I was told to ‘Respect myself’ because I asked too many questions. — I once happened to come across a Ted talk given by someone who was invited to go on a business sales trip to an African country. The speaker at first kindly passed on the trip. She said that she didn’t want to spend an entire week in a boardroom tussling…

Comoros is an African island country located in East Africa — Comoros is an independent country made up of three islands, a fourth island is being ruled by France. These islands are off the coast of Mozambique, near Madagascar. Comoros was given the nickname of the ‘perfumed islands’ because of fragrant plant life as well as beautiful scenery. The country has…

Cameroon PM has forced the Minister of Health to reverse ban — Just recently I wrote of the ban on skin bleaching products that was to take affect in Cameroon. Dr Manaouda Malachie the Minister of health in Cameroon who received death threats for placing the ban on skin bleaching products has reversed his decision. …

There are many countries that do nothing for their homeless population here is a story of those who are homeless in Ghana In many countries, there are no services to provide assistance for society's most impoverished people. Even the mentality of many is that poverty is something each individual causes…

Also stop saying you’re depressed when you’re sad — Sad is an emotion, that is temporary, it’ll pass. Learn the difference between being sad and suffering from depression. There are emotions and then there are chemical imbalances in the brain, they’re often genetically passed down from parent to child. People can’t just ‘shake it off!’ Sad: /sad/ adjective 1…

This is the logic of a Medium writer that blocked me — Her entire rant consisted of ‘Everyone was racist back then because it was normal!’ Wait what? So owning slaves wasn’t a bad thing because everyone was doing it. This is the same narrative I’ve heard from White teachers teaching about enslaved Africans in America. One teacher said to a Black…

A 14 year old boy died shortly after being caned by his teacher — Caning (beating) children in school is legal in many African countries. Kenya however had outlawed the practice in 2010. In 2021 Fred Matiang’i (Minister of Education) said that caning should be reinstated within the educational system because Kenyan students were behaving badly. Interior CS Fred Matiang’i said it would be…

Walk with me before you get into your emotions — According to the aide, when the group came to discussing immigration from Africa, Trump asked why America would want immigrants from “all these shithole countries” and that the U.S. should have more people coming in from places like Norway. “Why do we need more Haitians, take them out,” he said…

If you can ignore extreme hatred, colorism and corruption go for it — Because you’re Black you think, oh well Africa is the place for me to be so you make the leap. There are some African countries not as colorist or corrupt as Ghana. You will have to learn to ignore a lot in Ghana, first thing that is extremely hard to…