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as well as finding ways to amplify the amazing work that Sona Jobarteh and Baba Ceesay are accomplishing.

I shamelessly used the opportunity re-promote and gift the book I co-wrote ("A Bilingual Revolution for Africa" by CALEC) where I make points about the importance of learning in our languages.

Honestly, when I read that he was doing MMA I thought he'd be elite because he has the means to train with the best coaches. I'm sure me and the people I train with are better if that video is how he really performs

These people call each other bitch every other minute but are supportive on socials. I can't even get my friends to interact 🙃

Whatever your belief is. Read it in the key of you.

Sexist men see it as proof of our lack of intellect. I see it as the love that Allah has for Awa's daughters. If I misunderstand or misremeber something, I have back up. A man doesn't and will have to be held accountable for his mistake

The context had to do with finances/economy, something that women back then weren't generally familiar with. It doesn't apply to other spheres for a woman's testimony is equal to a man's

Patriarchal, sexist Muslim men LOVE using that small excerpt of "2 women witnesses = 1 man witness" to reinforce and justify their idea that we're naturally less intelligent than them

And colonialism, Victorian values, European creed etc etc etc

Silamiya has been repackaged so much, who knows what it is anymore. You think you're being a silamɛ, but they fed you patriarchy or Arabness with a label that reads "Islam". Just a disguise

But just like men did, they re-infused and corrupted the deen with parts of their culture that Islam condemned.

"Son Fo" sung by Sékouba Bambino for Africando

Latin music has, of course, African roots. So when you add the African sounds of other diasporas and the continent it's always a banger