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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

4 months

…and I have. In @PanAfricanRevie today, I write: “Ultimately, decolonising ‘international’ Justice requires the building of stronger South-South relations and fostering a more holistic approach in decolonising language, history, and ideology.” READ: ⤵️

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Decolonising ‘International’ Justice - Pan African Review

To achieve decolonisation, a whole process of de-construction and re-construction is necessary

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

Twitter, know that the first-ever PhD to be written in IsiXhosa at @Rhodes_Uni was written by Hleze Kunju. Black child, you're AMAZING! 🔥🔥

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Nephew drops my iPad, doesn't say sorry but proceeds to offer me a biscuit. His future in Politics is secure.

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8 years

After #Brexit , I wrote: #Africa needs to stop mourning the West & become more selfish with itself as Europe & the US are doing.

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8 years

Left: Captain Thomas Sankara, assasinated 15/10/87 Right: Samora Moises Machel, assasinated 19/10/86 #BlackPain #AfricaUnite #Revolution

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@CindyPoluta My colleague, Amina, was distressed and in tears the other day. Asked what was wrong, she told the story of how a humble gentleman who used to make her the best coffee at the hotel was no more, murdered. His name? Alfred. She was inconsolable. I'm so sorry for your loss. 💔🙏🏿💔

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levi kabwato

7 years

To my friends and family from #Rwanda , I know how important today is for you. What you've built is in your hands. Take good care of it.✌

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levi kabwato

8 years

So #Brexit & #Trump are actually opportunities for #Africa to assert herself as the Global Order reconfigures itself. TAKE THE CHANCE!

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7 years

May you continue to Rest in Power Queen. Your sons and daughters are taking the fight forward. ✊

@AfricanArchives

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

@AfricanArchives

7 years

One year ago today, we lost Afeni Shakur. A political activist, Black Panther, philanthropist and Mother to the Late Tupac Shakur.

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The people who root for you in your absence; the people who pray good things over your life without you knowing about it; the people who defend your honour & dignity without asking for anything in return; for such people, do the same even if you may not know who they are.

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@LeviKabwato

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6 years

Dude, most Africans have always expressed outrage & sympathy at the lynching of BLACKS in america - from Emett to Sandra to Stephon. It's you - the BLACK americans - who do NOT care about the Imperialism and Wars your country sponsors and how they kill BLACK lives in Africa.

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4 years

"Africans, why aren't you dying?" - Colonialists & Imperialists.

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8 years

Unfortunately, the idea of a UNITED Black people also scares other black people who have pledged their alliance to white supremacy.

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levi kabwato

6 years

It's really hard to give up on #Africa . This is all some of us have, what we've known. As Captain Thomas Sankara declared, repeatedly, "Homeland or Death, we will Triumph!" And, to borrow the words of a fellow Sankarist, my brother Mathatha Tsedu, "For Africa, ALWAYS". Salute.

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7 years

It's NOT for white people to "fix" themselves but for BLACK people to ASSERT themselves. Our DIGNITY doesn't rest on white generosity. NO!

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8 years

Frantz Fanon on elites in Society who are reluctant to use their Power in order to influence positive Change.

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8 years

Tragedy in BLACK activism lies in the failure to understand why whiteness preoccupies itself with the destruction of young Black bodies.

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8 years

Anyway, my heart is now getting heavy. Africa is all we have, you and I who live here and have nowhere else to go. Love it passionately.

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levi kabwato

7 years

What @monaeltahawy has started with #DearSister is one of the most powerful things I've seen on Twitter lately. Very encouraging. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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levi kabwato

8 years

No pun intended, it's Cape Town.

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8 years

In his 4 years in Power, Sankara was more effective than at least 40 African Heads of State combined over a period of 20 years. Leadership.

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8 years

#Rwanda , all I can say is this: Murakoze! May you continue to grow, to aspire for even greater things and to inspire #Africa . Asante.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

With the #Rwanda Mines minister. He's 31. How old is the youngest minister of your country? #AUKigali2016

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levi kabwato

8 years

Sankara was NOT ahead of his time. No, he was of his time - the time when Africa ought to have been consolidating Liberation gains.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

#ThisFlag in Rio. Go Mighty Warriors go!

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levi kabwato

8 years

It's just that many people do not, as yet, fully understand the threat posed by rising Christian fundamentalism in #Africa . It is brutal.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

BLACK people know how to fight every single battle, except the ones in which their own interests are at stake. Fascinating!

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

"Shaping ideology and public opinion is less about the voices we hear, and more about those we don’t." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@adamjohnsonCHI

Adam Johnson

@adamjohnsonCHI

7 years

i wrote about the mystery of why 'liberal media' is shifting right as democratic voters move left

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

6 years

A few days after my birthday, my father handed me this letter, which I wrote to him on 26/4/1994. I was 10. I'm most grateful that I was raised in a household in which - by age 10 - I was already empowered to call out even my own father's lies! 😂 Zikomo kwambili Mhai naBaba.❤

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levi kabwato

7 years

**laughs in colonialism**

@DanielJHannan

Daniel Hannan

7 years

Happy Commonwealth Day to 2.5 billion people bound together by a dream of liberty. 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇳🇬🇧🇩🇿🇦🇹🇿🇰🇪🇨🇦🇺🇬🇲🇾🇬🇭🇲🇿🇦🇺🇨🇲🇱🇰🇲🇼🇿🇲🇷🇼🇵🇬🇸🇱🇸🇬🇳🇿🇯🇲🇳🇦🇧🇼🇱🇸🇹🇹🇲🇺

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@LeviKabwato

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8 years

I've just bought an I❤Africa laptop sleeve from my sister, Scarlet. ⤵ Let me know if you also want one of these.

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8 years

You can't wish for a better #Africa while sustaining the very systems that stand in the way of your greatness. It doesn't make any sense.

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levi kabwato

8 years

If you want to understand why some BLACK who live in close proximity to whiteness trash poorer BLACKS then listen to Biko and Stokely.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

. @ntsikimazwai @Rhodes_Uni Imbongikazi yeSizwe, @ntsikimazwai , making us proud outchea, graduating with DISTINCTION (MA-Creative Writing) Slay, Ntsiki, slay! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

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levi kabwato

10 years

#Malawi might be a country you haven't heard of or can't locate on a map but it surely does have strong, independent institutions! +1!

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levi kabwato

7 years

"The Global Competitiveness Report (2015) ranks Rwanda as the best place to be a woman in Africa and 6th Globally" This is remarkable...

@RwandaGov

Government of Rwanda

7 years

Major milestones in #GenderEquality and #WomenEmpowerment in #Rwanda #CSW61 #RwandaProgress @RwandaGender

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levi kabwato

7 years

This was long overdue, and some of us are most grateful to UNISA for recognising this great African Warrior in Bantu #Biko . I'm so sad that I won't be in the room tonight. Bless up. ❤ #BikoLecture

@BikoFoundation

SteveBikoFoundation

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7 years

This evening's #BikoLecture will begin with the conferment of a posthumous Honorary Doctorate on #Biko by @unisa

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levi kabwato

8 years

Here are some of Captain Sankara's remarks at that art exhibition in Harlem: ⤵ (Read, and weep for what Africa lost out on)

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8 years

Kigali isn't Joburg or Cairo - it doesn't even want to be that! It is a city built on Vision & Leadership, underpinned by History. #Rwanda

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levi kabwato

6 years

Last night, an email landed in my inbox. It was Dr @AmberMurrey alerting me & others that her book on Captain Thomas #Sankara will be available from March 15. I co-authored a chapter in this groundbreaking & most relevant work on one of #Africa 's greatest Revolutionaries.❤ ⤵

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

Media have the POWER to make YOU like or hate someone. The feelings you sometimes project are Journalists' feelings, not entirely yours.

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levi kabwato

7 years

Congratulations to the people of #Rwanda . To all your young people, the future of this Nation is in your hands. Literally. Much Love.❤

@YolandeMakolo

Yolande Makolo 🇷🇼

7 years

#KagameInauguration What a day Never been happier or prouder to be Rwandan And African Asante #PerezidaWacu

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levi kabwato

8 years

This is part of Sankara's speech in Harlem, on 3 October 1984. Just let it sink in. ⤵

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levi kabwato

6 years

Some Western "activists" who are so invested in pushing the "Africa is a #shithole narrative every other day are now desperately trying to distance themselves from president Donald Trump’s remarks. Stunning!!! These are your views too, please own them. It's not all on Trump!

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8 years

But Sankara also knew that you can't just say BLACK LIVES MATTER without having LOVE for other Black People. Educate yourself here: ⤵

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

6 years

#JustLikeYou

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7 years

Ngugi: If you know other languages but not your own, you're enslaved. If you know your own language & others you're empowered. #NgugiLecture

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@LeviKabwato

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8 years

This is one of the two traffic circles which made news for having been built over a SINGLE weekend in #Kigali . ⤵

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levi kabwato

8 years

They killed the great African Warrior, Patrice #Lumumba today, in 1961. He was a fine young African leader. Some of us can't get over that.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

4 years

@CindyPoluta Will do. Strength to you. And when you meet Alfred's wife, please do give her our condolences. I'll also DM you my contacts, in case she needs anything we can assist with.

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levi kabwato

4 years

Pamusoroi maComrades from #Zimbabwe , herewith a Public Service Announcement: You can watch and marvel at the unfolding developments in #Malawi without necessarily making this about you. Malawians have fought too damn hard for this to be reduced to a footnote in your whataboutism

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10 years

#Malawi might be a country you haven't heard of or can't locate on a map but it surely does have strong, independent institutions! +1!

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8 years

The thought of a UNITED Black people scares the Racists amongst us, those white supremacists masquerading as liberals. We see you.

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8 years

"Why should you be angry when there's no bicycle lane but there's a child going to bed hungry?" - @Julius_S_Malema #EFFManifestoLaunch

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7 years

Around the world, BLACK people still think they can defeat whiteness by confronting 'isolated' incidents. This is self-defeating, sadly.

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Without Mugabe there is no ZANU PF. Take him out & you have a de facto military state. - Roy Bennet #wits

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levi kabwato

7 years

UNACCEPTABLE!!! Pictures of Rwanda president, Paul Kagame, instilling fear in citizens. Let's all condemn this in the "strongest terms."⤵

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@LeviKabwato

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7 years

This thing (call it revisionism?) of blaming Thabo Mbeki for your political misfortunes when he wasn't even the president of your country...

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

6 years

Woke up today, climbed a tree, plucked some avos. Climbed another tree, plucked some guavas. All in my mother's garden. I miss this life.

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@LeviKabwato

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40. Surrounded by love, celebrated and energised for the next thrilling chapter of my life. #pressplay 🥂

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

President Ian Khama & the People of Botswana have remained under-utilised allies in the struggle for Change in #Zimbabwe . It's a pity.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

2017 marks 30 years since the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara.😢 I'm excited to be working on 2 writing projects focusing on him. ✊

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

To the young people voting for the first time, may this moment remind you of what was & inspire you to see (you already do!) what can be. 💜

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

6 years

Sunsets in #Accra . The Black Star. Happy Independence Day to the most beautiful people of #Ghana . Let's continue to reflect on what our heroes, like the great Kwame Nkrumah, dreamt for us, the future generations in #Africa . Medaasi. - Kofi Asante.

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

Find a Panther who looks at you the way Linton Kwesi Johnson looks at Levi Kabwato. I'm so honoured to have met this fierce BLACK PANTHER.🔥

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

Some journalists in the Media Centre at #AUKigali2016 are using these Positivo laptops assembled in #Rwanda . ⤵

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8 years

You have to understand the urgency, the energy and the passion that's driving #Rwanda . It is phenomenal! #AUKigali2016

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

6 years

When I get a moment, I will write about the many women who are not on Twitter or other social media, but they have been mourning #WinnieMandela . I encountered some of them in #Dangamvura , last week. Others I have encountered this past week in #Malawi . Amazing.❤

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds - Bob Marley in 'Redemption Song'

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

6 years

Hi @Eusebius , can't get through to the studio line, sadly. 1. @AdvDali_Mpofu is absolutely right - refer to the Founding Manifesto & 'The Coming Revolution' 2. EFF is Marxist-Leninist-Fanonian. Fanon allows party to confront Racism, Colonialism & Imperialism. /

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

8 years

"For all have sinned..." But fuck, someone else sins got them LAND and a good headstart in LIFE. What did your sins get you? SLAVERY.

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levi kabwato

4 years

Chakwera: I commit myself to setting a good example. I will subject myself to all Constitutional provisions. I will declare my assets every year and avail myself to questions from Parliament.

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levi kabwato

8 years

How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look? - Bob Marley in 'Redemption Song'.

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levi kabwato

8 years

Wouldn't be interesting to go back to how Media folks who now quote #Marikana as a sad moment actually reported in it while it happened?

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levi kabwato

3 years

My daughter will be 42 in 2063. What does the @_AfricanUnion 's #Agenda2063 mean for her? I lived through 'Health For All', 'Education for All', MDGs & now SDGs. Why is there so little accountability on these initiatives? Who are they meant for? Africans? Some of my thoughts:⤵️

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Pan-African Review

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"We can't keep transitioning from one agenda/deadline to another (education for all, health for all, silence the guns, MDGs, SDGs, etc...) without any form of accountability," @LeviKabwato tells @gintycyn

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@LeviKabwato

levi kabwato

7 years

The Eastern Cape is one of my favourite provinces in South Africa. I love driving here; very scenic and beautiful.

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levi kabwato

8 years

And the haters were indeed silenced. Gold!

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8 years

The Church has become a well-oiled machine (complete with anointing oil) that no longer stands for SOCIAL JUSTICE but Oppression itself.

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8 years

This is why it's important to teach young BLACK children the value of IMAGINATION. To IMAGINE themselves as BLACK, not anything else.

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9 years

How can a 16 year-old growing up in southern #Africa not know about Samora Machel? What kind of education system are they subjected to?

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levi kabwato

8 years

Most young Africans today, myself included, are a far cry from what we saw the likes of Thomas Sankara do for their countries. It's sad.

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levi kabwato

7 years

Today, in my newspaper column (published in #Malawi ), I pay a very personal tribute to Captain Thomas #Sankara . Salute.💜 #Sankara30Years

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levi kabwato

6 years

I finally got to hold the book in my hands, and I can't quite describe how I've been feeling since I opened the mail last night. Thank you Dr @AmberMurrey for allowing me space in your publication. To my co-author, Sarah, I have no words at present. #Sankara30Years

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Whilst attending a documentary screening (the story of Ota Benga) a white man put things into perspective for me: ⤵

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8 years

Last night, a police officer at a crossing point saw my fear and anxiety. He stopped oncoming traffic and helped me cross the road. #Rwanda

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6 years

Had lunch at @CafefusionLL , in #Lilongwe .

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levi kabwato

8 years

All is defended, using the Bible. In Church, not many people are taught to develop Critical Thinking as a way of edifying themselves.

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levi kabwato

8 years

I rediscovered Sankara through a book called 'Thomas Sankara Speaks'. @ChrisKabwato was very generous with his copy.

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levi kabwato

8 years

"We must be Black with other Blacks, day and night." Of course, white supremacists masquerading as liberals are not going to like this.

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8 years

All of the World, BLACK People have been forced to apologise for their EXISTENCE. It has to end. By affirming & asserting BLACKNESS.

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levi kabwato

7 years

Salute, General @BantuHolomisa . Siyabulela.

@nombonisogasa

Nomboniso Gasa

7 years

Tribute & Gratitude to @BantuHolomisa , who looked after #ChrisHani 's parents until they died. He didn't publicize this.

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There are days when my mental health throws me off. Like today. Then I play Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue' on vinyl and I can't believe just how therapeutic this music is. If you're struggling with mental health, I'm sending you some positive vibes. Strength.❤

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levi kabwato

4 years

Chakwera: there can be no new Malawi if the only people deemed responsible for the ruins in #Malawi are those who lost the last election. Neither can Malawi be solely built only by those who won the election.

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7 years

Ngugi: If I applied to Harvard & said I don't know English I won't get hired. Why hire Lecturers in Africa who don't know African languages?

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7 years

Some Africans are wishing for a US president who is more involved in their (Africans') domestic affairs? 😂😂😂 Self-hate doesn't describe it!

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8 years

Hence, Warriors like Bantu #Biko warned: "The most potent weapon in the hands of the Oppressor is the MIND of the Oppressed." They saw it.

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levi kabwato

8 years

If for nothing else, then for the DIGNITY of the BLACK BODY. We only have each other as Black People.

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levi kabwato

8 years

As my knowledge expanded, so too did my levels of Consciousness and Empathy. They'll never teach you these things at any school, sadly.

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levi kabwato

7 years

@glenmpani @263Chat @OpenParlyZw @deltandou @violetgonda “What happened today has nothing to do with the opposition, it has nothing to do with the national government, we are cleansing our own party." Chinamasa is right!

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levi kabwato

8 years

Earlier this evening, with my own eyes, I saw president @PaulKagame leave the Kigali Convention Centre in a 3-car convoy. 3! #AUKigali2016

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levi kabwato

8 years

One of whiteness' most prominent successes has been the ability to completely destroy the confidence of the BLACKS it oppresses.

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levi kabwato

30 days

ey @GenesisMediaMW , please run me this on glass. thank you.

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levi kabwato

1 month

Neat job. 🔥 I also want one; let me pick the right photo.

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