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Today in 1932, Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesb

Today in 1932, Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg.⠀
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On 04 March 1932, Zenzile Miriam Makeba, a singer, songwriter, actress, and activist, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Makeba was one of the most visible and outspoken critics of South Africa’s racist apartheid regime from its inception in the 1960s until its dismantling in the early 1990s.⠀
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Makeba's career flourished when she moved to the United States as a young woman, and she received a Grammy Award along with American musician Harry Belafonte for their 1965 album, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba'. Makeba, nicknamed 'Mama Africa', was among the first African musicians to receive worldwide recognition. She brought African music to a Western audience, and criticized her country's apartheid regime in many of her most popular songs.⠀
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While attempting to travel home for her mother's funeral in 1960, Makeba was banned from entering South Africa by the country's government. In 1963, her testimony against the South African government at the United Nations resulted in the government banning her music and revoking her citizenship. She became involved in America's civil rights movement, and in 1968, she married Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Black Panther Party. As a result, she lost support among white Americans. While she was on tour abroad, the US government cancelled her visa, forcing her and Carmichael to move to Guinea. She continued to perform, mostly in African countries, and released new songs more explicitly critical of apartheid.⠀
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After apartheid was dismantled in 1990, Makeba returned to South Africa. On 09 November 2008, during a concert in Italy, Makeba suffered a heart attack and died. After her death, former South African president, Nelson Mandela, said that Makeba's music 'inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us’.⠀
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📷: Miriam Makeba during a performance. REX / Shutterstock

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Call for Submissions: Modern Slavery in Africa
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Tomorrow is the last day to submit to our May-July 2021 issue.
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In partnership with the Antislavery Knowledge Network at the University of Liverpool, we are currently accepting submissions for our May-July 2021 issue, in which scholars and experts will critically discuss Modern Slavery in Africa.
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We look forward to analytical and engaging essays, articles, book reviews and reading lists.⁠
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📷: Women gold miners dig at a mining site in the Cameroon town of Betare Oya. April 4, 2018. Reinnier Kaze / AFP via Getty Images

#EndSARS: A fight Nigerian youths must not lose. #

#EndSARS: A fight Nigerian youths must not lose. #OnSite⚡️
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In our latest online essay, writer, Adekunle Falade, examines the roles young Nigerians played during the #EndSARS protests and distills lessons for future protests.
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According to Falade, the #EndSARS protests reflected ‘the repressed frustration of Nigerian youths on broader issues of poor governance spanning several decades'. Falade argues that for many young Nigerians, the protests represented a ‘fight that they cannot lose'.
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Falade examines the role of social media in driving the #EndSARS protests noting that social media helped make the protests decentralized and forestalled any attempts at hijacking the protests.
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Falade highlights the level of organization that young Nigerians put into the protests such as the provision of funds for food, medical bills and legal aid. Ultimately, Falade argues that the ‘concerted efforts' of people online and offline helped sustain the protests for as long as it did.
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For more on this topic, click the link in our bio.
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📷: An #EndSARS protester in Lagos holds up a placard / QUARTZ

Today in 1913, thousands of women demanded equal v

Today in 1913, thousands of women demanded equal voting rights during a parade in Washington.
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On 03 March 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington DC, and marched in a parade as they demanded a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote in elections. While women in America had been fighting for voting rights for over 60 years, this marked the first major national event for the movement.
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At the time, the concept of suffrage—the right to vote in political elections—for women was still broadly unpopular in America. Though some states allowed women to vote, many people believed that women had no place in voting and thought they should instead let their husbands exercise political power on their behalf.
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The parade appeared to be off to a good start until participants began to be jostled and ridiculed by onlookers. Some were harassed, and others were assaulted. The police did not properly intervene and appeared to be either indifferent to the struggling paraders, or sympathetic to the onlooking mob.
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The parade was a turning point in the suffrage-for-women movement. In 1919, the passage of the 19th Amendment of the US constitution guaranteed White American women the right to vote in elections—more than a century after America's first elections in 1788. However, the 19th amendment did not eliminate the state laws that prevented Black men and women from voting. Black people in America were only freely allowed to vote after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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📷: Suffragists on a bus in New York City. Library of Congress #WomensHistoryMonth

Nigeria receives almost 4 million COVID vaccine do

Nigeria receives almost 4 million COVID vaccine doses from COVAX. #RxCOVID😷⠀
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On Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine—a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and drugmaker, AstraZeneca—were shipped by the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX) to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, in the capital, Abuja.⠀
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Last month, the AstraZeneca vaccine was approved for use by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC). The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, noted that healthcare and front-line workers will be vaccinated first, then the elderly—people above 60 years with priority on those living with existing health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. ⠀
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According to the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, the doses received yesterday are the first batch of 16 million doses planned to be delivered to Nigeria by COVAX. Nigeria has recorded 156,017 cases and 1,915 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and with these doses, the Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire, asserts that 70% of the population is expected to be vaccinated within two years.⠀
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📝: Tomisin, Editorial Assistant⠀
📷: Government officials receive the first batch of 16 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines sent by COVAX at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on 2 March 2021. PREMIUM TIMES

How did music shape the #EndSARS protests? #OnSite

How did music shape the #EndSARS protests? #OnSite⚡️

In our latest online essay, writer, Adekunle Falade, discusses the role of music in the #EndSARS protests and how music can be used as a tool for demanding political change.

According to Falade, during the #EndSARS protests, music such as Burna Boy’s ‘Monsters You Made’ and ‘Jagajaga’ by Eedris Abdulkareem, promoted political consciousness.

Falade argues that the more contemporary ‘Monsters You Made’ by Burna Boy, properly captured the mood of the protests by being ‘true for the political elites and the masses’.

Falade explains how, between elites and the masses, #EndSARS revealed how each group considers the other the ‘monsters they made’.

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📝: Adekunle Falade
📷: Still from Burna Boy's 2020 music video, ‘Monsters You Made.’ YOUTUBE

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