Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on the 2nd of June in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.

Hayford was born into an elite Sierra Leone family in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. She spent much of her youth in England and studying throughout the West, also studying music in Germany at the age of 17.

While in England, Adelaide married West African author and Pan-Africanist J. E. Casely Hayford (also known as Ekra-Agiman). Their marriage may have influenced her transformation into a cultural nationalist.

In May 1914, Hayford returned to Sierra Leone, dedicating the rest of her life to educating African girls. In October 1923, she established the Girls' Vocational School, one of the first educational institutions in Sierra Leone to provide young girls with an African-centered education, according to historian Keisha N. Blain.

Hayford frequently traveled throughout the world, giving a speaking tour in the United States on misconceptions about Africa. Author Brittany Rogers notes that these travels also exposed her to the exploitation of black female labor throughout the world.

Although her educational concept for young girls had a Victorian-influenced, middle class domesticity in mind, Rogers writes that these travels led Hayford to begin writing and speaking on matters of labor as well. Hayford died in her hometown of Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1960.

"Instantly my eyes were opened to the fact that the education meted out to [African people] had...taught us to despise ourselves. Our immediate need was an education which would instill into us a love of country, a pride of race, an enthusiasm for the black man's capabilities, and a genuine admiration for Africa's wonderful art work."

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  • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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    4 months ago

    someone on here posted about touching grass last night and it made me think about chiggers and prompted me to read the wiki page on chiggers, which led to the wiki page on jiggers aka the sand flea and let me just say, wow, do not look up the sand flea unless you would like to have new nightmarish horrors living inside your head

    because jesus fucking christ, my god, gross, what the fuck, jesus christ

    it's like botfly infestation level horrifying

    I could not imagine that fleas could be worse than they are, but here is the sand flea

    let me tell you about the sand flea because it is really fucked up and I must share my trauma

    basically the males are like regular fleas and will bite you and suck your blood and then fuck off, but the females, they'll bite you and drink your blood and burrow inside and then they live inside your skin, breathing and shitting through the hole they left, as they grow up to the size of a pea, all while their shit attracts male fleas who will mate with them. they then swell up with eggs, release them, and then die and just rot inside your skin while your body Deals With That

    there's a picture on the wiki of an infected foot and it looks like it's been chewed up by rats

    why do things like this have to be real? is it a punishment for us daring to exist?

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 months ago

      A common thread among biologists is that shortly after they begin studying parasites they determine their is no god because no kind or loving god could create something as utterly horrifying as parasites.