This is great but why do we always have to seek validation from Europeans before we appreciate ourselves? Once white people start wearing African clothes then we start wearing the clothes and appreciating them as well
We should appreciate our culture without any other people's validation.
They get abused, picked on, harassed, enslaved by everyone!
They have poor and weak nations! They hold no power as a race even though they are one of the biggest and oldest races on the planet…. Why is that?
Regardless of the reasons … the facts are …
African men are weak. They are coward. They have no balls. Their balls are not hard enough. They can’t defend their women, their land. They refuse to fight. They are afraid. Cowards men of Africa. The only reputation they have is for having big Dick!
They’d do anything possible to escape their responsibility to fight their enemies. They think praying some God in a sky will miraculously save them!
If God would save any nation by miraculous intervention, why then Israel, the chosen nation of God, has an army?
During the last 60 year, the West has lost all their wars in Asia, because Asian men are willing to fight, and defend their lands and culture, and they have learned how to structure their society to be impermeable to foreign invasions!
America has sent 150 000 soldiers in Afghanistan, with tens of other western countries armies, with the latest weapons and drones, but the determination of the afghan fighters made them understand that can’t win. Now they are leaving tails between broken legs!
With less than 500 French soldiers (don’t laugh), France is controlling Côte d’Ivoire a nation of over 20 millions people!
African man, harden your balls, get ready to fight.
Africa must gain a super power in order to gain power!! Then we can be respected in this world!!
For a people to be truly liberated, they must be independent: they must be powerful, and powerful enough to deter or defeat any attempts, by anyone whatsoever, to impose on them in any way. In other words, they must be truly sovereign; i.e. they must be able to act independently, without outside interference. For Back Africa to be truly liberated, it must have at least one superpower among its countries.
So let us shift from swatting the flies of white power and focus on building the countervailing Black African power that would negate this global white power. To create space for a black superpower, we must organize and defeat and expel the Black Colonialists from the countries of Black Africa, and take over the territories of ECOWAS and SADC and reconstruct them politically, economically, culturally and militarily into 21st century superpowers of G-8 rank.
obayaya: She didn't start slave trade and colonization, did she? She was born to rule a society colonization was the order of the day. And during her reign, the shackles of colonization loosened and lots of countries were allowed to choose their own destiny. And these countries she appear on their currency chose to honor her contribution by putting her there.
It is crazy how Africans are worshiping the image of the people who started the slave trade and colonization. Would Jewish people celebrate Adolf Hitler?
President Obama said Sunday that the U.S. military will begin aiding what has been a chaotic and ineffective response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, arguing that it represents a serious national security concern.
The move significantly ramps up the U.S. response and comes as the already strained military is likely to be called upon further to address militant threats in the Middle East. The decision to involve the military in providing equipment and other assistance for international health workers in Africa comes after mounting calls from some unlikely groups — most prominently the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders — demonstrating to the White House the urgency of the issue.
The epidemic, which has killed at least 2,100 people in five African countries, is unlikely to spread to the United States in the short term, Obama said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” But if the United States and other countries do not send needed equipment, public health workers and other supplies to the region, that situation could change and the virus could mutate to become more transmissible, he said.
“We’re going to have to get U.S. military assets just to set up, for example, isolation units and equipment there,” he said, “to provide security for public health workers surging from around the world.”
Even so, he warned that it would still take months to control the epidemic.
Last week, leading international health officials said the window for getting the epidemic under control is closing. Doctors Without Borders, one of the groups most active since the outbreak began months ago, faulted world leaders with failing to recognize the severity of the crisis sooner and said charities and West African governments alone do not have the capacity to stem the epidemic. The U.S. military, with its enormous logistical capacity and extensive air operations, could address gaps in the response quickly.
The medical group has long opposed military involvement by governments, but its international president, Joanne Liu, said the situation had become so desperate that it was now appealing for military assets to provide critical logistical and operational support. Priorities include the mass expansion of isolation centers, air bridges to move personnel and equipment to and within the most affected countries, mobile laboratories for testing and diagnosis, and building a regional network of field hospitals to treat suspected or infected medical personnel.
Only the military, Liu said in an interview Friday, has the rapid- deployment capability and chain-of-command structure necessary now. “Because the response has been so slow, we now have to switch to a mass-casualty response,” she said.
Ghana, for example, has agreed to make the international airport in Accra an air bridge for Ebola responses. Experts say the U.S. Air Force would be well suited to supply transport flights and personnel, as well as warehousing and logistics support at the airport.
The United Nations said last week that $600 million will be needed to fight the epidemic and deal with the broader economic and social devastation suffered by the hardest-hit countries — Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The U.S. government has spent more than $100 million in the region, according to Ned Price, a spokesman at the National Security Council. Last week, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced plans to make an additional $75 million available. More than 100 experts, most of them from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are deployed to the region in an effort to prevent, detect and halt the virus’s spread.
The Obama administration has also asked Congress for an additional $88 million to send more CDC personnel and lab supplies and equipment, Price said. The United States is providing logistical and operational support, including hundreds of thousands of units of personal protective equipment, mobile labs, water-treatment units, disinfectant, basic supplies and food assistance, he said. If Congress approves the additional funding, it will bring the U.S. total commitment to more than $250 million.
U.S. officials have been in talks with international organizations and aid groups. They declined to provide details of the military involvement outlined by the president. The Defense Department has already provided lab equipment, supplies and staff in Liberia. Military planners are also on the ground in the region to assess “how their unique capabilities can be used to improve logistics, provide lift capacity and increase treatment options,” said a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because planning is still underway.
A senior Defense Department official who was not authorized to comment publicly said the Pentagon has been supporting U.S. aid efforts and international organizations since the outbreak began. The department is “now working to fulfill a request to provide rapidly deployable medical treatment facilities that will help increase the capacity of the aid workers in West Africa,” he said.
Such facilities are akin to field hospitals that can treat several dozen people. At the moment, the defense official said, there are no requests to provide guns.
Outside experts have also been calling for an increased military effort and welcomed Obama’s announcement. “For several weeks there has been cross-talk, off the record, in Washington, and health advocates have urged the military to commit its resources to the Ebola crisis,” Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a statement Sunday. She is the author of “The Coming Plague,” which described the original Ebola outbreak in 1976 in Zaire, now known as Congo.
“The logistics and medical capacities of the U.S. Armed Forces are the best any military in the world has to offer — battle-tested, highly professional, extremely skilled,” she said. Detailed decisions have not yet been made, Garrett said.
But she said Obama’s comment signals “that — at last — we’re moving from ‘should we’ to ‘how much, where, and doing what’ — and this could be a game-changer.”
In its most recent update, on Friday, the World Health Organization said the death toll from the outbreak had soared past 2,000, with nearly 4,000 reported infected in West Africa. Those numbers are widely believed to represent only a portion of total cases. The fatality rate has varied widely — from 39 percent in Sierra Leone to 64 percent in Guinea — but averages more than 50 percent overall.
Whatever help arrives will not come too soon. Infections have mounted rapidly in recent days, and the situation in many places in West Africa has grown more uncertain, chaotic and desperate. Authorities in Sierra Leone said over the weekend that they would require people there to stay home for several days later this month to slow the disease’s spread. Health workers have raised concerns about that approach, saying it could prevent them from identifying and treating victims.
There was some confusion Sunday about Obama’s comments regarding the use of military assets to “provide security for public health workers surging from around the world.”
In an interview Sunday, Brice de le Vingne, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said he welcomed the increased U.S. response but was concerned about the security reference. Doctors Without Borders is not asking for military personnel to help with security, only logistics support, he said. It has 2,000 staffers working in the three countries. “We don’t have any security problems or constraints,” he said.
But the need for beds in isolation units is dire. In Monrovia, Liberia, where the disease is escalating exponentially daily, the group needs 800 to 1,000 isolation beds, de le Vingne said. The group’s current capacity there is between 150 and 180 beds.
“In the city, it is a catastrophe today,” he said. “We have people dying at our doorsteps at our treatment centers.”
anonymous6: good question, and to me I don't know, I don't think anybody knows but possibly there could be help from outside Africa or Africa has equipped themselves to defend themselves if that happens
If foreigners want to kill you why would they help you?
cap28: Umunna is about as Igbo as Obama is Kenyan he was socialised to think and behave like a white man just like Obama therefore it is totally ridiculous for dumb igbos to claim him as a son of the soil, he's just a white man's lackey
True he is.a puppet like Obama and most black presidents in Africa. Also what you think about this thread brohttp://www.nairaland.com/1856882/there-race-riot-going-america
anonymous6: This is a American issue, NOT a african issue in the end of the day. Nigerians have their own problems and it is wrong for you to force a issue, that is not a issue affecting Nigeria. You need to put your energy on Boko Haram, Nepa and etc NOT Ferguson, it's sad though but Nigeria has national issues already.
African americans cared about bring back our girls why don't we care about them.
SirShymex: There's a book about it on amazon, and it's well documented.
However, this is a short clip of long queues of African American volunteers trying to sign up to travel to Ethiopia in 1935 to fight against Italian invasion and colonialisation of the country(most of them didn't make the trip because they were barred from leaving the country):
SirShymex: However, a lot of African Americans have always supported Africans throughout history.
During the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, tons on African Americans volunteered to travel to Africa to fight, and there were long queues of African Americans all over America(especially Harlem back then), trying to get passports to travel to Africa to fight for Ethiopia and most of them were barred from leaving America. But the American government was against it. The documentary is on youtube.
African Americans laid the foundation for the fight against colonialism in Africa. Without the help they gave Africans, and the blueprint...I honestly doubt the fight against colonialism would've been as smooth as it was. Heck, all the African leaders back then cited them in their speeches.
Regardless, when Amadou Diallo(an African immigrant) was shot dead in Bronx by the police. I believe African Americans were at the forefront for fighting for justice for the guy and his family. Black is black - police brutality doesn't discriminate about African or African American. Once you're black, you're a legitimate target
Where is the link to the documentary about African Americans fighting for Ethiopians?
Guykhena: Tupac It happened in the 90s right,,,it seems your mindset is still stucked in the past,,or you have this trauma that got stucked in your head when you were a kid and its clouding your judgement real bad right now.. Nigger we are in the 21st century,and real sense if see something bad,it should be labeled bad,so I don't understand what the fvck you racist a$$ thinking modafuckers are insinuating....... If it was a white kid who got shot you sickos won't raise anything up,can you see the double standards ,the whites wouldn't even go into deep,they would label it an unfortunate circumstance,,but when it comes to blacks,NO WAY Heaven Must Fall,even if the dude they're routing for is a criminal ,smh sha
It happens all the time in America and rarely for whites. If it happened to a while boy then the police would be in trouble. This cop is on paid leave.
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,the whites wouldn't even go into deep,they would label it an unfortunate circumstance,,but when it comes to blacks,NO WAY Heaven Must Fall,even if the dude they're routing for is a criminal 