Tanzania’s Booty Dance
I don’t like to call it that, “a booty” dance, but it got your attention. I’m presently in Tanzania as part of a reporting fellowship and I was talking to […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Heaven On Earth? Maidens Made In Tanga Tanzania
Tanzanian freelance journalist, Erick Kabendera, writes about the traditions and customs in Tanzania’s Tanga region related to women and sexuality. Tanga women pass down ideas to girls on how a […]
The Expression Of The Sacred In Igbo Culture
“Anyanwu rie asaa kwuru, Ala ejiri Edeuli kwado ya” If the Sun consumes seven and survives, The Earth will back it with Uli expressions” —Igbo Mystical Axiom The nature of […]
Talking Her Out of Skin Bleaching Won’t Work
Race Manners: This choice is one symptom of a society obsessed with whiteness. Being judgmental misses the point. “I have a cousin who’s lived here in the United States for […]
Africa And The Governance Question
If you want to try Africa without government, go to Somalia,” Paul Collier told me in a phone interview a year ago, in the build-up to the 2012 Kuramo Conference […]
Nigeria: Interpretations of Racism
I will call him Smith, my White friend. I admired him, in my days of naiveté, for once berating a waiter who attended to him, with overdone courtesies, before turning […]
Multinational Corporations: The New Colonisers in Africa
Before the end of the first colonialism African nations were properties of their colonial masters who did what they could to rape the continent of whatever resource they deem good […]
The Meaning of African Culture
Ignorance has always been a variable in interpreting contexts and concepts. We rely on flawed and often hypocritical analyses in defining “African culture” and dismissing any label we consider as […]
Syria: A View From Africa
African views on Syria are well worth considering, and the letter signed by 43 members of the Africa Forum—former heads of state and leaders of international institutions—should be compulsory reading: STATEMENT […]
Afrocentric Confessions 