Botswana: Africa’s Success Story?
The most impressive person I met in Botswana barely said a word. She was an older woman, small in stature. We were sitting next to each other at a table […]
Author Archives: Chika Oduah
The Music Never Ends In Mali
Oumou Sangare is a grand woman. The tips of her fingers are colored in black and red dye. She wears those boubou gowns with the wide necklines that fall over […]
The lost children of Nigeria: Boko Haram orphans thousands
Thousands of youths orphaned or separated from their parents by Boko Haram’s campaign of violence face ongoing trauma YOLA, Nigeria — Rose Wakulu is exhausted. Yet the 25-year-old […]
In Nigeria, neglected women bear the shame of fistulas
At least 500,000 women have vaginal fistulas, largely as a result of lack of medical care during pregnancy and labor JOS, Nigeria — After giving birth five times, all Amina […]
Miss Jill Scott, Black History Month
Miss Jill Scott. I love you. Not because you have a beautiful face and a wonderful body and a delicious voice, but because of what and who you represent. You […]
The Afro-German Experience Under Hitler
January 27 is the UN’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Commemorated to remember the liberation of Auschwitz, largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers But I am writing this […]
African Superheroes
You Don’t Have To Be White To Save The World I borrowed the title of this post, “African Superheroes, You Don’t Have To Be White To Save The […]
First Genocide in the 20th Century
The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered to have been the first genocide of the 20th century. It took place between 1904 and 1907 in German South-West Africa(modern day Namibia), […]
Annual Voodoo Day Celebration
Ritual dances, goat slaughtering and gin: Thousands gather for voodoo religious festival in tiny African country of Benin COTONOU Jan 10 (Reuters) – The national voodoo holiday in the West […]
White South African Sangoma
Bare-foot, with rattles on his ankles and wearing a colourful beaded ceremonial skirt, a white boy with short blond hair makes shamanic-like dance moves to a frantic drum […]
Afrocentric Confessions 