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Plantation Owners, Trinidad.

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Two of Queen Victoria’s grandsons, King George V of the United Kingdom and Kaiser Wilhelm II unveil the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace, 1911

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Goodbye, South Africa.

There is a saying... "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

https://youtu.be/Jq0GReiZyKc

Malaysia had policies which favoured its own ethnic majorities and it became uncompetitive and weak economically. Zimbabwe did the same as South Africa is doing now, and look at it today.

Watch as South Africa is ruined next. A modern 'Econocide'.

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Language Moodboard: Wayuu 

The Wayuu language is spoken by the Wayuu; a Native American people indigenous to the region of La Guajira on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Colombia. The Wayuu refer to their language as Wayuunaiki, and according to linguists it belongs to the Ta-Arawakan branch of the Arawakan linguistic family. Due to this fact, it is believed to be closely related to the now extinct Taíno language; the first language encountered in the Americas by Christopher Columbus and the Spaniards when they reached the Bahamas.

The Wayuu are one of the fastest growing Indigenous groups in South America, because of this the language which has around 300,000 speakers is also growing, however social pressure to learn the Spanish language has become an obstacle for maintaining that growth. The main cause of this social pressure is one that is seen throughout Latin America, which is the prevalent discrimination of speakers of non-European languages, specifically Indigenous ones, by those who speak European based colonial languages such as Spanish, French, or Portuguese. Wayuu activists have launched many initiatives, such as creating the first illustrated Wayuu-Spanish dictionary, in hopes to promote interchange between speakers of the Indigenous language and those of Spanish, but also to instill pride in young Wayuu’s who feel they need to adopt Spanish as their primary language in order to mobilize socially.

The Wayuu as an Indigenous group are unique as they managed to resist Spanish colonization unlike most other native Colombian and Venezuelan groups, and for this reason there has been minimal Spanish influence on the language until very recently. This factor has also helped in making them the largest Indigenous ethnic group in Colombia and Venezuela simultaneously, and thus the Wayuu language the most commonly spoken Indigenous language in the both countries. 

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Just when I thought Black Hogwarts was it, my Caribbean people came through lmao.

@angelpanda

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Trinidad, British West Indies, 1950s

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British Victorian West India Regiment Uniform Collection of Colonel John George Vaughn Hart

With a Pattern 1845 Infantry Officer’s Sword

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West India Docks, built by the West India Committee in 1802, then and now. Today it is home to the Museum of London Docklands which tells the story of Sugar & Slavery alongside the history of the British Empire and the Caribbean. It is free to visit and very close to central London. 

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Views from Woodford Square #street #streetphotography #streetshot #urban #trinidad #trinidadandtobago #history #woodfordsquare #portofspain #vsco #instagood #park #trees #nature #pathway #architecturephotography (at Woodford Square)

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San Fernando Hill

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Frederick Street,1958. Trinidad and Tobago.

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Frederick Street. Trinidad and Tobago.

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Tanzania

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IG: ohsunnyph ❤️

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Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 – 15 August 1880) was a West African Egbado omoba of Yoruba royalty who was orphaned in inter-tribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Victorian Lagos philanthropist. (x)

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Queen Elizabeth II on her Coronation Day, 2 Jun 1953 by Cecil Beaton