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two beauties on the road !
#defender#landrover#defender90#safari#landroverdefender#animalgeography#botswana#moremi#lionesses#game reserves#game drive
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This is my portrait of Moremi Ajasora, a legendary Ayaba (Queen) of the Yoruba kingdom of Ife in what is now southwestern Nigeria. Her husband, Oranmiyan, would have been the second king in Ife’s history. When an enemy people called the Ugbo besieged Ife, Moremi offered herself as a captive to them. Her time among the Ugbo, combined with the aid of the spirit of the Esmirin River, allowed her to learn how to defeat their armies, which she relayed to her own people after escaping back to Ife.
Unfortunately, in exchange for the help the river spirit had given her earlier, Moremi had to sacrifice her only son, Oluorogbo. To console her for her loss, the people of Ife offered to be her eternal children, honoring her legacy more than any other woman in Yoruba history. A statue erected to her in 2017 is now the tallest sculpture in all Nigeria.
#moremi#yoruba#nigerian#west african#african#black woman#woman of color#dark skin#woc#digital art#art#portrait
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Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire (Cortos animados, 2023): una representación que si vale la pena ver
A pesar de que siempre digo que no quiero endurecer la línea del blog uniéndome a batallas “culturales”, lo cierto es que el problema esta ahí y marca las cosas que el mass media hace actualmente. Y en medio, casi diríamos dirigiendo, está Disney. La compañía del ratón tiene, para bien y más para mal, que quiere liderar esta corrección política, inclusión y representación. Auto denominándose en…
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#Africa#Anthony Silverston#Cortos animados#Disney Plus#Enkai#First Totem Problems#Futuro#Hatima#Herderboy#Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire#Mkhuzi: The Spirit Racer#Moremi#Mukudzei#Stardust#Surf Sangoma#Triggerfish Animation#You Give Me Heart
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[English below] Es ist mal wieder Zeit für ein Elefantenbild! 🐘🐘🐘 Funfact: #elefanten wechseln 6 Mal ihr Gebiss, dann ist Schluss. Wenn diese Zähne abgenutzt sind, muss der Elefant verhungern. 🐘🐘🐘 Daher fressen ältere Tiere, so wie dieser #elefantenbulle gern die weichen #seerosen und #wasserhyazinthen . 🐘🐘🐘 Auf meinem Blog gibt es den letzten Beitrag zu meiner Reise durch #botswana , wo ihr mehr erfahren könnt. LINK in Bio➡️ 🐘🐘🐘 It's time for another 📸 of an #elephant 🐘🐘🐘 #funfact : elephants change their teeth 6 times. After that, they starve to death, when the last teeth are gone. 🐘🐘🐘 That's why this elderly #elephantbull eats these soft water lilies and water hyacinths. 🐘🐘🐘 #travelphotography #moremi #chamäleonreisen #travelingmakesyouhappy #reisebilder #botsuana #reisebloggerin #reisenmachtglücklich #reisenbuchtmanimreisebüro #reiseblog #africa #afrika (hier: Okavango Delta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CncacU1stWN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Queen Moremi: Legend of the Yoruba heroine
Queen Moremi is well known today due to her act of valor as far back as the 12th century, which solved an age long worry of the Ile-Ife kingdom.Queen Moremi Ajansoro was the wife of Oranmiyan, the heir to the King of Ife and Founding Father of the Yoruba tribe, Oduduwa, she was also the youngest and favourite Queen of the king.At a time in ancient Yoruba land, the people of Ile-Ife people were…
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The mane thing: A stunning lion known as Mmamoriri is treated differently within her own pride and outside it. Wearing what looks like a gorgeous male mane, Mmamoriri actually is a female and is treated as such inside her pride. But outside the family group, she’s seen as a male, which appears to make it easier to fend off hyenas and rival males, says photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Mattias Klum. He took Mmamoriri’s image near Mombo Camp in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve.
Photographer: Mattias Klum
#mattias klum#photographer#national geographic#mmamoriri#lion#wildlife photography#nature#mombo camp#botswana#moremi game reserve
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Moremi Game Reserve - Botswana
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local tumblr user “funky” ““ bird”” has decided to move to a new art tag, “funky!art”. Our brave reporters will continue to update you as the situation escalates.
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Dear anyone who has disney+
GO WATCH GENERATION FIRE RIGHT TF NOW IT IS INCREDIBLE
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Xakanaxa campsite, in Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
#defender#land rover#defender90#safari#animalgeography#landroverdefender#botswana#africa#wildlife#okavango#moremi#bush campsite
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Seven Great African Queens You Should Learn About:
1)- Queen Amina of Zazzau (Nigeria)
2)- Queen Makeda of Egypt and Ethiopia
3)- Queen Kandake of Ethiopia
4)- Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Kemet (Egypt)
5)- Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa I of Ashanti Kingdom (Ghana)
6)- Queen Nandi of Zulu Kingdom (South Africa)
7)- Queen Moremi of Ile-Ife Kingdom (Nigeria)
These Great African Queens existed, but we were not taught about them in school.
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Nile Monitor Lizard (Varanus niloticus), family Varanidae, Moremi, Botswana
photograph by Gilmozzi Giuseppe
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Law comforting you when you're teary from PMS
A/N: another self-indulgent one, folks...and not one of the ones I'm supposed to be writing. You could read this as pretty early on in knowing Law, hence why he's referred to as "Captain Law" several times.
T/w: period talk and mention of cramps/blood, reader has a vagina
During your last bloody run-in with the Marines, you handled things perfectly fine. Actually, and you wouldn't say this to anyone but your reflection, you did stellar. Covering the Heart Pirates' backs with your sniper rifle, ordering your flying fire cat Moremi to evacuate as many of the injured as possible, and calling out threats as you saw them. You kept a cool head despite your and Moremi's injuries, the danger, and the constant pumping of adrenaline in your veins. The crew was impressed, as a new addition you had a lot to prove...especially to Captain Law.
And then there was the drop off. After things settled a little, after you were cocooned within the metal safety of the Polar Tang, your body betrayed you.
Waking up in the middle of the night to a familiar ache in your abdomen, you shoved Morimi's warm, purring mass off of you to shuffle to the bathroom, and sure enough, even in the dim light the bathroom could see the dark stain of blood on your underwear.
Of course.
Horrible timing as usual.
You thought you had another week, which would've been enough time catch up on organizing your reports, cataloging your discoveries properly, and helping Captain Law care for the injured, but you didn't...clearly.
You took care of it and stumbled back to bed, so exhausted you could barely keep your eyes open.
You woke up to your energy completely sapped; your brain and body blanketed with an inescapable shroud of fog. Despite your crewmates waking up around you and getting their day started, your body wasn't moving. Or rather, the part of your brain that could list everything you wanted to do today, everything you expected yourself to do today, was a tiny whisper compared to the heaviness of your eyelids and limbs.
"I'm just so tired," you said into Miremo's fur, curling into her further. She was like your own personal heating pad.
It was infuriating. Just days ago you were bandaging wounds cheerfully, despite your grim situation and collecting stories from the islanders. And now...it felt like there was nothing in the world that could make you move.
Much later than everyone else you eventually made your way to kitchen to eat something before your cramps got worse again. Your breakfast, which forced a pitiful laugh out of you, were the quickest snacks you could grab and a glass of milk. The thought of eating in the kitchen crossed your mind and was quickly swallowed by the haze floating around your skull. You didn't realize the thought had occurred until you were already in bed with Moremi again. Was your brain really that far gone?
Now couldn't be a worse time, except maybe during the battle, but still! There was still so much left to do and you were in bed! Doing nothing except eating breakfast! Even your own slow, lazy chewing was getting on your nerves. The sounds of the crew going on with their duties outside the door only made everything worse.
Weak. You're so weak.
Tears started to sting your nose and eyes.
"Great," you sniffles. "So I'm just going to sit here and cry."
Not that you had much against crying, but there was still so much more to do. So much you could be helping your new crew with. So much you could be doing to safeguard all the new tales and knowledge you had gathered.
Moremi twitched as tears sizzled and steamed on her fur. She shifted on top of you to nuzzle your arm with her nose but otherwise didn't move much.
Just then, the door opened, and none other than your captain Trafalgar Law entered. His eyes found you immediately, a scowl formed on his lips.
"Y/N-ya, you're still in bed. Your injuries weren't that severe. Did something happen?"
Exactly. He's right. Get up.
"No," you wipe your tears away. "Just being lazy, I'll get up, captain." Moremi growls a little at being shoved off. You know she's more upset that you're getting up when you shouldn't than at being moved.
Law stops you. "If you're ill please stay in bed. I'll tell the others to keep away from you."
You almost wish that was the case. Your cramps weren't even that bad, you were just exhausted....exhausted like everyone else probably was.
"No, I'm not. I'm just exhausted."
The last thing you expected was for Law to sit down on your bed next to Moremi and grab your face. His hand was gentle but cold and smelled like some kind of medical cleanser. He lifted your chin to observe you, looking for something.
"Open your mouth."
You do so almost without thought.
He continued to examine you. "I don't have lazy crewmembers," he said.
Even with your captain's words, you didn't feel the urge to get up, which only made you despair further.
Tears started to sting your eyes again. With Law squeezing your face a little, they rolled down your cheeks immediately. "I know...I'm sorry, captain."
Law's eyes widened in shock and he let go as if burned. "Y/N-ya." Law sits awkwardly, clearly at a lost for words. "I...I didn't mean to scare you, if that's what it is."
The tears take you over completely. "No, I'm just so tired." You sobbed. "And there's so much to do, but I can't. I can't even think straight. I stand up and my body hurts and I can't fight it anymore. I don't have it in me. I'm just so, so tired. I'm sorry I can't do anything." You sobbed into your hands, covering your face and cried.
A long silence followed, so long you thought Law had left, and then, the weight of his hand on your shoulder pulled your face from your hands.
"You did well in our fight, you need to rest." He spoke matter-of-factly but tenderly. You had never heard him speak so carefully to anyone.
"But you're--"
"We're different people," he said. "If you tried to help now, you'd accomplish nothing. I think we both know that."
Your eyes already felt heavy. At some point you had started to lean as if falling over. You began to doze in front of Law but you saw no judgment in his eyes, just a softness that released the knot of restless guilt in your stomach.
"I told you, I don't have lazy crewmembers. That includes you." Law slowly guided you into laying down and pulled the covers around you with surprising kindness.
"I'll have Ikkaku bring you something real to eat when you wake up. Just rest until you feel better. We can handle ourselves."
You didn't realize Law lingered watching you sleep soundly for a moment before turning the lights off in the cabin with a small smile.
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[Deutsch unten] My tour to Botsuana starts in #simbabwe at #victoriafalls . First a flight in a 🚁 over the #falls and the next morning a walking tour along the rim of the falls. 💧💧💧 Meine Reise durch Botswana startet in Simbabwe mit einem 🚁 Flug über die #victoriafälle Und am nächsten Morgen mit einem Spaziergang entlang der Kante. 💧💧💧 #Wasserfall #wassermassen #africa #naturwunder #mothernature #helicopter #flightoverafrica #chamäleonreisen #moremi #reisebilder #reisenmachtglücklich #travelingmakesyouhappy #reisenhochdrei #angelsflights (hier: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiufWOiMJar/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#simbabwe#victoriafalls#falls#victoriafälle#wasserfall#wassermassen#africa#naturwunder#mothernature#helicopter#flightoverafrica#chamäleonreisen#moremi#reisebilder#reisenmachtglücklich#travelingmakesyouhappy#reisenhochdrei#angelsflights
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7 greatest African women you should learn about them.
1)- Amina of Zaria, Nigeria 🇳🇬
2)- Queen Makeda of sheba, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
3)- Queen Kandake, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
4)- Nefertiti of ancient kemet, Egypt 🇪🇬
5)- Yaa Asantewa of Ashanti kingdom, Ghana 🇬🇭
6)- Queen Nandi of Zulu kingdom, South Africa 🇿🇦
7)- Moremi of Ile-Ife kingdom, Nigeria 🇳🇬.
Thèse great women existed, but we were n0t taught about them in schoòl.
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