Lagos by air - Mega City #lagos #lasgidi #smwlagos #travel #passportlife #nigeria
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Running Crisscrossed On The Road Between Hell And Liberation.
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Women in Africa and the Diaspora: “Waist Beads”
The growing popularity of waist beads as a trend in the West has led them to take on their own meanings and interpretations. Now, many women wear them as a form of personal expression or as a fashion statement. Although waist beads are not limited to any race, culture, or country, it is still very important to know and understand the significance of waist beads within African cultures.
Waist beads have a long history in Africa dating back to ancient Egypt and are worn for various reasons and purposes. They are a symbol and celebration of womanhood, sexuality, femininity, fertility, healing, spirituality, body shaping, first menses, protection, seduction, and wealth amongst other things. The meaning of the colors and different shapes of beads varies with every tribe and they can be thought of as a visual dialect. Each bead, color, and shape relays a different message depending on the receiver.
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2117 It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
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The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.
- “I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via caitsmeissner)
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Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the stage of an East London dive in short-shorts and vertiginous ankle boots, working the crowd to perfection with perky between-song banter and a swagger that could fill arenas. Running through her set, which includes the Jamaican-inflected, booty-winding hooks of “Ride or Die” and the two-step-influenced summer jam, “Find a Boy,” she stirs a melting pot of pop. Kabba, who performs as A*M*E, knows her songs are good—a track she co-wrote debuted at number one in Korea, care of K-pop girl group f(x)—and with a T-Pain collaboration already in the can, she has her sights set on chart conquests of her own.
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Vintage Album Artwork | Pop graphics for Sudan’s Mohamed Merghani.
Courtesy of Radio Diffusion.
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A girl walks past election posters for incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.
[Credit : Rebecca Blackwell/AP]
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80 warsan is elsewhere.: how i take care of myself.
- long baths
- napping
- bill murray
- somali tea (cinnamon, cardamom, cloves)
- read the qur’an in english out loud to myself because it is a long poem
- don’t take anything personally
- never assume
- laugh
- go to another town
- another city
- another country
- get a facial/manicure/pedicure/massage
- …
Thank you warsan
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