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…
Namibian President Hage Geingob has rejected Germany’s offer to compensate the southern African nation for colonial-era mass killings. Geingob said in a statement on Tuesday that Berlin’s offer of $11.7 million was “not acceptable.” During the colonial era between 1904 and 1908 the German Empire killed as many as 80,000 Herero and Nama people in…
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…
The skepticism that comes from most black people towards the system of formal education is not because that they do not understand the need for formal education, it is solely because of the flaws in the system, which not only scares most blacks people but brings up the skepticism of its existence. These flaws make…
The 19th of June every year marks, historically, the day the last remaining slaves were emancipated from the Confederacy. On a general note, this day (popularly known as Juneteenth) also creates awareness for the celebration of the culture and heritage of the African American society, whose culture is not entirely independent from the African culture…