August 2011
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Don't fight us it's not worth it.
People dont fight a West African. There is no point. It’s not that they will beat you up physically. They will injure you with their words. Your whole family and generation will be insulted that you will feel it for years. The insults that I just heard being hurled at someone. Hmmm we are champions at making you feel and look like a big fool.
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shesgotsweets-deactivated201202 asked: Thank you!! (In regards to my afro girl painting). You are too kind.
My thoughts on the colonial Africa themed wedding.
I’m sure by now you have heard about or seen the pictures of a couple that had a “colonial Africa” themed wedding in South Africa recently. I wont post pictures on my blog.
I was not happy to see the pictures on tumblr yesterday and the only thought that kept running through my mind was “why did they think this was ok?” Really who sits down to come up with a theme...
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Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Accra’s largest free urban festival and the first annual Chale Wote Street Art Festival is preparing to take over James Town by welcoming over 250 artists from different disciplines for a music and art showdown on July 16.
The festival is hosted by ACCRA [dot] ALT, The French Embassy and Institut Francais. ACCRA [dot] ALT is a multimedia platform that encourages the exploration and...
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Black skin, white masks: 60 years down the road,...
By Jenerali Ulimwengu
If there is something that has done greater damage to the African than even the most brutal forms of physical and material abuse, it is the mental enslavement, the utter psychological annihilation, the cultural strangulation and the spiritual emasculation that foreign invaders visited on us, and which we have apparently agreed to perpetuate.
The foreign marauders, whose...
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WatchAfrican Booty Scratcher
A short film by Nikyatu Jusu
Watching this short film I could relate in certain ways to how the main character felt. As a young person it can sometimes be hard to embrace a life and culture that is different from the one your friends are living.
So What Are You?
Recently I watched the movie “From Prada to Nada”. It’s a movie based on Jane Austen’s novel “Sense and Sensibility”, but with a Latin twist on the story.
One part of the movie had me thinking a lot about who I am, and what I consider to be my culture/heritage. In one scene the character Mary was asked about her love interest if she was Mexican and she replies by saying “No my parents are”, which...
