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09/24/2025

Sumrrá returns to Casa das Crechas in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain - their home club. These avant-garde jazz masters have been working on their new album - REVOLUTI8N - to release late November 2025 - Stay tuned!

09/24/2025

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50.5K likes, 1364 comments. “I love telling this story and I’ll always tell this story on a yearly basis 🤲🏿”

09/12/2025

In Dogon culture of Mali, the ginna, often referred to as the lineage house or great house, is a vital institution that serves both as a residence and a sacred centre for an extended family. It is typically home to the oldest male of the patrilineal lineage, known as the ginna bana, who is responsible for maintaining social order, overseeing family rituals, and safeguarding ancestral traditions.

Architecturally, ginna houses are larger and more prominent than regular homes, often built with mud brick and decorated with symbolic reliefs, painted motifs, or carved elements. Inside, there is usually a special room or altar space dedicated to communicating with the ancestors through offerings and ritual practices. These ceremonies are particularly important during funerals, planting seasons, or community gatherings.

The ginna stands as a symbol of lineage unity, ancestral heritage, and spiritual authority, reflecting the Dogon belief in a deep connection between the living and the departed.

09/10/2025

Timbuktu, Mali 🇲🇱

Timbuktu, Mali was one of the world's richest city in the 14th Century.

It had majority of the world's gold and salt reserves.

It was a global leading academic destination with a world class library and world class university called Sankore University, which still exists..

09/10/2025

Al bilali Soudan Tombouctou

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09/10/2025

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09/06/2025

Samori Ture (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Malinke and a Soninke[1] Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of an empire that stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina FasoThe French began to expand into the heart of West Africa in the late 1870s, pushing eastward from Senegal to ultimately reach the upper reaches of the Nile in what is now Sudan. Their drive south-east to link up with their bases in Côte d'Ivoire put them directly in conflict with Samori Ture.

After fleeing his native Kankan, Daye Kaba had made contact with the French, who had a garrison at Kita in present-day Mali. The commander Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes sent an envoy to Samori Ture to announce that Kiniéran, where Kaba was sheltering, was now a French protectorate. Unimpressed, Ture sacked the town on February 21, 1882. A French relief column arrived too late, but pursued the Wassoulou army, which turned and fought at Samaya on the 26th. The sofas traditional frontal charges became a slaughter when faced with the latest French weaponry, but Samory quickly pivoted by adopting effective guerilla tactics and hit-and-run cavalry attacks. They harassed the French back to the Niger.[3]: 63–4 This victory won Ture a reputation as the African leader who could stand up to the invading toubab, massively boosting his prestige and recruitment, as well as providing a blueprint for future engagements.[5]

In the aftermath of Samaya, some of the leaders of Bamako began making overtures to Ture. The French, eager to possess this key strategic town on the Niger, rushed a force to establish a fort there on February 1, 1883.[3]: 76 Kebe Brema, Samori's brother, led a force to Bamako to lure the French out of their defenses. They fought two battles at Woyo Wayanko creek in early April, with Kebe Brema winning the first but eventually being forced to retreat.[8]

In January 1885 Ture sent an embassy to Freetown, offering to put his kingdom under British protection. While the British did not want to risk angering the French, they allowed Ture to buy large numbers of modern repeating rifles.[citation needed]

When an 1885 French expedition under Col. A. V. A. Combes attempted to seize the Buré gold fields by capturing Niagassola, Ture counter-attacked. Dividing his army into three mobile columns, he worked his way around the French lines of communication and quickly forced them to withdraw.[9] Already embroiled in conflict with Mahmadu Lamine and the Toucouleur Empire, the French were compelled to negotiate the Treaty of Kenieba Koura, signed on March 28, 1886. This pact recognized French hegemony over the left bank of the Niger as far upstream as Siguiri, and Samory's control of Bure and the Manding region.[3]: 80–1 As part of the agreement, Samory's eldest son and heir Djaoulen-Karamo was sent on a diplomatic/fact finding/goodwill mission to France.[10][11]
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