In 2005 I moved to DC to go to grad school for African studies at Howard University. In the two years of course work, one of the things that I remember vividly are all of my professors, i repeat all of my professors who happened to each be from a country in Africa saying thatContinue reading “What I Think Wednesday:Nigerian Weddings and the Nigerian Economy: Can one save the other?”
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“Just being white, you will win!”
This morning I woke up to a text from my brother with an artice attached where the headline read exactly what the title of this blog post reads. It was written by Wilfred Chan at CNN and covered a Thai beauty ad promoting a pill that prohibits the production of melanin, a bleaching cream inContinue reading ““Just being white, you will win!””
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