BlackButterfly

Selflove as a form of activism.

[selltohell]

[kushandwizdom]

Listen...

[kckc901]

Yes 🙏🏼

[mindofserenity]

[inaabo]

Seen in Thornpark,Lusaka Zambia

2016

[inaabo]

Have learnt to take care of plants and how to propagate, I feel so proud to see all my babies flourishing,can’t wait to have an organic garden when I move to Zambia next month🌱💚

[hornafrican]

I need to have this LP asap! So, so good.

Interesting story too:

With the attack (of Hargeisa) imminent, a few brave radio operators and dedicated vanguards of Somali culture knew the archives, containing over half a century of Somali music had to be preserved. Thousands upon thousands of cassette tapes and master reels were quickly removed from the soon-to-be targeted buildings. They were dispersed to neighboring countries like Djibouti and Ethiopia, and buried deep under the ground to withstand even the most powerful airstrikes.

These audio artifacts were excavated and recalled from their foreign shelters only very recently. Some of those recordings are now kept safe in the 10,000-strong cassette tape archive of the Red Sea Foundation, the largest collection of Somali cassettes in the world, in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa. The Ostinato Records team digitized a large portion of the archive, distilling 15 songs that reveal the panoramic diversity of styles and sophistication of Somali musicianship.

Over a millennia of trade in the Indian Ocean invited the cultures of the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, India, Southeast Asia, and even China to slowly work their melodies, scales, and sounds into Somalia’s rich musical repertoire. Each track is a keen illustration of a carefully refined, rarely revealed cultural crossroads of the world.

The archive offered a living window to the Mogadishu of the 1970s and 1980s, when the coastal capital glistened as the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean." With its iconic ivory-colored architecture and crescent beaches overlooking the Indian Ocean, Mogadishu was home to the lavish Al Uruba and Jazira sea side hotels, where youthful bands like Iftiin, Sharero, and Dur Dur serenaded cosmopolitan crowds at some of the most elegant nightclubs in East Africa. These damaged cassettes evoked memories of the revered national theater, where Waaberi Band provided unforgettable soundtracks.

"This record is a miracle. A legacy of the past that blurs the trauma of the present."

-- Le Monde

"Perhaps the most beautiful music in the world, finally rediscovered."

-- Radio Nova Paris

[inaabo]

Feeling sad & confused and an overwhelming urge to just run away... can’t really explain why...

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

Why must your art be "good"? Isn't it enough to explore your medium on your own terms, joyfully?

[queentinqz]

Rihanna for Harper’s Bazaar by Gray Sorrenti, September 2020

[umm4lkhayri]

[inaabo]

Book 2 of 2020

[missguidedsoul-deactivated20201]

عملوا أولادكم أن الحب حلال؛ وأن الحب أخلاق, وأن الأنثى أمانة, وليست للإهانة, الأنثى كرامة, علموهم أن الأنثى وطن والوطن لا يخان

Teach your children that love is halal; love is manners, and that the female is a trust, not to insult; the female is an honour. Teach them that the female is a homeland and a homeland is to always be protected, not betrayed. 

[darkmelaningirls-deactivated202]

Kofi Siriboe on his love for black women

[luvmangosdope]

😍😍😍

[thinkofitasablessing]

[just-shower-thoughts]

The reason most people think raising boys is easier than raising girls is that they don’t raise their boys.

[rm-drake-lines]

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

london blm protest, june 2020