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A Somalia student, Mariam Noor has developed a medical device that helps prevent leaking heart valves, which could eliminate the need for heart surgery.🇸🇴 The Somali student from Aarhus University Denmark spent three years designing and developing a ring that may cure patients with a leaking heart valve, also known as aortic insufficiency. Mariam's invention has been hailed by cardiologists as revolutionary and could have a major impact on the world of surgery. As a Somali student, Mariam serves as an inspiration to individuals from Africa and diverse backgrounds pursuing careers in science and technology.

It's possible that in the span of one week, Bolsonaro loses in Brazil, Netanyahu loses in Israel, and Republicans lose the house and senate. Here's hoping fascism loses everywhere.

The lie about Africa was not a small lie carelessly told. It was a structural lie, deliberately constructed, institutionally maintained, academically defended. It required the renaming of things. Egypt became, in the Western imagination, not quite African. The pyramids became a "mystery," because the alternative was crediting Africans with their construction, which the framework could not accept. It required the discrediting of Arab and African scholarship about African history. It required the dismissal of oral traditions as legend rather than history. It required deciding that writing on paper counted as "civilization" and other forms of knowledge transmission did not. It required, essentially, redesigning the criteria for what counted as "civilization" so that the places being colonized would fail the test. The test was not neutral. The test was written to produce a specific result. And that result was: "Africa has no history worth the name." Therefore what colonialism destroyed was not civilization. Therefore what colonialism did was not destruction. This is not an accusation of individual ignorance. This is a description of institutional architecture, built over centuries, maintained by people who understood exactly what it was for.

Hegel, the philosopher, the foundational figure of Western intellectual tradition, the man whose ideas shaped how generations understood history and progress and civilisation, said Africa had no history. Literally. In "The Philosophy of History," published posthumously in 1837, he described Africa as "the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of self-conscious history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night." No history. No development. No participation in the movement of human civilization. This was not a fringe opinion. These were the intellectual assumptions that would help legitimize European colonial domination and, decades later, the partition of an entire continent. Now. While Hegel was writing this, the Oyo Empire in West Africa governed millions of people through a sophisticated constitutional system with checks on royal power. While Hegel was writing this, the Kingdom of Dahomey had a standing army, a complex taxation system, and active diplomatic relationships with the European powers who were simultaneously, in their salons and academies, insisting the continent they were negotiating with had no civilization worth the name. While Hegel was writing this, the Asante Empire operated under legal codes that European jurists would have recognized as sophisticated if they had been written in a language those jurists were willing to read. While Hegel was writing this, the manuscripts of Timbuktu, hundreds of thousands of texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine, theology, history, were being preserved by African scholars in the city his tradition insisted had produced no thought worth preserving. And while Hegel was writing that Africa had no history, Ethiopia already had one that stretched back more than four thousand years. Egyptian pharaohs, themselves African rulers, had been sending fleets to trade with the Land of Punt, in the Horn of Africa, as early as 2500 BCE. Gold, frankincense, myrrh, ebony, ivory. By the third century CE, the Kingdom of Aksum was minting its own coinage, trading across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and commanding such international recognition that the religious teacher Mani counted it alongside Rome, Persia and China as one of the great kingdoms of the world. Its written literary tradition in Ge’ez carried scripture, philosophy, law, and royal chronicles that predated most of the nations doing the accusing by centuries. The darkness was not in Africa. It was in the theory that needed Africa to be dark.

Lula vs. Bolsonaro: I was held in solitary confinement for 1,901 days for revealing the truth about the U.S. government's killings and espionage, including against Brazil and its industries. Out of power, Lula fought for my freedom. In power, Lula discussed my persecution with Pope Francis, who decided to meet with my family and offer help. After my release, Lula and I met in Rome to mourn the Holy Father's passing. Lula was kind to my children and asked for nothing in return. In contrast, Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro did nothing and said nothing. Yet without the ability to say no to Washington and Tel Aviv, there can be no domestic policy, only foreign instructions. Those orders are always the same: "Expand our theft of resources and wages, and keep your mouths shut about us murdering children." Sellouts will surrender everything in exchange for a cut, even their own tongues.

Michigan, are you fired up and ready to vote? Watch to hear why you should elect @JocelynBenson, @AbdulElSayed, and Democrats across the ballot. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🔥🔥🔥HOLY HELL: Whatever you do, do not repost this as Donald Trump will lose his shit if he hears this insane applause Ohio gave Obama today!

@FoxNews The was Gold from Obama, “cheese cake factory line was father ages, lol

@JayinKyiv Don’t boo vote and Sadam Hussein cheese cake factory line was for the ages, lol

@RodinSimi Shut up got embarrassed by Spurs at your own stadium

@mayor_united Idiot

@krassenstein Trump is so insecure it’s unreal. Just can’t make Bron give him some love

@PeakSxnti They didn’t score bar penalties Arsenal nullified that PAG team to death

@andrelmeyer17 @DougieCritchley Arsenal gave them so much trouble and they won’t want to face this Arsenal side again

@piersmorgan Piers STOP IT you sound PETTY

@BlueBoxDave Tommy got schooled. JFK was a catholic he was told to disavow the Pope. JFK stated that he was not the Catholic candidate for president, but the Democratic nominee who happened to be Catholic. El-Sayed who happens to be Muslim is running for for senate not Muslim brotherhood

@RishiSunak Go away you are the problem

@sweatystartup Typical American worrying about nothing

@CharlieWalsham_ Harry has more balls than all Royals combined, fought wars for his country and doesn’t take a single penny from taxpayers money, salute the man.