The ‘cancel culture’ in the black culture is not alien to it. Since the beginning of the time of enlightenment, black people across the world have used various means to draw the line against various forms of oppression that have come their way. There was the Haitian Revolution; The Aba Women Riot; The Selma to…
The new agenda of protecting and fostering the growth of afrobeat, which has been unpopularly considered as the new sound of music, is an agenda that comes after a long time of an underrated status that has hovered over that genre of music. By the new sound of music, we are referring to afrobeat as…
One may question how possible it is to achieve certain levels of development in Africa through religious tolerance, but the fact still remains that owing to the level of diversity that exists in typical African society, the need to exercise some level of tolerance can yield changes that were quite positive. This would be explained…
There is police brutality; there is the negative effect it obviously has; but are you aware of the dark side of police brutality which most people tend to overlook and rather focus on the political, and social effect it poses? In this post, we shall be discussing the dark side of police brutality that the…
It is no news that in recent times citizens of some states in Africa have taken to the streets in protest against certain public policy that is not favorable to them. There is the case in Mali of protests which ended in the police shooting protesters, and there is the recent series of protests held…
Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Good luck Ebele Jonathan, while citing the need to combat terrorism and violence in Africa and the black community as a whole, in his book titled “My Transition Hours” stated that the best weapon against terrorism and violence was formal education. The importance of education in the fight against violence…
Tyranny in Africa exists primarily as an effect of bad government, the recent case being the massive human rights violation, and military brutality being carried out in the African state of Zimbabwe. The internet woke up to a global trend of #ZimbabweLivesMatter which cites the massive acts of tyranny being carried out by the government…
Most young black people fail to make good career choices for themselves, with most of them focused on either pursuing a career in hip hop as an artiste or playing basketball or any other form of entertainment or sports venture that has become more of a stereotype for black people. Now do not get me…
We always look to our skin color or our ancestry the very instant we perceive any form of social injustice as a reason why we suffer such injustice, but today, we should be looking beyond our skin color; beyond our ancestry; all the way to an action known as Black on Black crimes. Black on…
The responsibility of raising a child, according to African ideology, does not rest on the parents alone, but also the whole community, which is why black parenting and the process of caring for the mental and emotional state of black children and individuals within the community does not lie solely with the parents, rather with…