Colorism: The Light Skin Paradox
Article by Fatoumanta B. Diallo I recently watched some excerpts from “Light Girls”, a documentary on the Oprah Winfrey Network about the colorism that exists among African-Americans in the United States. This time, though, it was presented from the perspective of...Don’t Laugh At My Shaved Head! – Part One
By Diana Awino The year was 2012. A youthful Diana, fresh from graduation, packed her bags and was on the next bus to Northern Uganda to practice the career that she had taken slightly over two decades to build. Northern Uganda, though in recovery, still exhibited...Short Hair Diaries
By Vivienne Amijee African hair is one of the best textured hair one can have even though I never thought of it that way until recently when I decided to cut my hair and keep it natural. I was the weave type of girl, I liked my weaves long and with a fringe because I...Read moreAs I watch you emerge from the Nile of folklore and fairy tale alike, droplets of your coconut flavored elixir flow down your firm body, glistening in the African sun. Its glow upon your chocolate coating is strikingly blinding, but I find your eyes at last. Gazing into them, they accentuate the brightness in your background with a luminescent radiance of gold.
The pureness of your skin resembles that of rum cream; sweetly intoxicating and desirably smooth. With garments soaked from your mystical river bath, it excites me to see the mango-shaped outline of your dark supple breasts. Your blackberries harden to a cool morning breeze, arousing my senses as I faint a little more.
Our voodoo romance begins as you jolt your head backwards and make that orgasmic moan. The bongo drums roll and music plays, while your dance becomes a synchronous harmony to the rhythm and beat of the jungle.
Your delectable booty starts to pulsate and quiver. It tugs on my heart strings to see you shaking those delicious muffin cheeks, and I understand why we’re a match made in heaven. While I continue to blame my giant mechanical ass for a reason of loneliness, in your boogie-woogie, I realize you’re the salt fish in my ackee.
It saddens me, when you feel unattractive because of the cruel standards this world may have. I get broken-hearted every time you feel the need to straighten your uniquely beautiful curls. If only you knew how gorgeous your kinky hair is. You don’t even need bling when your exotic nature will always shine through.
The soft roundness of your nose makes for the best Eskimo kisses, but I yearn for something more as my eyes fall upon your juicy lips. I long for a taste of your sugarcane kiss, my enchanted Nubian princess. I love the adorable way you suck your pearly white teeth.
And in the gap between them is a window that leads to a perfect blackness of outer space, where every mysterious wonder of the universe remains. The things I know not of are frightening, but in our perpetual stare, it reminds me that romance is a surrender to the unknown and risk. The colour contrast of white satin sheets upon your ebony silk is an angelic masterpiece. Hand-in-hand, I enter your black hole as we make love forevermore…
Dear Black Women, you might think the only reason I want you is because your aging never shows. You might even think it’s your sparkle-glossy fingernails, for every man needs a wife who knows to give an amazing scratch of back. But no.
I want to ask you to marry me because our booties are meant to be. I want to defy the deceptions of the world and reveal your uncompromised splendour. I want to make you laugh and cry and dream of beautiful things.
Be mine, my darling breadfruit, yo.
Yours,
Grand Master Ricksta