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Happy 66th Independence Day, Nigeria! Today, Mapping Colonial History joins millions of Nigerians at home and around the world to celebrate 66 years of Nigeria’s independence. Independence is more than a date on the calendar. It is an opportunity to remember the journeys, struggles, sacrifices and aspirations that shaped the nation we call home. As we celebrate, may we continue to preserve our histories, honour our diverse cultures and keep telling the stories that help us understand who we are and where we come from. Our history matters. Our heritage matters. Our stories matter. Happy 66th Independence Day, Nigeria! 🇳🇬 From all of us at Mapping Colonial History Healing the world through culture. #NigeriaAt66 #IndependenceDay #HappyIndependenceDay #MappingColonialHistory #MCHProjects NigerianHistory AfricanHeritage by @projectsmch
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Welcome to September! A new month offers another opportunity to reflect on where we have come from, understand the histories that shaped us, and remain committed to building a more just and equitable future. At Mapping Colonial History, we believe that remembering is not simply about looking back but about understanding, reclaiming our narratives, preserving our cultures and using the lessons of history to shape the future we want. May this month bring renewed purpose, deeper conversations and a stronger commitment to truth, justice and the preservation of our collective heritage. Happy New Month from all of us at Mapping Colonial History. Healing the world through culture. #MappingColonialHistory #HelloSeptember #AfricanHeritage #HistoricalJustice #AfricanIdentity by @projectsmch
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Today, we honour the people of African descent whose histories, knowledge, and contributions continue to shape our world. Our heritage is not simply something to remember — it is something we carry, create and continue to shape. Recognition must go beyond celebration. It means the right to tell our own histories, reclaim our knowledge, and build futures rooted in dignity, justice and self-determination. At MCH, we believe understanding where we come from shapes where we are going. Recognition. Justice. Development. For Africa and for people of African descent everywhere. #InternationalDayForPeopleOfAfricanDescent #AfricanHeritage #AfricanDiaspora #MCH #DecolonialKnowledge by @projectsmch
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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition Today, 23 August, we remembered, reflected and confronted one of the darkest chapters in human history, while also asking what it means to address the legacies that continue to shape our world. Our Mapping Colonial History commemoration, themed “Ending Slavery’s Legacy of Racism: A Global Imperative for Justice,” brought together voices from across Africa and beyond for a powerful conversation on memory, identity, justice, restoration and the future. To our speakers, moderators, partners, and everyone who joined us from different parts of the world... thank you. Your presence, contributions and willingness to engage made today's gathering meaningful. The work does not end with a conversation. We remember the past. We confront the present. We build a just and equitable future. #MappingColonialHistory #MCHProjects #InternationalDay #SlaveTrade #Abolition by @projectsmch
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JOIN US FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! Today, Sunday, 23 August, Mapping Colonial History brings together voices from across Africa and beyond for a powerful virtual commemoration of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Theme: Ending Slavery’s Legacy of Racism: A Global Imperative for Justice. Time: 3:00 PM Amsterdam time (CET) - Check the poster for your local time. Venue: Online via Zoom FREE EVENT — Registration is completely free. Come ready to listen, reflect, remember and engage. Register here: [Eventbrite — Free Registration](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-colonial-history-a-virtual-commemoration-for-the-international-day-tickets-1998449543381?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=chatgpt.com) Remembering the past. Confronting the present. Building a just and equitable future. #MappingColonialHistory #MCHProjects #AfricanHistory #Decolonisation #RestorativeJustice by @projectsmch
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This Sunday, 23 August 2026, we come together virtually to commemorate the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition under the theme: “Ending Slavery’s Legacy of Racism: A Global Imperative for Justice.” Join HRH Sithabile Mlotshwa, Odilia Anyachi Okonga, Dr. Otieno Ong’ayo (Antony), HRH Drani Zakare of Madi, Uganda, and Dr. Mutjinde Katjiua, Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero, Namibia, for a powerful conversation on history, memory, justice, restoration and the work of building a more equitable future. Date: Sunday, 23 August 2026 Time: 3:00–6:00 PM CET Venue: Online via Zoom FREE TICKETS - NO PAYMENT REQUIRED Come listen, reflect, question and be part of the conversation. Remembering the past. Confronting the present. Building a just and equitable future.  Register for FREE: check link on Bio #MappingColonialHistory #InternationalDay #SlaveTrade #Abolition #RestorativeJustice by @projectsmch
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Save the Date! 23 August marks the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, the night in 1791 when the uprising in Saint-Domingue began, changing the course of history. Slavery did not end. It transformed. Its legacy lives on in the systems that still govern wealth, law, education, and whose lives are valued and whose are not. This year, Mapping Colonial History, an initiative of the Thamgidi Studio Foundation, comes together with the University of Eldoret (Kenya), the African Institute of Professional and Development Studies (AIPDS), the International African School (IAS), Claretian University of Nigeria, the Samaras Modestos Foundation, the Lopirigo of Madi Sub-Region, and the Ovaherero Traditional Authority for a virtual global commemoration under the theme: "Ending Slavery's Legacy of Racism: A Global Imperative for Justice." Join us as we speak this history into memory. Sawubona, we see you. Sikhona, we are here. Date: Sunday, 23 August 2026 Time: 3:00 – 6:00 PM CET Venue: Zoom (link to be shared soon) Save the date. More details coming soon. #MappingColonialHistory #SlaveryRemembranceDay #EndingRacismsLegacy #Sawubona #Sikhona by @projectsmch
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Happy International Youth Day!  Today, Mapping Colonial History celebrates the creativity, courage, energy and vision of young people across Africa and the world. We believe that the work of decolonisation, restoration, healing and reclaiming our histories cannot be left to one generation. Young people must be part of the conversation, the research, the storytelling, the preservation of our cultures and the building of new possibilities. Our history belongs to us. Our cultures belong to us. And the responsibility to understand, protect and carry them forward belongs to us too. To every young person asking questions, challenging inherited narratives, learning their history, preserving their culture, creating new knowledge and imagining a different future, we see you, we need you, and this work is for you. The future is not something we simply inherit. It is something we actively create. Happy International Youth Day from all of us at Mapping Colonial History Network. ❤️🌍 #InternationalYouthDay #MappingColonialHistory #YouthForChange #AfricanYouth #Decolonisation by @projectsmch
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Happy Birthday, HRH Sithabile, Mlotshwa, Mgidi, Makhawulane, Ngwalazindeni, Mazibuko, Ngwalongwalo, Makhombothi, Ntumbeza kaNtuzi, Cabuzela, onyawo zincane, zingaba nkulu zifuz’ekhabonina, Khambule, Mzilankatha, Shezi, Magidla, Sitsha, Phakathi. Today, we celebrate the woman who saw the full web — and spent 25 years teaching the rest of us to see it too. Through research, art, culture, education and knowledge preservation, HRH Sithabile Mlotshwa has built a counter-archive to colonial narratives, challenging us to rethink who we are, where we come from, and whose stories shape our world. Her contribution to conversations on Africa’s heritage, identity and culture has reached international spaces, including the United Nations Africa Dialogue Series, where her work contributed to a new narrative for Africa and from Africa. She is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher and royal whose work centres recognition, identity and restoration. Sawubona — we see you — is more than a greeting in her work; it is an acknowledgement of existence, history, dignity and belonging. She has brought attention to histories and peoples too often pushed to the margins — from the Herero and Nama, Kuba and Luba, Yanomami and San, to Saartjie Baartman and Ota Benga, and histories spanning the Congo, Banda Islands, Cyprus and Gaza. Through the Ledger, Living Web, Pillars and Sikhona — we are here, she continues to remind us that seeing is the beginning of restoration. You cannot repair what you cannot see. You cannot reclaim what you have been taught to forget. Today, we celebrate her commitment to ensuring that African histories, cultures and knowledge are not relics of the past, but foundations for the future. Sawubona, HRH Sithabile Mlotshwa. Ngoba Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu. Happy Birthday. The web is stronger because you are in it. From all of us at Mapping Colonial History Network. #MappingColonialHistory #MCHNetwork #Sawubona #AfricanHeritage #Decolonisation AfricanHistory IndigenousKnowledge Ubuntu Sikhona by @projectsmch
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On the 9th of August, a great tree added another ring. We celebrate His Royal Highness King Drani Stephen Izakare: Paramount Chief of the Madi People, President of the Forum of African Traditional Authorities (FATA), and President of the MCH Africa Chapter, a leader whose authority is not only carried in title but lived in commitment, in land, in memory, and in the work of restoration. HRH King Drani represents what African Traditional Leadership has always been at its most sovereign, the holder of communal memory, the custodian of land, the guardian of the relationship between the living, the ancestors, and the generations not yet born. In a world that has spent five centuries trying to replace African governance systems with colonial architecture, he stands as living proof that those systems did not disappear. They endured. They led. They are leading still. His Chiefdom's offering of 1,500 acres to the MCH Living Commons Network, for the development of a Museum of Memory, a Culture Centre, a Healing Garden, a Slavery Monument, a Resolution Centre, a Living Archive, an Artist-in-Residence, a Biennale, and a Seed Bank, is not a gesture but a declaration. That the land holds the restoration. That African sovereignty is the foundation on which the decolonial future is built. That the Madi people, through their King, are choosing to be at the centre of the healing, not as subjects of someone else's project, but as its ground. As President of FATA, he carries the collective voice of African traditional authorities into the global conversation about governance, land, and cultural sovereignty. As President of the MCH Africa Chapter, he anchors the network's work on the continent in the living authority of traditional leadership, because MCH has always understood that the restoration of what was severed must be led by those who never let go. Happy Birthday, HRH King Drani Stephen Izakare. May this new year bring you continued strength, continued vision, and the deep joy of knowing that the seeds you are planting will feed generations whose names we do not yet know. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. 🌍👑 From all of us at Mapping Colonial History Network #HRHKingDr by @projectsmch
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Zambia’s 73 Tribes: A Rich Cultural Heritage Worth Celebrating By Austin Kaluba Zambia is home to 73 officially recognised tribes, each contributing unique languages, traditions, ceremonies, beliefs, art, cuisine, and indigenous knowledge to the nation’s cultural identity. From the Kuomboka, Nc’wala, Ukusefya Pa Ng’wena, Kazanga, Likumbi Lya Mize and Lwiindi ceremonies to the many indigenous languages and artistic traditions passed down through generations, Zambia’s diversity is a living heritage. These traditions are more than cultural displays. They are living classrooms—preserving history, transmitting knowledge, strengthening communities, and reminding younger generations where they come from. The story of Zambia’s 73 tribes is ultimately a story of unity without uniformity. As the nation continues to embrace “One Zambia, One Nation,” preserving its diverse cultural heritage remains essential to protecting its identity and future. Read the full article by Austin Kaluba on the Lusaka Biennale Facebook page. #Zambias73Tribes #ZambianHeritage #AfricanHeritage #IndigenousKnowledge #CulturalHeritage by @projectsmch
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Happy International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples🎉🎊 Long before colonial borders were drawn across lands that were never theirs to claim, Indigenous peoples held knowledge systems rooted in living in balance with land, water, and one another. That knowledge was disrupted, dismissed, suppressed, and in many places deliberately erased. Yet much of it endured — carried through language, ceremony, oral traditions, relationships with the land, and the ways communities continue to care for and sustain it today. Today, we honour Indigenous peoples across every continent — their sovereignty, resilience, living cultures, ancestral knowledge, and their right to determine their own futures. Indigenous knowledge is not a relic of the past. It is living, evolving, and continuing to shape the future. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousRights #IndigenousKnowledge #LandBack #DecolonizeTheFuture by @projectsmch
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