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LAWD the cheeks! Kenema, Sierra Leone #Babies #Africa (Taken with Instagram)

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doctorswithoutborders:

Refugees in South Sudan: “We Walked for Six Days … With Nothing But Our Clothes”

“We were on the road for two months. Many villages we went through kept being bombed, so we had to keep fleeing. We had food for two weeks, then we ran out. We ate the lalop fruit and leaves from trees. We gave food for the children mostly, and some days we had nothing to eat. Some people got very sick and we had to leave some by the road—we could not carry them and they were too weak to continue.”

—28-year-old mother of six childrenPhoto: Refugees fleeing conflict and food insecurity in the Nuba Mountains face insufficient levels of assistance in Yida camp.

South Sudan 2012 © Sally McMillan

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theblackme:

AFRICA: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Puts Internalized Racism Into Focus
Oz fans may remember Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as the vicious convict Simon Adebisi, but the British-Nigerian actor was also featured in the hit series Lost as Mr. Eko, the reboot of horror classic, The Thing and HBO’s upcoming American spy seriesHunted. While Akinnuoye-Agbaje builds an impressive rep for his onscreen talent, it’s his role behind the camera that may be the most intriguing of all.
Farming is the title of the film project that chronicles Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s complex upbringing: A journey in which a confused, adandoned Black Brit who once was skinhead, attained a law degree, became a successful actor and learned to embrace his identity. The term farming refers to a practice common in 1960’s-70’s Britain, particularly among foreign students such as Adewale’s. At 6 weeks of age, the actor’s Nigerian parents put him (and eventually his 2 sisters) under the foster care of a working class white couple in the UK dockside town of Tilbury, while they continued their studies in London. The Andrew Anthony of The Guardian reported:……….

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wondersofafrica:

(by Vincent Bournazel)
White Desert, Egypt

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Songs we would never hear! Histories we would never know! Art we will never see! Because the European had the capacity to destroy and didn’t have the moral restraint not to

— Maulana Karenga (via poetprose25)

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