Powerful, Great!!!

Now, I hope no-one will argue that African-Americans have no complex based on (dark vis-à-vis light) skin colour or that skin-BLEACHING does not exists among America's blacks, as I remember someone replied to me when I posted that piece about the skin-bleaching complex barely 3 months ago. One thing I see is that black people’s problems are both universal and partly self-caused based on society, the society we all build to live in, especially at the nuclear family level, on a social scale. In Afrika, it isn’t any different and—especially in the towns/cities—we’ll find the same problems abound, the same complexes, girls and boys mimicking African-Americans ... When I visited Afrika this year, I noticed that there’s now a BIG cultural shift among teenagers—(at least in my country)—due to the so-called MTV-Base, if I remember that name correctly, or also called “MTV Africa” airing from South Africa. Most homes can now even access MTV America and MTV Europe, and there’s so much invisible psycho-poison been spewed in the air by these commercial stations that most people there cannot even see ... In general, people in the Diaspora always talk about Arika so romantically, Afrikan “culture”, “values”, Afrika this & that etc but I say, hey, go there and see for yourself how lost the people there are!

I am sure this same “loss of self/mind” can be reflected in certain Afrikans one meets abroad/overseas! Being in constant self-denial won’t help anyone of us, but will kill us all slowly but surely!

Just my few comments & observations.

Thanx for that link!