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Black South Africans Are Trying To Heal From the Mental Damage of Apartheid

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I became conscious of the black liberation movement in South Africa when I was a child. My dad would play South African music and me and my sisters would dance […]

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Activism, Human Rights, Journalism, Race, Society, Violence, Young People

Africans & #BlackLivesMatter

July 17, 2016by Admin 2 Comments

Activists in both South Africa and Kenya are drawing on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile to highlight the global echoes of their own social justice causes. CAPE […]

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Activism, African-American, Human Rights, Politics, Race

5 Hot Dances From Africa That You Should Check Out

June 19, 2016by Admin 2 Comments

I’m a dance enthusiast. I started taking dance classes as a child. I was about six years old when I took my first ballet class. I moved onto liturgical dance. […]

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Remembering #IfAfricaWasABar

April 17, 2016by Admin Leave a comment

  One of the best hashtags ever! Remember?   The hashtag grabbed the attentions of millions of people. I was certainly one of them. It all started in July 2015. […]

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Culture, Innovation, People, Society, Young People

White South African Sangoma

December 30, 2015by Admin Leave a comment

    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 […]

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Culture, Religion, Society, Spirituality

First African Team to Compete in Tour de France

January 30, 2015by Admin Leave a comment

South African cycling team makes history South African team MTN-Qhubeka received one of five wildcard invitations to the 2015 Tour de France, making it the first team from Africa to […]

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Africans Need to Stop Listening to the Colonial Voices in their Heads

January 17, 2014by Admin 1 Comment

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 […]

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Activism, Development, Society

Study finds growth not helping Africa’s poor

October 2, 2013by Admin 1 Comment

Survey says African countries have failed to reduce poverty despite economic growth experienced over the past decade. Improved economic growth over the past decade in Africa has failed to reduce […]

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Development, Poverty

Mandela, From Frame To Heart

July 3, 2013by Admin 3 Comments

Nelson Mandela smiled at me everyday when I walked by him. Softly curled lips and softly curled hair, his face beckoned me and I came to him. I’d plop myself […]

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Activism, History, People

Mandela Can Leave Us In Peace, His Work Is done

June 24, 2013by Admin Leave a comment

The notion that SA will dissolve into race riots at the news of Nelson Mandela’s death is so unlikely as to be ridiculous, writes Verashni Pillay. News that our beloved […]

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People

Where The Vagina Counts

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Mothers lay their daughters on mattresses, spread their legs as wide as “Vs,” push their fingers inside their daughters’ vaginas and measure the depth of entry into the soft mounds […]

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Activism, Gender, Sexuality, Society

The Way You Make Me Feel: My Ode To Highlife

January 5, 2013by Admin 4 Comments

He came close, like danger. And nearly stole my heart, nearly snatched it out of its pulsating cavity. But he didn’t use his hands. He used the lazy groans of […]

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Art, Culture, Music, Personal

South Africa Has A Black ‘Idol’

October 10, 2012by Admin Leave a comment

  JOHANNESBURG — When Khaya Mthethwa breathed out the last notes of Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass,” a song he had heard for the first time that same day, the judges […]

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Raising Africa’s Future Leaders

January 25, 2011by Admin 1 Comment

I recently learned about the African Leadership Academy and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Here is a world class secondary boarding school in South Africa that admits […]

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Activism, Education, People

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I'm a journalist, capturing the stories and experiences of Africans. Journalism, anthropology, Africa, these passions keep me alive. Afrocentric Confessions is a space for me to share some of what I find interesting: spirituality, governance, culture, art, activism, social trends and history. And, some of my observations and rantings on where I've been and where I am and where I'm going. I like receiving email. chika.oduah@gmail.com Peace. Chika Oduah

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