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Poem: To the African Child
Find your voice and raise it loud so they hear your accent and broken English Don’t be drowned out by stereotypes or limitations Embrace your name in all of its multi-syllabic glory Love your textures...
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My Letter to the Liberian Government: Privatizing Public Primary Schools Will Be a HUGE Mistake!
After a failed attempt to contact the Liberian government, Olympia Jarboe, a concerned and passionate “daughter of Liberia” decided to share her open letter to the government regarding...
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‘Beasts of No Nation’ Holds Up Accurate Mirror to One Reality in Africa
Recently, I watched the recent Netflix release of “Beasts of No Nation” an African civil war film, based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, starring Idris Elba and Abraham Attah. I thought the...
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In Face of Police Brutality, It’s High Time for Africans & African Americans To Unite
Recent news stories about police brutality and race politics have got me considering whether the African experience is different from the African-American experience in America. Is there a difference?...
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It’s High Time Africans Expand Their Attention Spans Beyond Their Respective Countries
In light of Nigeria’s highly sensitive and publicized presidential elections, I attempted to have a conversation with a fellow West African, and the response I got was startling: As a non-Nigerian...
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Africans Are Still Teaching Colonialist Education to Our Youth
The 1960s were a major period of change on the African continent as many countries began to declare independence from their European colonial masters. African countries asserted their sovereignty and sought...
