Africa Day: What is it and what does it celebrate?

**David48atTD** · 25-05-2017, 04:49 AM

Africans across the world are today celebrating Africa Day in grand style, dressed in beautiful traditional outfits and putting on a colourful
display of culture, food and diversity.

Africa Day was first held in 1963 in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, when 32 countries formed the Organisation of Africa Unity (OAU).

In the more than half a decade since, 21 additional countries have joined the OAU, with South Africa the last country to join in
1994 after Apartheid ended.

The OAU's original mission was to bring freedom to African countries that were still under colonial rule in the 60s, defend their
sovereignty, uphold human rights and restore the dignity of the African people.

Nowadays, Africa Day is a national holiday in a handful of countries and is widely celebrated by Africans - but what does it mean in a modern age?

Maybe Mr Lulu will do a special African Dish to celebrate today?

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Not a Fan of Africa?

Today is also the Geek Pride Day and the International Towel Day ... I piss you not.

Other Gems from the International Calendar, deemed worthy of their own special observance 'Day' which you can look forward in 2017 are ...

June 6 - World Pest Day Some would say everyday on the TD

June 15 - Global Wind Day ... I'll break that

1st Friday in August - International Beer Day ... I'll drink to that!

September 30 - Well I'll be F*cked ... Blasphemy Day

October 24 - World Tripe Day - interestingly, the few days that doesn't have a link ...

November 19 - International Men's Day though sadly not observed in Thailand

December ... not much fun

OH ... just in case you were wondering ... 2017 is the International Year of Reconnect with Nature

Me?

Matey ... I look forward to 19 September ... International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2017

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**chassamui** · 25-05-2017, 06:21 AM

The South African cricket team have declined to celebrate.

**bobo746** · 25-05-2017, 06:31 AM

International Beer Day. Yahoo

**Cold Pizza** · 25-05-2017, 06:38 AM

Africa Day: What is it and what does it celebrate?

A massive continent with different cultures and religions.

A fair stupid "day" to celebrate, IMO.

**Hugh Cow** · 25-05-2017, 07:20 AM

A day to celebrate release from the shackles of the white devil colonial masters and the massive strides forward made both economically and socially with the blossoming of such great corruption free peaceful African democracies.

**kmart** · 25-05-2017, 09:18 AM

Africa Day: What is it and what does it celebrate?

Quite right. What is Africa good for?-

Selling arms and banned weapons.
Dumping dangerous pharmaceuticals and cigarettes.
Misshapen lumps of wood, laughingly called 'art and handicrafts'.
Culinary delicacies such as 'ants roasted over dung fires'.
Women running around with bare breasts.
Endangered species body parts, such as Rhino horns; sold to gullible Chinks with 1" cocks.
Rape / Genocide / AIDS crises.
More women with bare breasts.

Polite applause for Africa Day

**lom** · 25-05-2017, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by kmart

Women running around with bare breasts.

Nothing wrong with that imho.

Originally Posted by kmart

More women with bare breasts.

yeah, keep 'em coming!

**NZdick1983** · 25-05-2017, 09:58 AM

My contribution

OY.. WTF happened to my contribution.. wasn't x rated... fully clothed black beauty...

fookin poofs! I'll try again... can't find 'er now... she'll 'ave to do... bam!

What's going on with TD? now my original chic appears... hmmm.. someone stole her for a quickie?

**Hugh Cow** · 25-05-2017, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by kmart

Rape / Genocide / AIDS crises.

You missed Ebola

**chassamui** · 25-05-2017, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by kmart

Africa Day: What is it and what does it celebrate?

Quite right. What is Africa good for?-

Selling arms and banned weapons.
Dumping dangerous pharmaceuticals and cigarettes.
Misshapen lumps of wood, laughingly called 'art and handicrafts'.
Culinary delicacies such as 'ants roasted over dung fires'.
Women running around with bare breasts.
Endangered species body parts, such as Rhino horns; sold to gullible Chinks with 1" cocks.
Rape / Genocide / AIDS crises.
More women with bare breasts.

Polite applause for Africa Day

We gave them cricket missionaries and steam trains in exchange for plundering natural resources.

Can't wait for Mugabe to croak so we can retrain all them farmers.

**baldrick** · 25-05-2017, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by kmart

What is Africa good for?

I heard this story yesterday

If you put an african man with 3 petanque balls into a hanger with only one door and lock that door.

watch the door closely and then open it again after one day

you will find he has lost one ball , sold one ball and broken one ball.

the ability of the african male to break things that you have never seen broken before is unassailable

**chassamui** · 25-05-2017, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by kmart

What is Africa good for?

I heard this story yesterday

If you put an african man with 3 petanque balls into a hanger with only one door and lock that door.

watch the door closely and then open it again after one day

you will find he has lost one ball , sold one ball and broken one ball.

the ability of the african male to break things that you have never seen broken before is unassailable

Thanks for sharing Ballers. Gotta love a bit of black botty.

**Klondyke** · 25-05-2017, 01:15 PM

Bush Steps Back Into Spotlight to Help Africa Fight Epidemics
Apil 8, 2017
WINDHOEK, Namibia — In a bleak hospital waiting room, a half-dozen women infected with H.I.V. described how they were able to deliver healthy babies because of drugs purchased with money from the United States.

One of the mothers wanted to know if she could continue to rely on American compassion, a question that one visitor, former President George W. Bush, was eager to answer.

“One reason we’ve come is because we want the people in our country to understand how effective this program is,” Mr. Bush replied through a translator. “Eleven million people now live who wouldn’t have.”

As Congress heads for a bruising showdown over funding this month, Mr. Bush was in Africa this past week to publicize a $6.8 billion assistance program that has done much to save this continent’s future and more than a little to rehabilitate his image.

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In visits to clinics and schools in Botswana and Namibia, Mr. Bush argued that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, which he established in 2004, should not only continue to fight the AIDS crisis in Africa but also expand to tackle the deadly and preventable epidemic of cervical cancer.

“It’s in our national interest to help these governments,” he said.

President Trump’s budget, released last month, promised to preserve Pepfar, but proposed such deep overall reductions in foreign aid that many of the program’s defenders fear for its future, particularly under an administration that has advocated an explicitly transactional approach to international affairs.

For Mr. Bush, a threat to Pepfar imperils not only a population the size of Ohio’s, but also the best part of his legacy.

“What President Bush did in saving millions of lives in Africa is one of the greatest accomplishments of any American president ever,” said James K. Glassman, the former executive director of the George W. Bush Institute. “And, in my opinion, it outweighs what many see as his deficiencies in Iraq and with the economy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/w...cs-pepfar.html

**Thai3** · 29-05-2017, 04:04 PM

Apart from Seretse Khama can't think of one African leader that was not a corrupt murdering bastard

**tomcat** · 29-05-2017, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Thai3

Apart from Seretse Khama can't think of one African leader that was not a corrupt murdering bastard

*cough*: Nelson Mandela springs to mind...

**Thai3** · 29-05-2017, 04:48 PM

oh yeah St Nelson forgot about him, but his wife was a corrupt murdering bastard.

**wasabi** · 29-05-2017, 08:16 PM

Africa day, yes Africa day celebration of the strange way that Africa is reported in the worlds media. They don't report that the reason for the poverty and crime is because they are wired that way, and even with education they are not going to change.

**Thai3** · 29-05-2017, 09:03 PM

Took a younger version of that one in the first pic on holiday to Egypt once. Did not know her that well, turned out she was schizophrenic and left her pills at home as worried about customs. As the 2 weeks went on she got stranger and stranger and quite nasty, got sectioned when she got back. She was a social worker!

**baldrick** · 29-05-2017, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Thai3

can't think of one African leader that was not a corrupt murdering bastard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba

but the seppos knocked him on the head

**TuskegeeBen** · 30-05-2017, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

A day to celebrate release from the shackles of the

What? Who? Themselves, to be more precise. Indeed, celebrate Cassava Root Day. Hallelujah, for that much of a product, produced in sub-Sahara Africa, for global market consumption

**TuskegeeBen** · 30-05-2017, 06:02 AM

Cancelled

**chassamui** · 30-05-2017, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by wasabi

even with education they are not going to change.

Education and free bicycles can solve most third world problems.

www.worldbicyclerelief.org/en/

**TuskegeeBen** · 30-05-2017, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by chassamui

Originally Posted by wasabi
even with education they are not going to change.

Indeed, one must be compelled to survive, within that

reality , to "know" that reality.

**wasabi** · 30-05-2017, 08:56 PM

A lot similar ^ to the posters on here who explain their understanding of Thai ways.

**baldrick** · 30-05-2017, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by wasabi

A lot similar ^ to the posters on here

aging racists ?

they seem to have come out of the closet in numbers since drumpf won

which is not much of a surprise since now they believe they have a mandate to air their real views

every single state vote percentage closely matched the use of the word nigger in google and predicted the swing states

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