African Descendants ✊🏿 Black People - Americas, Africa, Caribbean Culture Discussion

[gry60]

Contemporary African Royals, in Regalia and Complexity

A new photography exhibition at London’s Tate Modern includes images of monarchs from across the continent, steering away from Western imagery.

www.nytimes.com

In countries taken over by France, the French “tried to abolish the tribal institution,” Adesina added, but elsewhere, different regions continue to have monarchies, now with ceremonial roles rather than constitutional powers, representing the groups that existed before the continent was colonized.

It sucks when interesting work gets overshadowed by ignorance.

Monarchies in French colonies continued to exist because they played the role of intermediaries between colonial administrators and the local populations. Their role wasn't just ceremonial; they helped colonial authorities reshape the local cultures by facilitating the introduction of western norms and behaviors to their populations. The local monarchies gave legitimacy to missionary institutions (schools and churches) by using their own relevance to the people to echo the policies of the colonial powers.

To this day, a lot of these traditional institutions continue to fulfill the role liaison between the administration and their populations, especially in countries where the political power is centralized in the capital. These monarchies are an integral element of the systems of government, even though they exist outside the electoral process.

 

[layziegunts]

Damn I missed it, I literally like 10 blocks away lol

MSN

 

[tomdiginson]

Damn I missed it, I literally like 10 blocks away lol

MSN

Back in the day they use to have Nyabinghi quite often in Prospect park.

 

[layziegunts]

Back in the day they use to have Nyabinghi quite often in Prospect park.

Breddrin, one day I was taking a morning jog couple years ago and I hear them drums banging at like 5 am MAD LOUD

 

[layziegunts]

NT Breddrin’s I went to Dakar, Senegal couple weeks ago and never got a chance to post some photos (and I had some trouble uploading them) big up the black diaspora worldwide ️

 

[layziegunts]

 

[layziegunts]

HBD to my GOAT

 

[DripNick]

Our Goat*

 

[DaKidFromHaiti]

Never forget when this was a daily double on Jeopardy and this dude’s answer was “New Zealand”.

 

[spiderjericho]

Had no idea he was Haitian American. Lol. He so crazy.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[gry60]

In Asebu, Ghana, land offered as part of the project to attract the diaspora appears to be taken away from local farmers...

 

[DCAllAfrican]

addict4sneakers

 

[gry60]

addict4sneakers

What's the context? It makes more sense for him to play for the US than for France.

And Cameroonian NBA players have never played for the Cameroon team.

 

[layziegunts]

The thread is still alive

 

[Grine]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[dipsetgeneral]

#TeamGhana checking in.

 

[fluid hips]

That voodoo shh don't work. Got a cousin that's always telling me about bad spirits working against him. Like nah how about making better choices and taking responsibility for your actions

 

[DaKidFromHaiti]

These aren't white Haitians, judging by their butchered *** creole they just look like white Americans infatuated by the culture. Most "white" Haitians don't look like this and for the most part are generally white passing mulattos or they're Syrian or Lebanese.

 

[Mark Antony]

Yeah people really don't know the racial makeup of Caribbean countries.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

"Climate gentrification "

 

[layziegunts]

Dont post ANYTHING from that twitter account, its full of hate.

 

[Grine]

 

[tr1ll]

^I want to give that post a and a . I HATE those voice over posts tho.