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 […]
Author Archives: Chika Oduah
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 […]
She Sings To Know She’s Alive
“I sing to know that I’m alive” starts with a calypso-inspired rhythm, Nina’s piano playing trails in. Then her unrefined, jarring voice “I sing just to know that I’m alive, […]
It Happened To Me
I got a job in New York City a few years ago. I was new to the American North; I still reeked of the South. Pillsbury biscuits, Georgian peaches and […]
Facing Child Marriage In Nigeria
The Nigerian Senate is reeling in the backlash of a sweeping outpouring of public protests. Activists and protesters are rallying on streets, tweeting and hashtagging #ChildNotBride, sharing editorials in the […]
Afrocentric Confessions 