How do I know your palate is colonised you ask? Maybe because you relish the smell of stinky cheese and turn your nose up at the fragrance of iru...
Is Colonisation still relevant when discussing contemporary African issues?
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July 31, 2021
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2ufuw
A sentiment that I have found is shared amongst many Nigerians is the idea that we spend too much time talking about colonisation and that we overemphasise its effects...
Tribalism – The enduring legacy of Colonialism.
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July 30, 2021
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2ufuw
Africa today conjures negative images of strife, economic backwardness, low life expectancy, illiteracy etc. More recently, the wave of ethnic conflicts across the continent, but mostly within states has...
Modernising the ‘primitive African’: The influence of colonialism on African dressing
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July 28, 2021
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2ufuw
“Europe created the concept of savageness and barbarism as antithesis to its modernity and civilisation. Henceforth, Europe was to represent the modern model and the rest was to represent...
The Issue of Development
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July 28, 2021
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2ufuw
THE STATE OF AFRICA: ARE WE TO BLAME? There has always been difficulty when it comes to explaining the current state of many African countries that are struggling to...
Neo – Colonialism: Imperialism, Class conflicts and #ENDBADGOVERNMENT
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July 18, 2021
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2ufuw
“All are our crops; but we get from others To middleman those are not from others. Yet they show them our jam-packed granary. Faces of our decrepit doctors, Inspiration...
Decolonising the mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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July 14, 2021
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2ufuw
In the book, ‘Decolonising the Mind’, N wu Thiong’o takes a different approach in discussing the post-colonial state, by noting that many African writers fail to see the colonial...
Theo’s Commentary on All About Love by Bell Hooks
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June 30, 2021
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2ufuw
Our generation is too scared to speak on love, to confront it and most importantly, to choose it. With an earth shattering heartbreak in my late teens, and the...
Theo’s Commentary on Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. Kelley
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June 30, 2021
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2ufuw
“But the dream of exodus still lives in those of us not satisfied with the world as we know it.” There comes an age when society dictates to you,...