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13:12 a new language for connecting us

❛❛ 13:12 is an ambitious new cross-artform work from #artist Lamine Sonko presenting an exploration of how #WestAfrican #music & #storytelling is informed by the #science of #cosmology, #astrophysics & #mathematics and how this #translates to the #human experience of time & space. ❜❜ 6-min #video

🔗 https://Vimeo.com/338503498 2019 May 26
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_West_Africa

#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #language #art #film #Black #experience #Kronodon

Earliest evidence for ochre processing in #WestAfrican #MiddleStoneAge #Senegal c.37 Ka

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324002188

Explore how local West African ingredients promote sustainability and preserve rich culinary traditions.

#westafrican #westafricanfood #foodhistory #sustainable #localfood #farmtotable

https://www.recipesandroots.ca/sustainability/the-role-of-local-ingredients-in-sustainable-culinary-practices-celebrating-west-african-food-heritage

#BurkinaFaso #bans "#homosexuality and #associated #practices"

It makes the #WestAfrican nation the latest of the continent's 54 #countries to follow a #trend in #banning #samesex #relations being spearheaded by #Western #religous #Hategroups.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ChristianDarkMoney #ExportingHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burkina-faso-ban-homosexuality-africa-coup-belt-niger-mali-lurch-to-russia-china/

good evening #music #1980s #electronic #westafrican #williamonyeabor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnTxm1u_34

In 2017 #Gambia, a predominantly Muslim #WestAfrican country, filed a case against #Myanmar at the #ICJ accusing it of committing genocide against the #Rohingya, a minority Muslim group in Myanmar. #ASEAN #SoutheastAsia #MyanmarCrisis #TheHague

#France, #Britain and others allowed to intervene in Myanmar ICJ #genocide case
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/world/912185/france-britain-and-others-allowed-to-intervene-in-myanmar-icj-genocide-case/story/

Back toot: https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112688731424856185

⬆️ #Coup-hit #Niger was betting on a #China-backed oil #pipeline as a lifeline. Then the troubles began.

The linked story below explains why Niger might have revoked the #French company’s uranium mining permit reported above.

With Niger tilting towards #Russia and neighboring #Benin aligned with #France and the #WestAfrican bloc, China has tried to step in and resolve the impasse and benefit from its investment in the project.

#Chinese #DebtDiplomacy

https://apnews.com/article/niger-benin-oil-pipeline-china-agadem-coup-01891707e30450361eeaedbb3daf7bce

Via #Reuters

#Russian military personnel have entered air base in #Niger that is hosting US troops, a senior US defense official told Reuters, move that follows decision by Niger's junta 2 expel US forces
Military officers ruling #WestAfrican nation have told the US 2 withdraw its nearly 1000 military personnel from country, which until #coup last yr had been key partner 4 #Washington's fight against insurgents who have killed thousands o pple & displaced millions more

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russian-troops-enter-base-housing-us-military-niger-us-official-says-2024-05-02/

A Malian queen stands on her palace’s balcony.

#mali #westafrican #african #blackwoman #womanofcolor #medieval #digitalart #art #illustration #mastoart

#Homophobic #Laws Threaten #US-#Ghana Ties

The #WestAfrican #nation has long enjoyed a #special #relationship with #Washington—but proposed #antigay #legislation could imperil its #economy.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Ghana #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/18/ghana-lgbtq-homophobia-imf-world-bank-aid/

Aztec jaguar warriors against Malian cavalry!

#aztec #mesoamerican #mali #westafrican #african #medieval #alternatehistory #digitalart #art

#dinner (cooked by my husband— #spicy chicken stew) 😋 #westafrican

Queen Kassi of Mali, the wife of the Mansa Suleyman. His infidelity toward her sparked a civil war around 1352!

#mali #westafrican #african #queen #blackwoman #womanofcolor #digitalart #art

back to the future 3/9/22 - #Wagner — seen by US as a covert extension of the #Kremlin arrived in #Mali after a 2020 coup d’etat isolated the #WestAfrican country from its democratic partners. As Russia invades #Ukraine, the Kremlin is pushing to amplify influence worldwide, and ostensibly #privatemilitary groups like #Wagner offer a deniable way to advance its goals. Since 2016 Russian #mercenary footprint has grown from 4 to 28 nations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/mali-russia-wagner/

Aja, Yoruba orisha (divine entity) of the forest and herbal medicines.

#african #westafrican #blackwoman #goddess #digitalart #art

#Adamorobe , a #village in the #WestAfrican nation of #Ghana is known as the ‘#DeafCommunity ’ due to a high incidence of a #hereditary form of #deafness. The community has found an #innovative way to normalize their #HereditaryCondition by #developing their own #SignLanguage which has been adopted by both the #deaf # hearing people in the village. This is quite different from the formal standard sign language used in the school of the deaf.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/adamorobe-the-deaf-community-in-west-africa-that-developed-its-own-indigenous-sign-language/amp

#Indigenous #POC #Africa

This weekend I finally finished watching all of #IdrisElba's loosely-autobiographical #British sitcom #InTheLongRun. First, I will say it is a ton of fun and SUPER entertaining. Watch it if you can, ESPECIALLY if you have any #WestAfrican friends. (Mine had previously explained #mtchew to me which totally shows up in the show.) Ok, more thoughts in 🧵. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7464074/

West African roots
Rewriting New Orleans' story
Shared flavors of fame

#neworleans #westafrican #caribbean #cuisine #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/dining/black-chefs-new-orleans-history.html

Cliff of Bandiagara - Land of the Dogons. Mali (Mopti region). Founded: 1770
A UNESCO World Heritage site

"The Bandiagara site is a landscape of cliffs & sandy plateaus with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places). Several age-old social traditions are still practiced in the region (masks, feasts, rituals, & ceremonies involving ancestor worship) by the Dogon."

#Mali #WestAfrica #WestAfrican #Africa #Homes #Tradition #UNESCO