 Lord Cromer, the British ruler of occupied Egypt, was "despot abroad and democrat at home," just as much as he was "feminist abroad, bu...
@azarnafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is about how Iranian women are waiting to be liberated from their barbaric menfolk by American soldiers. In this thread 🧵, lets take a look...
One of the most common answers to the question"Why British partitioned India", has been that the Muzli!ms in India dint want to stay with Hindus . However, a deeper look from geop...
White supremacism seems centred around the glorification of the Scandinavian race, their mythology & the exaggeration of the Viking's prowess in history. Adolf Hitler promoted the...
A few examples of this, are the Great Kingdom of Kongo, The Jollof empire of Senegambia, the Shambaa kingdom of Tanzania...Long established states that all rapidly disintegrated in...
France has the 4th largest gold reserve in the world. How? France holds 90% of the gold reserves of 15 African countries and pays 0% interest on what it makes from those reserves...
A lot of the modern discourse on "progress" is rooted in pantheist or deist ideas that Allah is everywhere/dwells in everything, and that all creation is gradually "becoming" or re...
REFUTING THE MOST COMMON SECULARIST MYTH Secularists are trashing xtianity by saying that europe was a dump. Secularization made europe economically, scientifically amd cultura...
