Africa Updates
1.1M posts
Africa Updates
@africaupdates
Africa Updates from all corners of Africa.
Subscribe to our YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCNFbg…
Joined January 2009
- Kenya🇰🇪: "Any child that puts someone in a coffin will be the first to go into the coffin, do you hear? Do you hear? Do you listen young men? Don't stupify yourselves thinking that you will put someone in a coffin and live. Do you hear? I have told you. Take care of yourselves"Wiliam Ruto [to Online activists in his native Kalenjin language]: "𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱..."
00:00 - Tanzania🇹🇿: ( YANGA) Young Africans Sports Club's @yangasc1935 victory parade after being crowned Tanzania ⚽️ league champions. YANGA is one of the major football clubs in Tanzania.
- There is probably no African language as widely spoken as Kiswahili. It is understood along the coasts of Madagascar and Arabia, it is spoken by the Sidis in India, and is the language of trade of a very large part of Central or Intertropical Africa. By Edward Steere a Missionary
- Botswana is the world’s biggest diamond producer after Russia. Namibia is the world’s largest producer of marine diamonds. Namibia has been working with Botswana as it seeks to become a center of "diamond polishing", and if possible sell them through Botswana's diamond exchange.
- Tanzania: Names of married Dar men to be published on State website to protect single women – Regional boss Makonda k24tv.co.ke/entertainment/…
- In 2004 A summit of African leaders was thrown into confusion when Mozambique's President Joaquim Chissano addressed the meeting in an African language "Swahili." Officials scrambled around looking for interpreters. President Chissano offered to translate himself.
- Rihanna And A$AP Rocky Celebrate His Birthday At Wizkid’s ‘Made For Lagos’ Concert In L.A. yahoo.com/lifestyle/riha… via @Yahoo
- "If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue, or the language of your culture, that is self enslavement." -- Prof Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenyan🇰🇪 writer and academic.)
- "You kill Zimbabweans, Mozambicans, Nigerians and Somalians here in South Africa and you call them 'makwerekwere' and all sorts of names, today you are holding a placard saying #BlackLivesMatter?" - EFF leader Julius Malema hits out at South Africans iol.co.za/news/politics/…
- All African countries especially those with huge tourism industries like Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Namibia, Gambia, Zimbabwe & Senegal should lead the way by promoting and selling more (Intra African Travel) packages targeting Africans. @worldtoafrica
- SADC countries scrap roaming charges. Malawi🇲🇼, Zambia🇿🇲, Zimbabwe🇿🇼, and Botswana🇧🇼 have agreed to scrap mobile roaming charges. The move comes into effect in August and takes the Southern African Development Community closer to a single digital market. p.dw.com/p/4SbGQ?maca=e…
