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Burkina Faso Scraps Visa Fees for All Africans
The measure was approved on Thursday following a Council of Ministers meeting.
The decision aims to:
strengthen continental integration,
promote economic, cultural, and tourism exchanges.
Adwoa, Abibitumi_Aban and 2 others17 Comments-
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https://visasnews.com/en/burkina-faso-free-visa-for-african-nationals/
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We need this extended out to Afrikans in Caribbean Afrikan nation states and Afrikans in non-Afrikan states
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@AfroN8V another reason why it’s important to “full sale” get rid of using the word “Afrikan/African”… and just using “Black” in all our language. you swap that out and you get, “Burkina Faso Scraps Visa’s for all Blacks”. so much clarity – and no need to find ways to include “fragmented” locations of Black people
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@bakari-kwento can’t argue with you on that, this would have been much easier and Black inclusive had he said that! It will require more advocacy now, to think of and include Black people outside of the continent.
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my push is that we just make sure we burn that word (and all variations of it) and we make it a point to never use it again.
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@bakari-kwento I overstand however I still hold on to Nana John Henrik Clarke’s lesson on how it is necessary for Black people to know they are Afrikan/African and from Afrika/Africa using the common nomenclature everyone knows, as basic eurasian language speakers that our people are in the deathcamps we were taken captive to. We can say Abibiman or Kemet in its place as people learn but how do you reach people that don’t know anything about that first? The issue with most of our people is not wanting to identify with that heritage from the continent, speaking from the Black Diasporan perspective where people reject their Afrikanity or Kmtyuness, if you prefer. As an Educator when I teach Elementary, Middle and High scholars, I have to start with the baby steps of connecting Black to the continent commonly known as Africa. We can discuss it at the upcoming Abibifahodie Akyer3kyer3fo0 meeting on the 21st if you have some ideas on teaching the beginners.
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@AgyaKwadwo my elder bredda, so are we now applying that quote to the other quote where he strongly advocated taking a good rinse in Blackness and then going on to being Afrikan?
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what is afrikan? what does it mean? we never had to teach the yuut dem to start using the word “lit” – folks started saying it and there it is. so, as Agya Kwadwo was saying, for me – i dont encourage… in fact i discourage that term for myself, and for all the media i put out, i make it a point to never use it. I encourage others who see how damaging it is – (like we see in the article) to do the same, so we don’t haev to pick hairs when we start saying african/afrikan.. and then we have to start the fragmented gymnastics of what it means -
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@AFRON8V I take that quote to say if using a term to identify ourselves is not from us and cannot serve us in our liberation – toss it in the trash can. Nigerian, Ghanaian, Jamaican, n.k. All those are the exonyms. We should use endonyms in any indigenous language as it serves as our constitution. This is the main point of the term Kmt and Kmtyw. Obibini and Abibiman n.k. Who we are and whose lands it is…and this can applied globally wherever Kmt is ..
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@bakari-kwento the Ka is alluding to the Kemetic concept and the usage of K in our languages. It actually also serves as putting together fragments that exist with the rejection of the Motherland continent by those, not living in the Liveaspora but dying in the Diaspora. It may be basic but there had to be artists like Sizzla to tell Black people in Jamaica dem come from Africa/Afrika to spark Black Consciousness and re-connect with the Motherland. We are dealing with generations of diseducation/miseducation by colonial systems that were never decolonized upon flag “independence”. We have to get the youth to know Blackness=Afrikanity=Kmtyuness, that these are connected not disconnected otherwise we’re left with this eurasianized/amWized/Yuruguized “Blackness”, and that in fact is very problematic. Blackness has to be reAfrikanized/reKemetized/reIndigenized. The connectivity is what I’m emphasizing on, and to get to it by any terms necessary. Otherwise, our people will continue practicing anti-Motherland ideas of neo-colonial cage, micro-nationalist “Blackness” e.g., “Mi nah Afrikan, mi a Jamaican”/ “I ain’t African, I’m a Black American”/ “No soy Africano, soy un Cubano/Colombiano/Panameno/Dominicano” etc. I believe there needs to be steps to what y’all are saying, we have to be honest, and acknowledge we did not start at Black and go straight to Kmtyu or Abibifoɔ because we don’t have our languages, don’t you think we have to start with the language our people speak and the concepts they know?
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I see how we are trying to use a word that aAmw tossed on us, and are trying to Blacken-ize it with the “Ka” and such – however, the word was not of our choosing. James Brown said, “i’m Black and I’m Poud”… so we can continue with something not so far in our past and continue that. Say Black in whatever language you speak.
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@bakari-kwento sure, that part is definitely necessary of knowing and loving our Blackness. And is also necessary to connect with the Motherland continent. Did James Brown rock with re-connecting with the land & reKemetization or was it just Black and proud? Blackness without land/geographic identification?
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@AfroN8V i’m not about going into all that James Brown did – i’m saying that we have called ourselves Black for thousands of years and even recently – it’s not some large step into the past to refer to ourselves as Black (only reason the James Brown song was referred to). the afr… word keeps krakkka’s safe. so this long journey of reteaching folks is just not something i’m on. if a child can pick up using the term “lit”… without hundreds years of education, then we can just jump in and start back using Black and go from there…. for those who want to do that.
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@bakari-kwento Aane. Our people already identify as Black throughout the colonial languages imposed on us, and it has not gotten us far enough, unfortunately. Black has also kept yurugu safe, because it’s Black+(insert neo colonial cage assimilationist identity). Without bringing back Culture and Worldview, we’re at a standstill. Time for a plug lol – that’s why I’m teaching this class this coming semester: Sankɔfa Black To Us @ Liberated Minds Homeschool HUEniversity on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 5:30 PM EST if you know any High Scholars interested. http://www.homeschoolhueniversity.com
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