Nigeria’s Woman Problem
In my city, Abuja, an NGO called the Society against Prostitution and Child Labour has been collaborating with the city’s Environmental Protection Board to round up any woman found on […]
Category Archives: Society
Sounds of Kinshasa
Sounds of Kinshasa: music, dance and culture are a lifeline in Congo The Congolese have long been neglected by those in power, doing what they can to get by in […]
I Allowed People to Mispronounce My African Name for 25 Years
My Thing Is: I’ve finally reclaimed “Mame.” For my parents and me, it’s an homage and a spiritual connection to my ancestry. In a recent interview with the Improper Bostonian, […]
Women Beyond The Veil In Mali
There are no beds in the small concrete home Madame Gassamba shares with her four teenage daughters. When night falls, cushions pushed against the spotted walls serve as […]
Influx of African Immigrants Shifting National and New York Demographics
Threatened with arrest in 2009, Lamin F. Bojang fled Gambia after publicly contradicting its president’s claims that he could cure AIDS. Now 31, Mr. Bojang lives in Concourse Village […]
Everyday Racist Treatment Of Africans Abroad
Many Africans leave their majority Black countries with naïve notions of race and racism, and the realisation that someone else sees them as less than human simply because of the […]
Senegal’s Former Leper Village Struggles To Shake Off Stigma
The Petite Cote, the sun-drenched heart of Senegal’s tourist industry, boasts mile-upon-mile of shimmering Atlantic coastline shaded by towering cocoa palms — and the country’s largest former leper colony. Officially […]
Becoming Nigerian Part 1: One Year In
This is part 1 of my series ‘Becoming Nigerian’ I flew into Abuja, Nigeria on a Lufthansa aircraft in December 2012. It’s been one year, a year of profound personal […]
After God Is The Condom: Sexual Health In Nigeria
Bassey Ngehaje does not have a problem using condoms. When that moment approaches, when he’s aroused in the company of an alluring woman, Bassey pulls out a condom and puts […]
Africans Need to Stop Listening to the Colonial Voices in their Heads
In Africa’s parliaments, presidential palaces and boardrooms, Africans continue to obey the commands of other peoples, nations and continents telling them what to do. On 10 December, a petrified world […]
Afrocentric Confessions 