#askaris

[lankosiwrites]

Don’t come at me with lies especially where my passion is concerned my baby. Lana we deal with facts, also avoid using sensationalist content to justify the bile you spew in my presence…there’ll surely be a decline from my end.

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[thisdayinwwi]

Dec 8 1916 in WWI

The Daily Telegram. December 8 1916

The Belgian native troops (Askaris) who are helping the allies conquer German East Africa are recruited from the various Congo tribes. They are long service men, being enlisted for a term of nine years, are of fine physique and make excellent warriors. They are commanded by white officers.

[lankosiwrites]

One For The Mice 🐀

Are you truly doing what you aspired to when you were new in the very same space you are currently leading?Have you accomplished the collective goal you had set with your team when you came into office? Or did the wallets of those who are drunk on a power they feel entitled to hush the voices that reminded you of your actual mission? Before you cry victim, sit down and ask yourself what good…

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[lankosiwrites]

Now that the gloves are off and the masters are tired, where to from here?

Fireworks went off and champagne bubbled from every corner, you had the oppressors clapping hands for you and the enslaved celebrating your appointment as our number one. Promising the majority a free and fair country where corruption had no room or thieves wouldn’t dare steal from the public! Now as the years went by instead of eradicating the problems you claim to have found or inherited from…

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[lankosiwrites]

Thomas Sankara

The void that exists in Africa with regards to leaders who are capable and genuine to the cause continues to deepen. Instead of improving the living conditions of their people, todays leaders float on the waves made by revolutionary leaders who came before them. We no longer have leaders of integrity and vision. Source This Monday we tell the story of a young and radical leader who was among…

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[lankosiwrites]

What Did He Do?

I always wondered what this white man was about unlike now where the media makes sure they finish his character whenever they get the chance to. Despite knowing that he was never a darling of the media because of his boldness, it always shocks me to see how the reporting style has gone back to that of the apartheid era, the only difference now is, there’s a new face of the regime and it controls…

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[lankosiwrites]

The Thieves Strike Again

The violence we speak of has nothing to do with inflicting pain on others, threatening those who oppose your views and bullying the women who are strong enough to speak their truth that has nothing to do with you.This was the first and last BBGM I am to attend, where nothing but criminals float around promising to destroy the lives of those who don’t agree with them. As a woman in the…

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[yohane23]

KAMUZWAZI : a village with World War History

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