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.
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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