We try to keep a positive vibe going here at This Is Africa, but every so often you come across something that just paints your mood black. Some of you may already be aware of this, but if like us you’re hearing about this for the first time your jaw will drop. And it’ll probably raise the same BIG questions in your mind that it did in ours.
Politics and Society
Politics and Society Reconnecting with our African ancestry: feminism in Yorubaland
My interest in African history – along with my need to learn as much as possible about women in African history – has resulted in my different view of what life was like for women in the past. African history remains truly diverse and complex
Politics and Society African parents punish creatively
In a previous post about African versus European craziness, “Crazy oddity #4: ‘dealing’ with your kids” brought up fond memories of the corporal punishment inflicted on some of our readers. We thought we’d explore this side of the discipline issue a bit more.
Politics and Society ‘Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara
A week before he died, Sankara said, “revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, but you cannot kill ideas”. And so, for us today, the final challenge rests not in finding more Sankaras, but in becoming them – in bringing these ideas to life
Politics and Society Self-esteem and race in Nigeria
Why do some Nigerians put white people on a pedestal, while others criticise the idea that having paler skin makes you more intelligent, beautiful and successful?
Politics and Society Why do Africans think South Africa isn’t African?
There seems to be a general consensus amongst Africans that while it is occasionally acceptable to comparatively group countries within the continent together, South Africa stands on its own, South Africa is not real Africa. Are we only satisfied with a poorer, less developed Africa or has apartheid left an un-healable scar in the African continent?