WHAT NEW PRESIDENT MEANS FOR SENEGAL.
Senegal has chosen a new direction - by voting in 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who will become Africa’s youngest elected president.
Here’s a look at why his victory could mean greater economic sovereignty for Senegal - and a kick in the teeth for French neocolonial interests.
#meanwhile ...in Oakland, CA
Car burglar smashes window and steals a purse from an occupied white SUV waiting at a stoplight before attempting to take off and getting slammed by the white SUV who they just robbed.
Dash-cam footage reveals the robbers abandoning their stolen vehicle and quickly fleeing the scene after realizing that they have just met their match. This incident occurred on 14th and Foothill in East Oakland, California in broad daylight.
BECAUSE BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS ALSO IN MARCH ☺️
WALES’ FIRST BLACK LEADER’S MESSAGE TO RACISTS.
Zambian-born Vaughan Gething has become the first African to lead a European country, Wales.
Welsh parliamentarians voted on 20 March to replace First Minister Mark Drakeford, who stepped down after five years. A few days earlier, the Welsh Labour Party chose Gething as its leader. His path to First Minister was clear because the party holds the most parliamentary seats.
Gething, a trade-union lawyer, was born in 1974 in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Welsh veterinarian father and a Zambian chicken farmer mother. The family moved to Wales, where he joined the Labour Party in 1992.
Not all have welcomed Gething’s election in the tiny country, where white people made up more than 90 per cent of the population as of 2021. Social media trolls soon went into overdrive. However, Gething said he is up to the task.
African leaders in other predominantly-white countries have served ruling-class interests. Do you think Gething’s election is progress for Africans?