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After the 5-week series on what colonization to our psyche, we need some fun. There’s this expression we used to say as kids in Cameroon, “All work no play makes Jack a dull boy!” The cool thing about the video below is that it is African inspired and created. The...

For Black history month, we’ve been talking about the effects of colonization on Black people. You can read all four posts here. Although it’s the last day of February, we don’t have to stop here, let’s continue the conversation with friends and family. Since we’ve talked about the problem, it...

Between the years of 1997 to 2002, I went to an all-girls boarding school in Cameroon made up of 98% black girls, I mean brown-skinned-Wakanda-looking African girls. We had a few girls of mixed raced (a white and a black parent) similar complexion to Trevor Noah, hence the 98% instead...

Have you heard of the Bobo doll experiment? When kids of various races and ethnicities were asked which doll was the nice or pretty doll versus the bad or ugly doll, most chose the good qualities for the white doll and the bad qualities for the black doll. This was...