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The African matriarcal tradition
We grow up in countries within the continent and almost everywhere we see women regularly beaten. Their word is devalued, their opinions are belittled. They are constantly judged, tirelessly defined – regardless of their success in society – by the fact to be married or not. They do not receive inheritance and are most likely…
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10 Black Scholars Who Debunked Eurocentric Propaganda
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop Senegalese-born Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) received his doctorate degree from the University of Paris and was a brilliant historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician and one of the most prominent and proficient Black scholars in the history of African civilization. Contrary to the long-standing European myth of a Caucasian Egypt, Diop’s studies into origins…
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Dr Boyce Watkins: The 8 Rules of Economic Self-Defense
In case you’ve never noticed, black people are vulnerable. Much of this vulnerability is linked to our financial condition. Many of us work for people we hate, do things we don’t want to do, and feel stuck because we are not where we want to be economically. I’ve been a finance professor for the last…
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Statistically speaking, black people in Germany don’t exist
Thanks to the refugee crisis, race and immigration have played prominently in Germany’s upcoming election. Immigration is the top issue for Germans voting in the federal race on Sept. 24. Germany’s interior minister has a 10-point proposal for defining national identity, including that “we don’t do burqa.” The far right’s campaign posters boast headlines like: “Burqas? We like bikinis,”; “New Germans?…
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Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: How to Get to Talks?
After twenty months of clashes, the government and the separatists are both refusing to give ground. Both sides must explore compromise solutions aimed at a level of regional autonomy somewhere between the secession the separatists yearn for and the fake decentralisation proposed by Yaoundé. What’s new? The conflict in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon is deadlocked.…