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Arshad “Tshawe” Suliman
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Coloured South African 🇿🇦 | PhD Candidate: Black Canadian History & Southern African Liberation Movements. Mayibuye
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Salaamat, Cape Town.
This city is my home.
This city is in my blood.

The Masjids.
The Community.
The Mountain.
The salt in the wind.
It all knows my name.
Not a hero
June 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The violence of the archive
June 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
June 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
June 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
May 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Salaamat, Cape Town.
This city is my home.
This city is in my blood.

The Masjids.
The Community.
The Mountain.
The salt in the wind.
It all knows my name.
May 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Not me C-Walking to “they not like us”
February 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
January 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
January 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I have yet to hear one mainstream Canadian politician going on about the cost of living crisis talk about the need to increase wages. These people are NOT serious.
December 23, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Why in the blue hell did I choose to come to Indigo on the 23rd
a close up of a baby 's face with the words " ugh " on the bottom
ALT: a close up of a baby 's face with the words " ugh " on the bottom
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December 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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The hidden human toll in Congo as the world seeks cobalt for use in electric cars.

Resource rich Congo should be an economic powerhouse with its resources - instead it's extracted on the cheap and the people suffer.
In the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), increasing numbers of babies are being born with birth defects mostly due to a huge surge in the global demand for cobalt used in lithium batteries for electric cars.

The DRC, esp. Katanga region, has 60% of the world’s reserves.
Babies born with deformities near DRC’s cobalt mines
Doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have noticed a high rate of birth defects in babies born near cobalt mines.Demand for the metal is soaring, as we...
youtu.be
December 8, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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This the one. Everyone else can stop.
December 7, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Y’ALL HERE THE BAND?!?!
December 6, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Doechii Tiny Desk is out now!

Run, don’t walk!
Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 5:34 PM
December 5, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Good morning
December 2, 2024 at 11:02 AM