Getting my hair done in Africa in my home country Cameroon has been terrible. People in Cameroon don’t play around when it comes to witchcraft.

Whenever I would get my hair done, I noticed my parents would pick up every piece of hair that fell on the floor. At the time, I didn’t understand it. I remember thinking What’s going on? I don’t see other parents doing this for their family. Why are they doing this for me?

Later I learned that it was because many people in Cameroon believe in witchcraft and my family was trying to protect me. Albinos are targeted because of harmful myths and beliefs and my parents were doing what they could to keep me safe.

I remember thinking Why would someone want to hurt me? All I do is eat play football and play video games. The lesson I took from it is the people who care about you will go out of their way to protect you. It is fucking scary and disturbing they use this shit for bullshit magic. Our lives is not a myth.

This shows how backward some Africans are still unashamedly believing in myths and superstitions that sacrificing us to some spirits will make them rich and successful. Nothing impedes progress like stupid beliefs.

We are all Africans. The skin colour may differ but we are the same. Blood doesn't differ. We have the same body parts. Same tongue, hair texture, mouth, private parts. We speak African language and eat African food. We have more in common in each other than differences. We shouldn’t have to live in fear or worry about shit like this in our own country.

I still see right-wing propagandists/dogwhistlers argue in 2026 that the demographic collapse of the Khoisan was due to a wave of Black “Bantu” militia groups who arrived at the “same time“ as the Europeans did to South Africa. 

In my last post, I heavily referenced peer-reviewed scientific research and Patric Tariq Mellet's The Lie of 1652. But because that might have been too long for some, I’m going to be FAR more direct here. I will debunk this lie using the actual facts to show the real issues currently facing South Africa.

Fact

European diseases wiped out an estimated 90% of Khoisan people in In 1713 

As the Khoisan died or fled into the interior, vast tracts of grazing land suddenly became empty. Dutch colonial cattle farmers quickly stepped in and claimed this land as "ownerless," permanently cutting off the surviving Khoisan from their livelihood. 

Fact

Bantu Southern Africans were never a unified group when they first arrived and the Bantu is simply a linguistic family, not a tribe. People who speak Bantu related languages themselves in southern Africa are actually partially Khoisan genetically due to over two millenniums of intermixing with Khoisan. According to anthropological linguistics the adoption of languages shows a more peaceful coalition. Southern African Nguni and Sotho Tswana people literally use clicks in their languages and I’ve also adopted many other aspects of Khoi Khoi and San related cultures. 

Calling Southern Africans invaders is highly illogical, ironic and is used to avoid accountability and to shift it to black people to justify why the Dutch were allowed to exploited and even “save” Southern Africa from those “evil just as bad as us, Bantu’s”

Fact

When people try to resist, Europeans would genocide the population. People often talk about how horrific the holocaust was but completely downplay the Namibian genocide. 

The Nama a Khoisan group who wanted independence from European exploitation had 50% all their population completely wiped out by Europeans. Similarly The Herero who were a Bantu speaking group lost 80-90% of their population wiped out by Europeans. 

Fact

The traumatized, landless Khoisan survivors of the epidemics were economically coerced into the Inboekstelsel system indentured servitude that functioned as de facto chattel slavery. Alongside enslaved Asians and East Africans, they were stripped of their ancestral click languages, names, and lineages. This erasure culminated in the Population Registration Act of 1950 where the Apartheid regime legally forced them into a generalized, non-indigenous "Coloured" box to sever their ties to the soil. 

Today, Coloured communities face the highest crime rates in the country. This is a direct result of being structurally pushed to the outskirts of wealthy areas and historically denied the tools to build generational wealth. Politically the “Bantu expansion and benevolent European” narrative has also been used to pit the Coloureds against other Africans. 

Fact

Far-right figures like Donald Trump have peddled a narrative of an ongoing "white genocide" in South Africa, even using unrelated pictures of Congolese miners to fabricate proof. The empirical data thoroughly refutes this. White South Africans roughly 7% of the population command massive, outsized economic power.The top 10% of earners (which remains disproportionately white alongside a growing Black elite) capture 66% to 70% of the national income. White individuals directly own 72% of all individually held private farmland (about 22% of the country's total surface area), and they control roughly 60% of private corporate boardrooms. Studies prove they face no higher risk of violence than any other demographic; statistically, Black and Coloured South Africans suffer far higher rates of violent death

The Structural trap

These colonial apologist and oligarch victim hood narratives actively derails necessary land reform. The 1913 Natives Land Act originally stole 93% of the fertile land for the white minority. Today, 77% of South African land remains privatized. When Nelson Mandela and the ANC took power in 1994, they prioritized national unity to avoid a civil war but left the underlying capitalist structures intact. Today, major economic reforms face immense pressure from foreign investors and Western powers (like the U.S. government) who protect the global economic status quo with the threat of sanctions, keeping South Africa the most unequal society on earth.

This is the true story of South Africa. The next time you see the "invader" or "white genocide" propaganda being spread online, call it out, report it, and fight back. Public opinion is the new battlefield, and propaganda has been used for centuries to subjugate the vulnerable. We cannot let it continue

Thank you for reading. The time to act is now. 

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im too pale to be considered African.

im too non-white to be considered European.

I can't identify w being Arab cuz they colonized us.

I can't identify w being Amazigh cause of how lost our culture is.

its just like nothing....anybody else feels similar?

For context , formula 1 ( a world championship ) has never been to Africa in the last three decades , even more . It was announced that in 2030 the sport will return to the continent in form of a Grand Prix in Rwanda , which was great news for all fans.
But they decided to call it the “African” Grand Prix , instead of the Rwandan Grand Prix ; which I find horrible to be honest . It’s that same colonialist view lingering again after centuries and treating the second biggest continent in the world as one big jungle .
Thoughts ?

I’ve been thinking about something for a while, and I’d genuinely like to hear other Black people’s perspectives on this, regardless of whether you’re African, African American, Caribbean, or part of the wider Black diaspora.

Do you think some Black people have internalised the way white-dominated societies view Black people, to the point where it affects how we treat one another?

I’ve noticed situations where a Black person in a predominantly white or otherwise foreign social group seems to behave differently when another Black person enters the room. Sometimes, it feels as though they are trying to distinguish themselves from that person, demonstrate that they’re different, or establish themselves as the more acceptable, sophisticated, or respectable Black person in the group.

I’m not suggesting that every Black person who behaves this way is self-hating, or that every difference in treatment is necessarily racism. Context, class, culture, authority, and personal experience all matter.

But I do wonder whether generations of colonialism, racial hierarchy, and the association of whiteness with power and superiority have influenced how some of us perceive ourselves and each other, even when we don’t consciously subscribe to those beliefs.

Have we sometimes learned to see Black people through the same lens that historically devalued us?

Have you witnessed anything similar in your country, workplace, community, or social circles? Do you think this is a form of internalised racism, a colonial mentality, a response to social conditioning, or something else entirely?

I’d especially love to hear perspectives from people across the African continent and the wider diaspora. I’m interested in a genuine discussion, including disagreement, rather than simply confirming what I already think.

So I thought colonialism was a thing of the past... That is until I discovered... neocolonialism! It turns out that colonizers have just rebranded themselves as investors. Instead of ships, now they send contracts, investment deals, and multinational corporations.

With neocolonialism, countries like Brazil and Indonesia get labelled 'poor and corrupt' while their vast resources get extracted to enrich other economies. I guess the fastest way to grow wealth is still to steal it from somewhere else, right?

Wait... so when someone lets their date pay for dinner, they're called a gold digger, but when big corporations literally dig gold illegally on the Amazon, it's called 'investment in emerging economies' ??

Moreover, with neocolonialism, some countries get the profits while others get the polluted rivers, destroyed forests, and irreversible environmental damage. Well, I'm not the first person to notice this pattern. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana, literally wrote the book on it in 1965, called "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism". It made the US State Department so mad they cancelled $25 million in aid to his country over it. Which, honestly, kind of proved his point for him.

His definition is still the one people use: a neocolonized country has every outward symbol of independence ( its own flag, its own government, a seat at the UN ) while its actual economy and political decisions are still being steered from outside. Sovereignty as decoration. The flag goes up, but somebody else still has the keys.

And it's not abstract. Fourteen African countries currently use a currency called the CFA franc, created by France during the colonial era and still in use today. Until 2019, member states had to keep half their foreign currency reserves in the French Treasury. Some countries in that arrangement still do. The currency is still printed in France and still pegged to the euro. Reform has been "coming soon" for five years now and counting. That's not a metaphor for neocolonialism .. that's just what it really, mechanically looks like.

Or take debt... A country needs a loan, the IMF or World Bank says: "sure" , but attaches conditions: cut public spending, privatize state industries, open your markets to foreign companies. The country technically agreed to all of it. It also technically didn't have another option. That's the whole trick of neocolonialism. It doesn't need to conquer you if it can just make sure you never had a real choice to begin with.

So the pattern repeats as you see... a country sits on cobalt, oil, gold, timber, lithium (the actual physical ingredients of the modern global economy) and somehow still ends up on the "developing nations" list (a colonial term that I'm going to talk about in another post), while the profits from those resources show up on a balance sheet somewhere in Zurich or Houston or Paris. The wealth has been extracted, refined, and sold back to us as a phone, a car battery, a bar of chocolate... repackaged so well we forget to ask where the raw material actually came from, or who got paid for it, or who's left holding the polluted river! If Colonialism took the land, Neocolonialism just figured out it's more profitable to let you keep the land... and take everything that comes out of it instead.

Cocoa: Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire are the world's largest exporters of Cocoa. They formed a coalition to harmonize their farm-gate pricing policies to optimize producer remuneration, reduce market distortions, and deepen commercial cooperation. The cocoa price that they set annually only applies to Ghanaian and Ivorian cocoa exports. Western Chocolate manufacturers are not willing to pay the fair price for it so their solution is to "run to the lab". Now they are using more palm oil in their chocolate products than Cocoa to cut costs. Palm oil is way cheaper than cocoa You might think, what's the big deal? We have plenty of palm trees on the continent and produce plenty of palm oil! Wrong, Indonesia and Malaysia are the world's largest producers of palm oil. They benefit more financially from the change in recipes than we do. The Irony is that Malaysia imported it's first palm nut seeds from Ghana in the 50s. Today, our farmers are suffering. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93jdk1yy3zo https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/Ghana-Malaysia-Two-countries-contrasting-tales-78547

https://www.cighci.org/presidents-of-cote-divoire-and-ghana-agree-to-harmonise-cocoa-farm-gate-pricing-policies/

Diamonds: Diamonds are exported by countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Namibia... Western countries have come up with "lab-grown diamonds" that are physically identical to natural diamonds. The excuse they gave is it is a measure against "blood diamonds". Not every naturally mined diamond results from war. This is affecting several African countries economically. https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/top-10-african-countries-with-the-highest-diamond-production-values/387gj5https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx2jqvwp7go

Gold: Ghana is Africa’s largest gold producer and one of the top 10 gold producers in the world. As it stands now, the market is full of mined gold and recycled gold. Is it possible for to make gold in a lab? Yes, there is a US startup Marathon Fusion that has been working on the process using mercury-197 to produce gold. Indians are also thinking about how to make "lab-grown gold". The only reason why it is not on the market is because making gold via nuclear fusion requires an immense amount of energy. Gold produced under this method remains radioactive for up to 18 years. How long until they create affordable lab-grown gold? https://www.trade.gov/market-intelligence/ghana-mining-gold-rush
https://www.idexonline.com/FullArticle?Id=51072
https://www.marathonfusion.com/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/jewellery/what-is-lab-grown-gold-how-is-it-made-and-why-it-matters/photostory/128748618.cms?picid=128748631

How do we build/strengthen our economies without leaning too heavily on our natural resources? What do you think about their need to manufacture replicas of our natural resources so that they don't have to pay the fair price?

After the genocide, Rwanda began to rebuild from the ruins by establishing the right institutions，Corruption and security issues are the least in all of Africa，However, Rwanda frequently attacks the Democratic Republic of Congo. I would like to ask my African friends, what are your thoughts on Rwanda?

The low IQ rhetoric is an agenda pushed by racist eugenics scientists like Richard Lynn, a psychologist and Tatu Vanhanen a Finnish political scientist. These claims relied on non verbal reasoning tests like Ravens progressive matrices, vocabulary assessments and basic school achievement exams but the results were misleading because these tests do not measure fixed or innate intelligence but measured formal education and familiarity with specific testing formats, even when the tests did not use words. Importantly, when they carried out the analysis, they reviewed over 100 published studies and it was later found that the bigots used selective data and ignored data from africans with high tests scores, used tiny and unrepresentative samples like testing a few dozen people from a village somewhere and claiming that it was a representation of a whole nation. Not surprising. Some of the social issues that try to argue is that the low IQ predicts violence, wealth, economic development among other outcomes so one of his conclusions was that higher intelligence = more civilized/less violent societies. But if that argument is true, then european history creates an enormous problem because they are the same people who designed auschwitz, chemical weapons, strategic bombing campaigns, 2 world wars, wars of conquest and religious warfare within europe itself and so on. I mean how intelligent does a society have to be before it stops producing extraordinary sophisticated ways of killing people. When something sounds fishy, always look it up. The aim is and has always been to create a social ladder that keeps black people and especially Africans at the bottom of the ladder and dehumanize us so as to justify the crimes committed against us.

As many may know in this sub, North Africans are EXTREMELY racist. Like epitome of racism in Africa probably. And as a (indigenous nonetheless) North African, I have internalized racism that I absolutely do not want to hold on but don't know what to do.

My first step was to get closer to my Amazigh roots as it allowed me to fully proclaim myself as African as in North African countries, people act as if they aren't part of the continent. Which is really sad because Africa is such an ethnically wealthy continent full of diversity.

(To be clear, I have never encountered a situation where I discriminated anyone based on their skin color or their ethnicity. However I would love to deconstruct that part of myself before it happens without me noticing.)

In one of her recent videos, Nathalie Yamb talked about African leaders asking for a permanent seat and veto power at the UN Security Council. She made an important point: which African country could actually represent the whole continent without creating more problems or following foreign interests?

More importantly, adding another permanent seat will not fix the United Nations. The veto system itself is unfair and outdated. Africa should not try to join a broken club. Instead, the focus should be on removing the veto power completely so that every country gets one equal vote.

What do you think?

I watched the rugby for the first time yesterday - South Africa vs All Blacks and was really surprised by something.

Why are all the fans white despite it being an African country?

Right now, Cameroon's Supreme Court is dealing with a legal fight between French billionaire Ariane de Rothschild and her former business partner, Pierre Guerrini over 1,640 square kilometers of public land.

To put that in perspective, that is bigger than London. The land was leased out so rich foreign tourists can pay 65,000 euros to shoot buffaloes and elephants for fun.

When the two partners had a fallout in late 2023, the local governor sent twenty armed state gendarmes to kick the partner out of the luxury camp. The regime essentially used national forces as personal security for a European banking dynasty.

Look at the double standard:

- Local and indigenous communities, like the Baka, have been pushed off their ancestral lands.

- If a local hunts a small animal to feed their family, they get treated like a criminal, beaten, or jailed.

- But if a wealthy foreigner pays a fortune to kill wild animals for entertainment, the state rolls out full protection.

Almost none of this money goes to regular Cameroonians. The safari profits go abroad, while the Rothschild firm works as a financial advisor to the Biya government on state debts.

Defenders always claim that trophy hunting funds conservation. In reality, it is a direct relic of the colonial concession system. African land is cordoned off, local people are criminalized on their own territory, and endangered fauna is commodified for the amusement of the global ultra-rich.

How does Cameroon, a so-called sovereign nation justify handing over 1,640 square kilometers of public land to foreign aristocrats to shoot wildlife for fun while its own citizens are shut out?

I'm hoping to hear from people living in countries or communities with traditional/conservative views on LGBTQ+ issues.

If you are openly gay or married, how have you handled coming out and setting boundaries with family, friends, and co-workers?

For those who got married (especially in places like South Africa where it’s legally recognized but societal homophobia still exists), how did your family and friends handle the wedding/marriage? Did you receive support, and how did you navigate any pushback?

I’m looking for practical advice and personal experiences on handling these situations politely while keeping healthy boundaries and safety in mind.

As its gold enriches foreign markets and IMF debt weighs heavily, the country is demanding the world reckon with the “gravest crime against humanity.”

. I’m African, and I come from an ethnic minority. Lately, I’ve been struggling with the idea that I might not end up with someone from my country and from the same ethnic group as me.
It’s not really family pressure. My family wouldn’t necessarily care if I married someone from another country or ethnicity. But somehow, I feel this internal sense of duty. Almost like I’m supposed to marry someone from my country and my ethnicity because we’re a minority, and I’m supposed to “keep it going,” have children who are from back home, and pass that part of myself on to the next generation.
I know it sounds strange when I put it that way, but it genuinely feels like something I’m supposed to accomplish for my people and my country. Not necessarily an obligation, but a responsibility.
So whenever I meet a man from another country and I genuinely like him, part of me is happy, but another part immediately thinks, “Damn… I wish he were from my country. I wish he were from my ethnic group.” Almost as if marrying someone from my own background would mean I had already checked off this huge box in my life.
And I don’t even know if I would actually be happier with someone from my own background. That’s the weird part. I just have this idea in my head that I would be fulfilling something important if I did.
I would really love to hear from other Africans, or anyone who comes from a small ethnic minority, who has experienced something similar. Especially if you’ve ever felt this desire or almost this responsibility to “multiply” and preserve your people through your children.
I know the way I’m describing it might sound harsh or weird, but I’m genuinely trying to understand where this feeling comes from and whether other people experience it too.

The Sudanese have argued Emirati complicity in the Darfur Genocide

Hola:

Soy de Guinea Ecuatorial 🇬🇶, y lo pregunto porque mi mejor amigo recientemente me confesó que es bisexual y que se siente frustrado porque aquí cosifican y cosas peores hasta el extremo a la gente LGBT, estoy muy preocupado por él y quisiera saber cómo es el panorama en los países vecinos