The recently published critique by Sandile Memela, “The Coca-Colonisation of African Culture,” was mired in alarmist histrionics, showed little consideration for history and just waved a finger at “anti-African” hip-hop and young people. Wrong targets.
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Lifestyle Twerk: booty-dancing a white privilege?
You ain’t down if you ain’t got the twerk. But why do white girls win cred for twerking while black girls get called “ghetto”, among other things? A case of white privilege?
Lifestyle Sex, Nollywood and Nigerian hypocrisy
If you’re one of Nollywood’s millions of fans around the world, you can’t fail to have read one of the sensational headlines in the blogosphere and Nigerian media earlier this year: “Nollywood now producing blue films”, “From Nollywood to Pornllywood”.
Lifestyle Single by choice: the modern African woman
Contrary to the common complaint, there are lots of eligible and available men in Africa for today’s young, modern, educated African women. So why can’t some young women find their match? There’s something else going on.
Lifestyle Binyavanga: Africa’s bankrupt middle-class
African’s middle-class – along with a huge development industry – is setting the terms of the continent’s “development”, but the central idea seems to be ‘let’s turn Africa into Europe.’ A blistering critique by Caine Prize-awarded author Binyavanga Wainaina.
Lifestyle Men do not cry
West African men on being stoic and trying to gauge who they can express themselves to when things get thick
Lifestyle Why more people need to get divorced
Isn’t it incredibly odd that our societies do everything possible to get us married, yet make it really difficult to get divorced?
Lifestyle Decolonising the mind: The language of North Africa
Given the colonial nature of Arabic in Tamazgha, and its imposition on the indigenous people, there are significant reasons that Africans ought to reject the use of Arabic in favour of their indigenous language. When we do this, we participate in decolonization by supporting the survival of African languages in opposition to the policies of former or current colonial powers