kennyeast

2y

What the f*** is this thread

XENOFLAWLESS

2y

"Who's your favorite negro of all time" is a lowkey wild statment

allmygirlsdoyoga

2y

Yeah I’m not letting this thread fly with that title. Ima need you to change the title @op

Scratchin Mamba

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But the GOAT is Thomas Sankara:

A pan-African Marxist revolutionary who was President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara”

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987. – He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed women to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself

A true legend

This speech is a must watch:

But the sad part of this story is the way it ended. In the speech above he predicted his own death when he said that if African nations don't come together against colonial debt, he won't be there to do a speech at the next AOS summit, and he was right. In 1987 he was assassinated and his government overthrown by his friend and right hand man Blaise Compaoré, with the help of their former colonizer France, and the country hasn't been the same since. But his legacy lives on

I highly recommend this documentary:

HaroldsChicken

2y

LIKE ITS A ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROJECT

Chubby Gambino

2y

Ariana Grande. She got such a soulful voice

C O Z Y x

2y

This was mad constructive and informational finna check out this speech in a few

JohnCena

2y

KOBE

JaeRell

2y

Thread off to a horrible start. I don't even know why Steve Harvey is your favorite negro.

C O Z Y x

2y

That nigga 🅿️

HaroldsChicken

2y

Thread vibes

C O Z Y x

2y

I’m black. We good .

Jody

2y

Why cant yall be normal