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HAWI: FIRST EVER ETHIOPIAN FEMALE SUPERHERO

“I’m trying to get the word out about the first ever Ethiopian, Female superhero, created by Etan Comics. The series is called Hawi and it’s available in both English and Amharic(official language of Ethiopia) translations. It’s produced by an all African team and happens to be the first of it’s kind. I’m assuming your blog deals with topics like this, and I was wondering if you could get the word out as well? I’m not in any way affiliated with Etan Comics, but I do care deeply about making sure this series is a success. (Seeing Ethiopians get represented like this means a lot to me as an Ethiopian-American myself.) It needs way more publicity than it’s getting!

It’s available for pre-order right now!” -  abriefinqure

Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

The Art of Thomas Hart Benton | Vintage African American Art [From Top]  Portrait of a Musician, 1949 Romance, 1932 The Water Boy, 1946 The Bible Lesson, 1940

Credit: Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri

BlacKkKlansman (2018) directed by Spike Lee

Corey Hawkins as  Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael)

Watch here

We need more black doctors and we need them in our communities!!!!!

These “schools” are popping up out of nowhere and every blow Joe and their mama are getting their licenses (idk how they’re passing their state board exams tbh).

These people are so clueless. Don’t get me wrong - the culture in any health care setting is stressful and the employees are overworked. But ISSA BUSINESS, all they care about is getting good reviews and not getting in trouble with the Feds and they’ll hire any airhead/mindless idiot.

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