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Nigeria Bans White Models When Can We Start Calling Racism in Africa?

The colorism, calling Black Americans white people now banning White people from adverts in Nigeria

TB Obwoge
Racism in Africa
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6 min readAug 29, 2022

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Monday, 29 August 2022

By: TB Obwoge

Folks want to call out colonization for all the modern day ills of African societies, where and when can personal responsibility take over? Black Americans excuse bad behavior often saying it is the effects of colonization and I understand this millions understand this. Where does the human break the chains of bondage and start anew?

NOTE: African models NEED to be on African advertisements, I agree and it is very frustrating seeing NON-African, White and Asians all over African countries. Yet these should promote hiring African models. When I said something about this in Ghana I was told 2 of the lighter skin people were indeed Ghanians. ALSO NIGERIA HAS NOT BANNED SKIN BLEACHING PRODUCTS LIKE CAMEROON AND RWANDA!!

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There is a story on Medium the title reads something like ‘There are no Black People in Africa’, I’ve never read it from the title one who is light skin, Black and American living in Africa can dispute this. There hasn’t passed a day…

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Racism in Africa
Racism in Africa

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Africa has a long standing race issue, from anti-Black Racism, to Black Africans racism towards others to colorism and skin bleaching. #EndRacism

TB Obwoge
TB Obwoge

Written by TB Obwoge

Check Me Out (https://www.laceyshouse.org/ ) Writes About How About The News Mostly in African Countries | President of a Nonprofit

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