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• September 14, 2020

  The Internet as Fact: Virality on WhatsApp and the Urgent Need for Digital Literacy in Africa

  While African countries have leapfrogged development and have made significant gains in technology, digital literacy has not caught up with these gains.
• August 27, 2020

  En Garde

  I am told that America is the land of the free Home of the brave That free speech abounds That constitutional rights are upheld But when I turn on my TV I see my brothers and sisters being killed My kinfolk, of Black skin, murdered The police killing us Guns shooting us The law being…
• August 20, 2020

  Yéwándé

  My father’s wives sneer at me  They tell me I have two left legs  That marriage will never come my way  That love will not find its way to me  That I was born when the moon hid from the world  That year when famine ravaged the village and the earth rejected crops That my…
• June 15, 2020

  Conceptualizing Blackness: You’re African, not Black: The Politics of Identity in America

  Being Black in America is living with the constant awareness that you can die for simply existing.
• September 25, 2019

  Culture and Sufferhead Politics

  It is not our culture for men to cook.  Taking care of children is the role of women- it is our culture. 
• March 8, 2019

  Women’s Rights are Human Rights

  Hello Everyone, Happy International Women’s Day! Today is International Women’s Day and social media has been inundated with posts celebrating women’s strength, highlighting the contributions of women to society and the need for increased opportunities for women. Various countries and organizations have planned out various events to celebrate this day. While these celebrations are important…