Seven children-4: Slavery story isn’t about the past, it’s about how the past lives in the present and continue shaping lives today
The story of Samuel and the seven Thornton children forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about how power determines not just who can speak, but what can be officially known.
Seven children-4: Master’s seven children all looked exactly like one field slave…he never knew until his death
Catherine Thornton, left alone for months at a stretch, walked those fields more often than anyone recorded. And then the children started arriving. The first child, Thomas, came in 1833, exactly 9 months after Robert’s longest absence. Samuel knew the truth from the beginning, a truth he would carry in absolute silence for the rest of his life.
Seven Chldren-3: Slavery reduced people to property regardless of blood ties, genetic connections in a world ruled by skin colour
But workers nearing 50 depreciated like equipment wearing out, their value declining steadily toward whatever they might fetch in a final sale. Samuel understood this calculus with perfect clarity. He had watched it play out with other ageing field workers whose treatment shifted as their usefulness declined. Yet Samuel occupied a peculiar position that complicated these typical patterns.
Seven Children-2: Incredible story of how plantation slave sired 7 children with master’s wife, his carbon-copy elder son inherits him
By 1851, as Robert’s health began failing, Samuel had been carrying this knowledge for 18 years. Eighteen years of watching his children grow. 18 years of knowing the oldest Thomas would soon inherit him as property. That his own son would legally own him.
Wandering stranger: Turning and turning in widening gyre, Destiny has a way of writing the epilogue
For in solitude, the heart begins to respond to its own pulse, summoning thee soul to ebb and flow in the rhythm of the pulse. It is in the absence of noise that purpose whispers clearly. And I learned that sometimes God removes everyone else’s voice so you can finally hear His.
Post-Raila Luo: Coming to grips with the vulgarity, ethnicity and mediocrity that define roots of Luo pride and arrogance
The senior civil servants from the Luo community are just as inadequate as their political leaders. Health Principal Secretary Oluga, had the audacity to post on his Facebook, “Tutam is a reality,” simply because Ruto visited his home, while never mentioning the failing SHA and the dismal health system
Legacy of Mwalimu Nyerere in $137 million ‘sovereignty’ war: How latter-day regimes made Tanzanian businesses vulnerable to foreign banks
The High Court cleared the way for the EADB’s properties in Dar es Salaam to be auctioned and their bank accounts at Standard Chartered to be frozen to pay the businessman.
Transition: Movie icon and karate legend Chuck Norris ‘Missing in Action’ surrounded by ‘family and was at peace’ aged 86
Norris first found fame in karate films of the 1980s, including A Force of One and An Eye for an Eye. By the end of the decade, he was established as one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars. He starred in the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, which premiered in 1993....
Sovereignty gap: Explaining Kenya’s ‘prostitution’ vis-à-vis Tanzania’s patriotism and Uganda’s nonchalance
In contrast, Kenya’s legal and executive arms are more focused on “market-friendly” optics than protecting the Kenyan citizen. From the East African Development Bank (EADB) disputes to the auctioning of local assets under foreign rulings, the system feels less like a shield for the people and more like a bridge for neo-colonial interests.
Truth doesn’t need permission: How first Black woman to own newspaper reshaped American politics
When the founder, John Neimore, fell ill in 1912, he asked Charlotta to take over as editor. She had never run a newspaper. She had no formal journalism training. She was a Black woman in an industry dominated by white men. She said yes anyway.
