The practice of skin bleaching has plagued both the black and brown communities, it is without a doubt, a product of colorism. Colorism, the inter and intra-prejudice on the basis of skin shade is also the result of racism. Throughout this article, I explore the popular discourse that colorism and…

The relationship between politics and religion is both dialectical and interactive as each shapes and influences the other. The leaderships of President Dawda Jawara (1970–1994) and Yayah Jammeh (1996–2017) consecutively and separately model how politicians use religion to their own political gain — though, the Jawara regime and Jammeh regime…

In Loving Memory of Stephen Lawrence. September 13th, 1974 — April 22nd, 1993. This dissertation was submitted in May 2020 as part of my final year mark. Upon being marked in July 2020, I eventually shared this piece of work with Stuart Lawrence (the younger brother of Stephen) who recently…

After the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) delivered Namibia from their own national liberation struggle against South Africa’s apartheid in 1990, SWAPO rose to power as the ruling political party in the country. The citizens of Namibia were promised a democratic future instilled with equality, instead, they were met…

Britain, as a nation has built its identity through the domination of colonial subjects. This nation found its identity by excluding women of colour from the privileges of femininity by calling them derogatory terms like “bloody wogs”. This week, I explore why black women living in 1960s — 1980s Britain…

Hello and a very warm Happy New Year’s to you all! I hope you all entered the year safely and more importantly, I hope that 2021 provides each of us with the tools to navigate this next year and our new norm during a pandemic. So, two weeks ago, I…

Hello all! For my first article in my new ‘rebrand’, I wanted to write and share a piece that is personal to me. Here is a quick debrief, I was born in Sierra Leone amidst the civil war, which lasted from March 1991 until January 2002. Like many African conflicts…

What power, pride and self confidence, can we, as black people seek to derive from a system of education, such as Britain’s, that has been designed by the white man? Diasporic conversations on the return to Africa are generically centered on how we need to go back to our previously…

Thesis In 1957, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African state to gain independence from European colonisation in the twentieth century. This emancipation paved the way for many other once colonised African states over the next four decades. Celebrations for this newfound hope of development were limited as it was soon revealed…