Why Brown Girls Need Brown Dolls
There have long been debates regarding Disney’s lack of diversity and further, the lack of diversity in dolls for children of color. While reading an article on this subject matter, […]
Category Archives: Race
ICC Treats Us As ‘Niggers’: African Anger
ICC or the International Criminal Court has a long history of ‘double-standards’ particularly when it deals with ‘Africa’ – according to many ‘African Presidents’ at least. The mince no words […]
The Gaze On Black Bodies
For her exhibition “Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography”, Ayana V Jackson turns to the archives to touch on the representation of black bodies. The flyers pasted around the cobbled streets […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Prayers For Trayvon’s Mother
Trayvon Martin’s mother lost her son and the man who killed him got away. The murder of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer brings my mind not only […]
Racism’s Big Comeback In America
Racism’s Big Comeback In America America is returning to what it once was. Unfortunately, I’m not referring to its dominance as the world’s only super power or its economic peak, […]
Ikhide Ikheloa: Notes From My Middle Passage
Nothing could prepare me for America, writes Ikhide Ikheloa The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said that she did not realize she was black until she came to America. […]
Hair Your Way: The Politics of Negro Gals’ Hair
“Spiritual” is what he said my hair makes me look. Then, he said “Chika,” Nigerians would “be a little afraid of you.” Chimamanda Adichie was right. Discussing her latest novel, […]
Afrocentric Confessions 