βFor decades, our community has drawn strength and empowerment from the understanding that we have a beautiful history outside of our collective enslavement and oppression.β Letβs learn and keep with us our history. Not their white washed history. π· ppl wants us to believe they saved us from poverty. They did not. They took us from knowing our truths and in turn dehumanized us which taught us to hate ourselves. Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt, Amina of Zaria, Yaa Asantewaa of the Ashanti Empire, Kandake Amanirenas Egypt, c. 40 BC - c. 10 BC, Ana Nzinga Angola, 1583-1663, Nandi of the Zulu Kingdom, Makeda of Ethiopia Ethiopia, c. 10th Century BCE,
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