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Press Play Chapter 11: Rebellious Historians
March 14, 2020·By Nifemi Aluko
Sound reflected
Furniture factory in Accra, Ghana 2015Swame Magazine Kumasi, Ghana 2015
across time
Entrance to female slave dungeons at the Cape Coast Slave CastleSlave dungeons for the men too
gives us perpetual
Conquest is the gameFOKN Bois
moments of documentation
Who built these structures of oppression?What’s the agreed-upon concept of beauty that leads toYellow Fever – Warning: Skin Bleaching is Dangerous To Your Health! “Your Face Go Yellow Your Yansh Go Black” – Fela KutiIn 1900, Yaa Asantewaa led the Ashanti war known as the War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Yaa Asantewaa war, against British colonialism. She is seen by Ghanaians today as a queen mother who exercised her political and social clout to help defend her kingdom. The experience of seeing a woman serving as political and military head of an empire was foreign to British colonial troops in 19th-century Africa.