by Teakisi | Aug 14, 2019 | Culture, Current Affairs, Education, Empowerment, Hair & Beauty
By Eunice Aber Once again, Queen Bey drops a number that does not just turn ears, but hearts too. And it comes at an opportune time for me. Of late, I realised discrimination was far more complicated than black and white, or woman and man. I have since resigned to the...
by Teakisi | Apr 20, 2017 | Culture, Empowerment, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections, Travel
By Stella Demasus I never had any issues with my being African, until I started living in the United States of America. That was when I realized that my kind of “African” is different. I’m not talking about racism between just white and black, but also...
by Salha Kaitesi | Jan 12, 2016 | Business, Culture, Hair & Beauty
Jennifer Blaine, the young founder and entrepreneur behind the startup company ToyiToyi Toys, which designs and manufactures a range of darker skinned dolls in South Africa, spoke with ElleAfrique about how the shortage of black representation in the worldwide toy...
by Teakisi | Dec 24, 2015 | Culture, Hair & Beauty
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...