Oraad Worldwide

06/03/2026

🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹The proposal to fine parents for their children’s behaviour in schools raises an important question: where does responsibility truly begin and end when it comes to raising our children?

While parents certainly play a critical role in shaping a child’s values and behaviour, we must also acknowledge the reality of modern life. How many waking hours do children actually spend at home with their parents compared to the time spent in school, online, or influenced by the wider society?

If we are serious about addressing violence and disruptive behaviour in schools, we must look at the entire ecosystem influencing our young people, not just the home.

Our education system itself must also come under scrutiny. In many ways, the traditional structure of education has remained largely unchanged for generations, even though the world our children are growing up in has dramatically evolved. Are we adapting our teaching methods, curriculum, and school environments to truly meet the needs of today’s students?

Where are the strong counselling and psychological support programmes to help educators understand what is happening in the minds of our children?
Where are the expanded extracurricular activities that channel energy into sports, arts, and constructive interests?
Where is the reform of teaching methods and curriculum to help each child discover their strengths and potential?

We must also examine the broader social influences affecting our youth: the entertainment they consume, the culture we promote, the availability of positive community activities, and the role of community centres that once helped guide young people.

Are we unintentionally creating environments that shape negative behaviour, only to place the blame solely on parents?

Raising responsible citizens has never been the duty of parents alone. It requires families, schools, communities, and governments working together.

As the saying goes, *it takes a village to raise a child*. If we truly want better outcomes for our children, we must focus not only on punishment, but also on support, reform, and collective responsibility.

26/12/2025

❤️🏴💚Kwanzaa is a Pan-African cultural celebration created to honor African heritage, unity, and self-determination across the global African diaspora. Rooted in African values and traditions, it affirms a shared history and collective responsibility for cultural renewal and liberation.

The first day of Kwanzaa centers on **Umoja (Unity)**—the principle that calls on African people to strive for togetherness in the family, community, nation, and worldwide African family. Umoja reminds us that our strength lies in solidarity, mutual respect, and collective purpose, forming the foundation for all other principles of Kwanzaa.

08/12/2025

💣 The Struggle for African Sovereignty.

Africa is facing a dangerous fight over its sovereignty — and the battlefield is political, economic, and psychological.

From Benin to Burkina Faso to Guinea, a wave of coups and power struggles has exposed something deeper:

👉🏿 Africa is still fighting to control its own destiny.

At the same time, in South Africa, leaders are openly warning that white-supremacy narratives — pushed both internally and externally — are being used to destabilize the nation and influence political direction.

This isn’t accidental.
This is a strategy.

Why?
Because a united, stable, self-determined Africa threatens global power structures that STILL depend on African:

* minerals
* land
* labor
* markets
* political alignment

So when governments shift, when instability happens, when old colonial narratives reappear — Pan-Africanists must understand the bigger picture:

Sovereignty is the frontline of liberation.
If Africa cannot control its own governments, economies, or narratives, then the diaspora cannot fully liberate itself either.

For Pan-Africanists, this means:

* Watch the political landscape closely
* Understand external influence (media, military, financial pressure)
* Support African-led solutions to African crises
* Reject narratives that demonize African independence
* Strengthen diaspora solidarity with pro-sovereignty movements

Africa is not chaotic — Africa is being contested.
And each wave of instability is part of the struggle to break free from centuries-old control systems.

🔥 Awareness is the first weapon. Unity is the second. Action is the third.

27/09/2025

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**William Hardin Burnley** Various estates in Trinidad. Owned around 1,000 enslaved people (making him one of the largest slave-owners on the island) ([UWI St Augustine Journals][1]) | He received a very large share of the compensation paid to Trinidad planters. ([Trinidad and Tobago News][2])

**Burnley & Edw Jackson (mortgagees, Golden Grove estate, Trinidad, Claim No. 1461)** Golden Grove, Trinidad 39 enslaved persons in 1834 ([University College London][3]) £2,088 5s to Burnley & Jackson for that claim ([University College London][3])

**Lord William Douglas** Owned 576 enslaved people across multiple estates in Tobago ([Wikipedia][4]) Received **£10,907** compensation in 1837 for his Tobago claims ([Wikipedia][4])

| **Walter Irvine (through his executor / son-in-law William Robert Keith Douglas)** Estates in Tobago (Buccoo, Woodlands, Mt Irvine) Owned estates in Tobago; Irvine was a prominent planter ([University College London][5]) The compensation for those estates was paid to William Robert Keith Douglas (as executor) ([University College London][5])

Additionally, the **National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago** has posted documents showing that owners like *Burnley and Gray* filed for compensation for enslaved persons on estates such as **Cedar Hill** and **Forres Park** (for 170 enslaved persons) ([Facebook][6]).

Another source reported that across Trinidad, the total sum paid to slave owners was **£1,021,858** and that an additional **£233,367** was issued to those who owned enslaved people (possibly a subset or for specific claims).

27/09/2025

13/09/2025

Remembering Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop — Africa’s Scholar of Truth and Legacy ❤️❤️

Remembering Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (Dec 29, 1923 – Feb 1986), the brilliant Senegalese historian, scientist, and Pan-Africanist whose scholarship reshaped how the world views African history. 💯

Diop’s groundbreaking research proved the African origins of ancient Egypt, challenging Eurocentric narratives and restoring dignity to Black civilization.

His iconic works — African Origin of Civilization, Cultural Unity of Black Africa, and Civilization or Barbarism remain essential readings in reclaiming African identity. We salute his work. We salute the man.💯