The playbook often used the European colonial governments to maintain a strong grip on their power over their colonies typically involved grouping communities of differing ethnic backgrounds together in one country and pinning them against each other. Therefore rather than the different ethnic communities uniting together to oust the...
One of the strangest aspects of American culture that I never quite understood growing up was seeing Black people and Coloured people being grouped together under the blanket term of “Black.” Growing up in Africa, we always make the distinction between the two races; there are Black people and...
While much of the developed world is currently facing population collapse due to the low fertility rates among their citizens, Africa is experiencing an ever-growing population. Africa is already the youngest continent in the world, and it is set to maintain that title as more and more babies are...
One of the strangest pieces of news content I ever came across was of Tunisia’s president Kais Saied, when he stated that there is a “plot to change the demographics of Tunisia and make it African.” This was during an address regarding the numbers of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa...
With various wars taking place around the continent, a lack of unity between African nations, stifling economic growth and many more issues faced by the continent as a whole. It’s easy to begin questioning what happened to pan-Africanism? Pan-Africanism is the belief that due to the shared history of Africans,...
Recently photos of a man, from Northern Nigeria, married to multiple wives went viral online. The size of the man's family mangaed to catch the interest of many poeple online. In the first photo you can see him seated in the middle of his four wives. While the second...
During Africa’s colonial period, indigenous languages had been suppressed all over the continent in favour of the language of the colonizing power. In the modern day, that legacy has meant that many of Africa’s indigenous languages still are at risk of extinction. Unfortunately, I am a part of the cohort...
A constant point of contention between Western nations and African nations has reared its ugly head again after the Ghanaian parliament passed a new anti-LGBTQ bill. This creates a dilemma for western nations who wish to push back against such anti-LGBTQ measures within Africa. However, not so much to...