White Supremacy In South Africa, And The African Girls Who Are Rejecting It

AFRICANGLOBE – There’s been an outpouring of support for the Black girls at Pretoria Girls High School, but there’s also been bafflement and more discrimination. It’s just a school policy to straighten their hair, some have argued, but it’s more than that: it is the protection of white standards at the expense of Black identity.School rules and codes of conduct exist to instill discipline, so that youngsters aren’t as boisterous as they’d hope to be. There’s the sound of the bell, the uniforms, and lines of students snaking their way to assembly. It’s all very structured, but what happens when those rules suppress a student’s identity?

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White Supremacy In South Africa, And The African Girls Who Are Rejecting It

AFRICAN GLOBE – There’s been an outpouring of support for the Black girls at Pretoria Girls High School, but there’s also been bafflement and more discrimination. It’s just a school policy to straighten their hair, some have argued, but it’s more than that: it is the protection of white standards at the expense of Black identity. School rules and codes of conduct exist to instill discipline, so that youngsters aren’t as boisterous as they’d hope to be. There’s the sound of the bell, the uniforms, and lines of students snaking their way to assembly. It’s all very structured, but what happens when those rules suppress a student’s identity?

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Nigerian World Scrabble Champion Denied Visa By French Embassy

AFRICANGLOBE – The French embassy in Nigeria reportedly denied the reigning World Scrabble Champion Wellington Jighere a travel visa to the World Championship at the Grand Palais in Lille, France. On Friday, Jighere took to his Facebook page to announce that he — as well as the rest of Nigerian scrabble team — had been denied French visas even after they had fulfilled all necessary visa requirements.

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Obama Destruction of Libya

Libya once was a proud nation that rejected US military presence on the continent, seeing it as an obstacle to Pan-African unity. With the country destroyed, the US has been able to further expand militarily all over the continent. And it has been President Obama, not George W. Bush, who has presided over the rapid Neo-colonization of Africa.




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