Brigitte Sesu Tilley-Gyado, a Nigerian musician and author wrote a wonderful article called The Systematic “Whorification” of the Young African Woman. She writes: “After all, the contemporary media is partly responsible. Young women are the overwhelming majority of sexualized images in the media, fashion, music and porn industries. Yet where are the celebrated young African [...]
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The Systematic “Whorification” Of The Young African Woman
8.00pm. January.2012. Lagos. Nigeria. I decide to get down from the car and walk to the gate of the pizza restaurant. I am brusquely detained by the exterior gate by security guards. “Stop there. What are you looking for here?” the short guard sneered, contorting his face and scrutinising me up and down. “Is [...]
Africa’s Central Role in the Development of World Civilisation
A few weeks ago, I read an exceptional book by Thomas C. Oden titled, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, which given the central role that Christianity played in the development of Western civilisation for the majority of the centuries before the Age of Enlightenment, revealed the critical role that African thinking and African writers [...]
The Unlikely Candidate
Mark Kalkwarf’s photograph of the unlikely tattoo candidate demonstrates that there is more to a person than what meets the eye. And often much more inside than we think is there. Facades and fronts are as pervasive as misguided underestimations of our value and potential. This person fits into this mould for this unreasonable reason, [...]
