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Culture of The Biher-Tigrinya Ethnic group who are indigenous to Eritrea

19 Comments
2024/11/08
16:45 UTC

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I am an archivist in USA, and I found this in my former state governor’s papers. Neocolonialism at the smallest levels of our government

5 Comments
2024/11/08
16:40 UTC

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Would you like the idea of making a song contest for African countries, similar to Eurovision?

To be honest, it would be really cool if it happens

21 Comments
2024/11/08
13:20 UTC

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Another Day

Checked into a hotel in Harrismith, South Africa. Heard the neighor lady refer to me as boney, while I was applying face cream at the window. Heard the neighbor guy say "plus he's a kroes kop" while organizing my hair. I'm mixed race, the neighbor next to them is like yeah he's a pavement special. Absolutely no one has stuck up for me.

3 Comments
2024/11/08
11:46 UTC

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France 🇫🇷 Modern Day Slavery

Why is the economy of French West African countries controlled by France?

15 Comments
2024/11/08
09:40 UTC

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How Mobutu Conquered Congo | The Complex History of the Leopard of Zaire

1 Comment
2024/11/07
06:06 UTC

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Have you ever watched King Solomon's Mines?

Why is there a guy (Mbopa) speaking in Kiswahili when he's supposed to be South African? I have never cringed so hard!

Do they really think all our languages are interchangeable?

7 Comments
2024/11/06
18:51 UTC

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Unpopular opinion: Africa's biggest problems are the central banks

Many countries even outside of Africa have shitty leaders. The leadership problems are everywhere not just in Africa. Many countries seem to elect the most unqualified *ssholes. African central banks however are inept in their undertaking, compared to the rest of the world. In my country Kenya, for instance, our central bank just mostly copies what the US fed bank is doing. They hike credit rates, ours do too, they lower, ours lower, quantitative easing, we copy etc. Fixing the financial landscape should be our priority as Africans and this means we should closely scrutinise actions of our respective central banks. Good leaders are just going to be good for optics and build some infrastructure here and there. A good central bank will enable growth, entrepreneurship and business.

20 Comments
2024/11/06
16:37 UTC

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Kenya's national dish

6 Comments
2024/11/04
23:25 UTC

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How socially liberal or conservative is your country ?

Hey guys I'd like to know how socially liberal or conservative the country you live in is, in terms of my nation South Africa it usually depends on whether an area is urban or rural and to a lesser extent it can depend on ethnicity (with some ethnicities like some rural Afrikaners and some Indian Muslims said to be very conservative)

As I live in an urban area (black township) but with family living in a rural area I think I can provide some info. First off the dress codes are very relaxed. A person can dress any way they feel like whether it be a summer dress or bum shorts this seems to be shared by most South Africans who live in urban areas (I went to a Multi-racial high school and the Muslim female students who were mostly Indian dressed no different to other students even during casual day). In the rural areas the dress code is also relaxed but there are some clothes that would be considered "provocative " like say bum shorts or a see-through dress, you can wear a knee or thigh length skirt but something like the two clothes I mentioned before would be seen as being in bad taste (also no would beat you up for dressing in that way you'd just get stared at in a judging way by mostly old women). Members of the LGBT community are free and are a visible part of the community, sure there are some people who view them as weird and become uncomfortable when a gay or lesbian person is in their presence but most people tolerate them and there isn't any violence against them. In the rural areas the number of people who view the LGBT community as being against the norm is larger but even there no one harms them nor are they judged (in fact I personally know three lesbians from the village where my family lives). In terms of gender roles it's still somewhat traditional (men are viewed as being the head of houses and the breadwinner) though there are large numbers of female-lead households and some people even have modern "50-50" type relationships. Machismo can be said to be very high which is probably the reason for the large numbers of GBV(Gender based Violence) cases though Feminism can be said to have a large following especially among the younger generation of women. In terms of being religious South Africans (especially black South Africans) can be said to be very religious though religion isn't forced on a person and if you're an athiest nothing will be done to you.

If I were to measure South African society on a scale of left being liberal and right being conservative I would put SA in the middle though skewing a little bit to the left.

27 Comments
2024/11/03
22:24 UTC

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Drew an african girl as part of my coursework on African culture

27 Comments
2024/11/03
16:03 UTC

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