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missnaturale: Purple hair xx

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:15:20 -0400

Purple hair xx

Daniel's Life: I’m terrified. I really am. In six days I am leaving to travel across...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:06:23 -0400

Daniel's Life: I’m terrified. I really am. In six days I am leaving to travel across...:

mrrepzion:

I’m terrified. I really am. In six days I am leaving to travel across the world to Africa. It is heavily dominated by Islam. I will be one hour away from the sahara desert. All I know is that I will be helping a family who recently had their child die due lack of food, water, and shelter. I won’t…

OP is terrified because he knows nothing about Islam other than what he hears on the television. If I were the family you plan I visiting I would terrified because a child of the colonizers and imperialists was going to visit me. His pure ignorance should be enough to humble him but it is not. He doesn’t know much about anything besides the little box he grew up in.

I am disgusted.

There are so many things wrong with this post to be honest!
First of all good for you, you get to see the world and all. But why do you feel the need to use to word ‘dominated’? Africa has embraced Islam, Africans practice Islam but they certainly have not been dominated by Islam!
I can’t wrap my head around how your presence in this family’s household will benefit them in any way. You mentioned their child just died of hunger, this indicates that food is not readily available. Just know that your presence there is COMPLETELY USELESS unless you plan on investing in their farms and businesses.
That hole or hut that you are planning on helping them dig won’t do shit for them. Africa has the worlds most youthful population so sit your ass down we don’t need your dirty flimsy labour.

"There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:57:06 -0400

“There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems.”

- Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”

(via cammyyy)

I think about her now,Zaria.Mysterious at nightCrackling with fearExcitementOf the things unknown I...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:53:24 -0400

I think about her now,
Zaria.
Mysterious at night
Crackling with fear
Excitement
Of the things unknown

I think about her now,
Zaria.
Splendid at eid
Pompous, radiant.
Stained with henna’ed footprints,
Like a lover smeared with lipstick.

I think about her now,
She inhibits my mind.
Her greying walls,
Refuse to surrender.

A lifetime of fighting,
Unfurls before her eyes.
Her own children.
Tearing at her soul,
Rupturing her core.
Brothers,
Don’t you think of her too?

-Hajara Iyal

"The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:33:27 -0400

“The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who don’t truly submit to God.”

- Khalid Latif (via sunlitmoonbeam)

For The Siblings Who Have Grown Apart

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:31:00 -0400

I think of my brother and I think I should call him. I thought he would grow as tall as the tree in our yard but he is only human. he asks about school and I say it is fine. I do not know what else to say. I am scared to say something but I hate the silence. I think of the way he used to make me sweet lemon tea. my throat starts to hurt so I pretend I have no service. I cut the phone.

I feel like I am in many places at once and yet nowhere. I wish Ramadan would hasten, I need...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:56:19 -0400

I feel like I am in many places at once and yet nowhere. I wish Ramadan would hasten, I need redemption. I hunger for it. This is what this place does to me. It makes want things I shouldn’t. Things I have no right to crave.

africaisdonesuffering: The Other Way of Knowing What kind of...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:04:49 -0400

africaisdonesuffering:

The Other Way of Knowing

What kind of education are you receiving?

I have supposedly received the best kind of Education my parents could get for me. Growing up in Nigeria I was enrolled in crèche from the age of about two or three. My parents wasted no time in ensuring that I was integrated into the modern world as soon as possible. I was taken to private schools where the staff had come top of their class, schools that prided themselves on western models and curriculums.

Now, I’ve been to a number of schools and one thing that strikes me is how children are being taught in the exact same way. By this I mean that all over the world we have the same hierarchy of subjects.

MATHS AND SCIENCES

LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES

ARTS AND MUSIC

Our educational system came into existence to feed the needs of industrialisation. That was its primary purpose, therefore it only made sense for the subjects of upmost importance to be the ones that would be most likely to get you into the industry. The more knowledge you had of maths and the sciences the more valuable you were to the economy. The more you geared towards the arts the less exploitable you were.

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OMG!! 😳😂 (at London)

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:50:22 -0400

OMG!! 😳😂 (at London)

Au Naturale: NATURAL CHICA - HAFSAH

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:47:44 -0400

Au Naturale: NATURAL CHICA - HAFSAH:

missnaturale:

OK guys, so I’ve featured a number of people on my blog and they’re all really amazing but of course I have to bring in a family member eventually LOL . So this here is my little sister. She’s been natural longer than I have and here’s what she had to say;

MN: How long have you been…

Getting my sweat on...FAIL!

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:15:01 -0400

Apr 11, 2013 | Getting my sweat on…FAIL! by on Keek.com

mehreenkasana: Your favorite Nobel Peace prize winning...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:22:13 -0400

mehreenkasana:

Your favorite Nobel Peace prize winning president. The same guy who is a ‘lesser evil’ to you but not to the thousands of Pakistanis who were never offered a fair trial before or after being bombed to pieces. Yay, Democrats. Yay, liberals.

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:18:29 -0400

missnaturale: Rise Africa!

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:38:00 -0400

missnaturale:

Rise Africa!

thepeoplesrecord: Got this in my email today: Dear...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:57:15 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Got this in my email today:

Dear friends,

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/maasai_fb_dm_3/?bNDofcb&v=23793

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists - a critical source of national income - and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

Sources:

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo

The Endorois people (also in Kenya) were removed from their sacred land in the 1970s under similar circumstances & for similar motives (the establishment of parks for colonial tourists.)

"Never compare, because all comparison is foolish. Everybody is just like himself. What is the point..."

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:51:20 -0400

““Never compare, because all comparison is foolish. Everybody is just like himself. What is the point of comparing? Who are you to compare? And who are you to fix a criterion—to decide who is learned and who is not learned? Who are you to make a criterion who is beautiful and who is not beautiful? Who are you? Why should you judge?””

- Osho (via imaan-daar)

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:50:35 -0400

"Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain..."

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:58:11 -0400

“Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain things or not going certain places or not acting in a certain way. That line of thinking presumes that you are incapable of control. That you are so base and uncivilized that it takes extraordinary effort for you to walk down the street without raping someone. That you require certain dress code be maintained, that certain behaviors be employed so that maybe today, just maybe, you won’t rape someone. It presumes that your natural state is a rapist.”

- (via misanthropically)

My thinking exactly! That assumption indicates I am an animal without moral direction everyday!

(via fitwald) I’ve reblogged this before, but I’ll reblog it again. (via maryxsquattins)

HOW TO WRITE ABOUT AFRICA

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:33:57 -0400

http://www.granta.com/Archive/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1

http://thathausagirl.tumblr.com/books

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:19:37 -0400

Updated my blog an added a link for books I’ve read.