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Today in 2013, Nelson Mandela died aged 95. #RxHis

Today in 2013, Nelson Mandela died aged 95. #RxHistory⏳
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On 05 December 2013, Nelson Mandela, South African president from 1994-1999 and anti-apartheid revolutionary, died in his home in Johannesburg, surrounded by his family.
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Mandela was born on July 18, 1918. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand, and began working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. He became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the African National Congress (ANC) party in 1943. When South Africa’s white-only ruling party, the National Party (NP), established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, Mandela and the ANC committed to overthrowing it.
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Read more about Mandela’s life, as well as today’s news round up at the link in our bio.
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📝: Wemimo Ogunmoyela
📷: 1) Nelson Mandela. South Africa 2007. Peter Dejong/AP.
2) Nelson Mandela/ Flickr
3) Then-South African President Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana at a press event in Cape Town, South Africa on March 17, 1997. It's the image Prince Harry referred to in his United Nations speech. Anna Zieminski / AFP via Getty Images

Today in 1977, ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ opene

Today in 1977, ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ opened in New York. #RxHistory⏳
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Anne Frank was a Jewish girl whose family hid from Nazi officials during Germany's occupation of The Netherlands in the Second World War. Anne's diary, written during the war, was later turned into a book and made her one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust.⠀
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Anne was born in Germany on 12 June 1929. Early in Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, her father, Otto Frank, took Anne, her sister, and mother to live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. German forces eventually invaded The Netherlands during the Second World War, and when Nazis began to persecute Jews in Amsterdam, Anne and her family went into hiding in July 1942, living in secret rooms in a house in Amsterdam for two years, where they were smuggled food and supplies by their family's friends. ⠀
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During this time in hiding, Anne wrote faithfully in her diary, documenting her day-to-day experiences. She wrote about her annoyances, fear of being taken or shot by the Nazis, and what she wanted to do after the war. Her last diary entry was on 01 August 1944, three days before her family was discovered by the Nazi police. Anne and her family were separated and taken away to Germany, where Anne died aged-15, along with her sister and mother at concentration camps in Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz early in 1945.⠀
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Her family’s friends searched the secret rooms after their capture and found Anne's diary, which they gave to her father after Germany surrendered in May 1945. According to The Guardian, her diary was published by her father as ‘Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl' in 1947 and later made into an award-winning play.
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📷: Anne Frank, Amsterdam Photo Collection

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How the government missed out on opportunities to prevent gender-based violence during the pandemic. #OnSite⚡

We are currently in the middle of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, supported by the United Nations, which began 25 November and ends on International Human Rights Day, 10 December.

In this online essay, lawyer, Cynthia Igodo, details the ways in which the government missed out on several opportunities to prevent sexual and gender-based violence during the pandemic.

Igodo writes: ‘The government missed out on several opportunities to prevent the heightened levels of sexual and gender-based violence women experienced during lockdowns. For one, while developing lockdown measures, the government did not sufficiently consider the ways such measures and the pandemic might affect women and girls uniquely. Possible evidence of this, was that the government excluded the Ministry of Women Affairs, NGOs and other women-focused organizations from the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force and from the government’s general planning and decision making. In addition, the government did not consider the provision of sexual and gender-based services by civil society groups, shelters or sexual assault trauma centres as “essential services”. As such, rape survivors and other victims of violence were precluded from moving around to seek help at hospitals, shelters, or other safe spaces.’

Read the full essay at the link in our bio.
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📝: Cynthia Igodo
📷: 16 Days of Activism campaign march. UN Women

Today in 1989, the Cold War officially ended. #RxH

Today in 1989, the Cold War officially ended. #RxHistory⏳
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On 03 December 1989, the Cold War, officially ended. This was a conflict that developed after World War II in 1947 between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) and their respective allies.The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. A total of three hundred and eighty-two Americans and over ten million Russians were killed as a result of direct enemy action, with other service men either being killed by accident or in “friendly-fire” incidents.
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In Africa, newly independent countries such as Angola, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) provided the facilities for some of the bloodiest proxy battles between the ‘East' and ‘West', as the United States, apartheid-era South Africa and China tried to prevent the spread of communism in the global south, while Cuba and the Eastern Bloc sought to support it. South Africa, along with Egypt, were the first two countries on the continent to give rise to Communist parties in the 1920s. The significance of these parties would only be felt after the Second World War.
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Nine African countries; Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, The Congo, Egypt, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Benin, received diplomatic or military support from the Soviet Union.

Learn more about the Cold War at the link in bio.
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📝: Chiamaka Dike.
📷: 1) Angolan delegation pays respects at Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow. A. Kovtun, B.Korzin/TASS
2) Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, right, shows Angolan Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola President Agostinho Neto how to drink a daikiri . 1976. The Associated Press.

Zainab Kuku is currently focused on reading fictio

Zainab Kuku is currently focused on reading fictional texts by Black writers. #OnSite⚡️

Founder of Indigo Distortion and author of ‘Collaborative and Experimental: The Evolution of Afrobeats and Its Current Landscape’ Zainab Kuku, believes any Afrobeats musician that is currently highly-rated is deservedly so: ‘I think everyone who is rated highly right now deserves it and they have worked hard for that praise. The Nigerian music industry before streaming was really hard, there was no clear structure for distributing music and a lot of our highly rated artists started out in that era. There is nothing overrated about that.’

In our latest First Draft interview, Kuku discusses how writing enables her to stay connected to the things she loves; her admiration for Asake and Ayra Starr as artists; the importance of Black characters being central in anything she chooses to read in her leisure time and writing as a tool for self-discovery.

Kuku explains: ‘I write to gain a better understanding of who I am at my core. Writing informs me of the things I care about and it keeps me connected to the things in life that move me, such as music, literature, art and different aspects of Black culture. When I write, I’m honouring my inner child and I think that’s my biggest motivating factor for doing it.’

Read the full interview at the link in our bio.
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📝: Zainab Kuku
🎨: Onyinye Dike, Art Director

INEC Resists Worrisome Attacks #RxNews📡 Have y

INEC Resists Worrisome Attacks #RxNews📡

Have you noticed the increased attacks on Independent National Electoral Commission offices as the 2023 elections draw closer? Do you think this insecurity is likely to undermine the electoral process?

On 27 November 2022, unidentified arsonists set fire to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in the Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State.

In our latest online essay, associate editor at The Republic, Peace Onafuye, notes that in a statement following the incident, Festus Okoye, the national commissioner and chairman of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee, revealed that the incident occurred at around 10 a.m. in Izzi Local Government Area office in Iboko.

Okoye also confirmed on Twitter that the resident electoral commissioner in the Ebonyi, Onyeka Ugochi, had informed INEC headquarters, Abuja, of the development. 340 ballot boxes and an unknown number of permanent voters cards (PVCs) were among the items lost in the attack.

According to Okoye, ‘Although no casualties resulted from the attack, the main building and all the movable and immovable items inside it were destroyed.’

While the attack has been reported to the police and other security authorities, it calls for concern. Similar attacks on the INEC’s offices in Ogun and Osun on the 10th of November preceded the attack in Ebonyi.

Read the full essay at the link in bio.
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📝: Peace Onafuye, Associate Editor
📷: INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. INEC NIGERIA / TWITTER

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