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yagazieemezi:

Fali (Cameroon) mother and child. The baby carrier is made out of the same Millet fibers that they use to make their thatched roof houses and baskets. In most cases these carriers are beaded as seen here.

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Zulu women in traditional headdress

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James Baldwin, “The Price of the Ticket”

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James Seipei (1974–1988), also known as Stompie Moeketsi, was a teenage African National Congress (ANC) activist from Parys in South Africa. He was kidnapped and murdered on 29 December 1988 by members of Winnie Mandela’s bodyguards, known as the Mandela United football club.
Moeketsi joined the street uprising against apartheid in the mid 1980s at age ten, and soon took on a leading role. He became the country’s youngest political detainee when he spent his 12th birthday in jail without trial. At the age of 13 he was expelled from school.

Moeketsi was kidnapped on 29 December 1988 after a school rally, accused of being a police informer and murdered at the age of 14. His body was found in Soweto with his throat slit. Jerry Richardson, one of Winnie Mandela’s bodyguards, was convicted of the murder.

He claimed that she had ordered him to abduct four young men from Soweto, of whom Stompie was the youngest. The four were severely beaten and Stompie’s body was later recovered by the police.

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yanorayanora:

Egyptian woman, ca. 1939 | Photographer unknown

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Lauryn Hill was the first woman to be nominated for 10 awards in Grammy Awards History, and won 5 of them

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Algeria, August 1973

Hands gleaming darkly with the indigo dye that colours her robe, a woman of the Tuareg- wandering Berbers of the Sahara- clasps her traditions close. The incised brass key marks her as guardian of the family’s saddlebags.

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luminousmk:

Reading. So thick it’s almost impossible to curl up in bed to, but it’s just too good not to try!

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dynamicafrica:

Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.

1980s.

Read more about the critical roles women played during the anti-Apartheid struggle.

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