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[WeTour] San Basilio de Palenque, the first free town in the Americas founded by runaway slaves
Few people know about San Basilio de Palenque, the first freed slaves town in the Americas. But the town was declared a ‘Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity’ by...
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Twitter’s bumbum and lookatmybreasts hashtags: are women playing the double standard card?
Two trending hashtags on Twitter have got people raising their eyebrows again. The hashtags, #bumbumtwitter and #bigbreasttwitter feature women flaunting their “assets”, with many tying...
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How the Dashiki brought a generation of Africans and African Americans together
Before Black Panther brought young Africans on the continent and the Diaspora together, there was a fashion movement that did likewise, and helped lay the ground for the #Africarising movement that has...
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‘Sex for grades’ victim gets slammed in Nigeria for exposing university professor
Monica Osagie may have thought she was empowering other women and doing the right thing when ‘she shared her sex for grades’ story with CNN but instead of praise and consolation, a few Africans...
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African traditions and customs that still abuse women
Many people think that traditional African customs that subject women to inhumane treatments no longer exist. They believe that these practices are long gone. But a recent BBC documentary on trokosi, the...
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Who is Stacey Abrams and what will her historic election as the first female black governor mean?
Stacey Abrams, 44, just won the Democratic nomination for the state of Georgia. Abrams is the first-ever black female nominee for governor in the U.S. If elected in the mid-term elections this November,...
