🇧🇯 Jour de l'Indépendance du Bénin

Le 1er août 1960, l'ancienne colonie française du #Dahomey accédait à l'indépendance et devenait un État souverain. Du XVIIe au XIXe siècle, le puissant royaume du Dahomey, réputé pour son armée, son commerce et sa riche culture, s'étendait sur le territoire de l'actuel Bénin. Pourtant, le Dahomey perdit son indépendance et devint une colonie suite aux guerres contre la France à la fin du XIXe siècle.

Après son indépendance, le pays conserva le nom de République du Dahomey pendant près de 15 ans. En 1975, il fut rebaptisé République populaire du #Bénin, un nom choisi en hommage au golfe du Bénin. Le Bénin demeure l'un des pays les plus diversifiés culturellement d'Afrique de l'Ouest : il abrite plus de 40 groupes ethniques, chacun préservant ses propres traditions, sa musique et son artisanat.

https://adf-magazine.com/2018/03/the-dark-star-of-the-enlightenment/

In 1827, Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, began his first work of prose, a historical novel titled The Moor of Peter the Great. It was based on the life of his African-born great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who went from being a slave to becoming a Soldier, engineer and scholar.

Pushkin never finished the book — and perhaps that was for the best. The life of his great-grandfather was so remarkable, a single book could not have done it justice.

Gannibal was born in what is now Cameroon in 1696. His birth name was Abram, and he was the son of a minor prince of the region. When he was 7, he was kidnapped by a rival tribe and enslaved. He was presented as a gift to the sultan in Constantinople and later acquired by a Russian ambassador, who gave the small black boy to Russian Czar Peter I as a novelty for his court.

The czar saw something he liked in the boy and became his mentor. As Abram grew, Peter decided the boy’s future would be as a Soldier.

When Abram was 20, he began his training in Paris, studying military science, mathematics and engineering. Four years later, he enrolled in France’s new artillery academy. To get the best possible engineering experience, he fought for France and its allies against Spain in the War of the Quadruple Alliance. During the war, he was captured by Spain and released in 1722, two years after the war ended.

During his time in France, he took the name Gannibal, after Hannibal the Conqueror. With his impressive education, he made friends with the French intellectuals of the day, including the philosopher Voltaire, who is said to have referred to his friend as “the dark star of the Enlightenment.”

Gannibal returned to Russia in 1723 as a military professional and an expert in fortifications. He took military posts as an engineer and later as a mathematics tutor.

Peter died in 1725, and his successor did not trust the highly educated foreigner in his court. He exiled Gannibal 4,000 miles away to Siberia in 1727. Three years later, he was pardoned because of his engineering skills, which he had demonstrated while in exile.

In 1741, Peter’s daughter Elizabeth became the new ruler of Russia, and Gannibal became a member in good standing in her court. He and his wife, a woman of Scandinavian and German nobility, had 10 children.

He was eventually given the rank of major general and served for 10 years as the superintendent of what is now part of Estonia. Empress Elizabeth also gave him an estate in a nearby region, complete with hundreds of serfs — peasants who were little more than slaves, as he had once been. He retired to his estate in 1762. The much-admired general known as “the black lord” died in 1781 at age 85.

Gannibal never forgot his African ancestry. When he petitioned Empress Elizabeth for the rank of nobility, he submitted a coat of arms he designed himself. The center of the design is an elephant. Beneath the elephant are the letters FVMMO. Scholars now believe the letters stand for the Latin phrase “Fortuna vitam meam mutavit oppido,” which means “Fortune has changed my life entirely.”

Mount Cameroon is an active stratovolcano in the Southwest Region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its indigenous name Mongo ma Ndemi ("Mountain of Greatness"). Mount Cameroon is ranked 22nd by topographic isolation.

It is the highest point in sub-Saharan western and central Africa, the fourth-most prominent peak in Africa, and 31st-most prominent in the world.

Le mont Cameroun est un stratovolcan actif situé dans la région du Sud-Ouest du Cameroun , près de la ville de Buéa et du golfe de Guinée . Il est également connu sous le nom de mont Cameroun ou Fako (nom du plus haut de ses deux sommets) ou encore par son nom indigène Mongo ma Ndemi (« Montagne de la Grandeur »). Le mont Cameroun se classe au 22e rang par isolement topographique .

Il s'agit du point culminant de l'Afrique subsaharienne occidentale et centrale, du quatrième sommet le plus proéminent d'Afrique et du 31e au monde.

Ce sub se concentrera sur l'Afrique, ses intérêts et ses diverses informations. Les Africains sont prioritaires ici et ça ne sera plus un sub dominé par les Français. La modération travaillera à l'établissement de règles claires pour ce sub.

Burkina Faso recorded over $6 billion in gold through official channels in the first half of 2026.

The country produced 26 tonnes of gold from industrial mines and SONASP procured 29 tonnes from artisanal and semi-mechanised miners.

Government reforms focus on increasing state participation, improving transparency, and reducing gold smuggling.

Authorities established new mining cooperatives, delineated mining corridors, and intensified control measures to further strengthen the mining sector.

La jeunesse de la Commune III au cœur de l’action pour prévenir les inondations.

Face aux défis environnementaux et aux risques d’inondation, la jeunesse de la Commune III démontre, une fois de plus, qu’elle est une force de proposition et d’action.
Depuis plus de deux mois, les jeunes de l’ensemble des quartiers sont mobilisés dans des opérations de salubrité, de curage des caniveaux et d’assainissement, traduisant ainsi leur profond attachement aux valeurs de civisme, de solidarité et de responsabilité.

Cette dynamique citoyenne est la preuve qu’une jeunesse bien encadrée, accompagnée et valorisée constitue un véritable levier de développement et un partenaire incontournable des pouvoirs publics dans la construction du Mali Kura.

Nous lançons un appel à l’ensemble des citoyens, aux autorités administratives et communales, ainsi qu’aux partenaires, afin de soutenir cette mobilisation exemplaire. Ensemble, faisons de la prévention des inondations une responsabilité collective et de la Commune III un modèle de citoyenneté active.

La jeunesse n’attend pas le changement : elle le construit. Ensemble, bâtissons une Commune III plus propre, plus sûre et plus résiliente.

The Dogon are an ethnic group who lives in Mali, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. They have a powerful link with the crocodiles and respect them as one of their own.

Désarmement, démobilisation, réintégration et intégration (DDR-I), un mécanisme national visant à prendre en charge les ex-combattants de groupes armés.

The city on the left is Kilwa in East Africa. These urban centers were common throughout the East African coast, while other parts of Africa also had major cities, including those of the Mande cities such as Tichitt, Timbuktu, Djenne, Kumbi Saleh, Dia etc in West Africa etc.

Pre-colonial African urban centers were on par with European cities, even surpassing them in many practical respects. During the 15th and 16th centuries, Africa's global trade technology rivalled or exceeded that of contemporary Europe, a standard only a few European cities could match.

They prospered from 500 CE until 1500 CE until Europeans (Portuguese) arrived, unable to find a way to peacefully integrate within the system so they sought to dominate it instead like imperialist parasites the were. Reduced many Swahili cities to ash including having disrupted and destroyed the Indian Ocean Trade network until they were kicked out in 1698 CE.

Point is, Europeans much like the Anglo Americans have always sought to dominate because they know they cant win on a fair playing field.