Articles by: This Is Africa

Skin-lightening/bleaching is a problem, but it’s only really a sign of much deeper inter-related issues, namely, self-hatred, a race-based identity crisis, and the internalisation of western-created cultural ideas that are inimical to the mental health…

Every time I travel outside of Africa, I become acclimatized to the comforts, or perhaps the conformities of living in a more “organized” society. Knowing the exact time the train will arrive, the weekly, daily and hourly weather forecasts – the red me…

http://content.omroep.nl/ghettoradio/musicblog/sister_deborah_uncle_obama.mp3DOWNLOAD Uncle ObamaUncle Obama, I like the size of your banana,Can I give it to my “monkey”,It will be so very happy.Probably the most suggestively amusing song we’ve heard s…

A part of colonialism was the imposition of the European way of life on Africans, the idea being to get Africans to replace their culture (rituals, habits, etc.) with what the colonizers saw as the more “superior” rituals, habits, pastimes. The French …

If the name Bracket doesn’t sound familiar, the title of one of their tracks probably does: Yori Yori. That’s the track that brought the Nigerian duo (Nwachukwu Ozioko, aka Vast, and Ali Obumneme, aka Smash) to the international limelight in 2009. Leas…

If someone were to describe a song to us as a moving piece of music, we probably wouldn’t expect said song to be from a hip hop artist. But that’s how we’d describe Swahili Shakespeare with its minimal classical music backing. The track is by Kenyan ra…