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Katie Meyler, I never heard of the name till yesterday and luckily so. Although she is supposedly famous in the “African charity industry,” a multi-billion-dollar capitalism driven economy abusively called philanthropism, I never got the bad luck to stumble...

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Tag(s) : #Afrique, #Africa

The debate around immigration has intensified the past few years on the Western Hemisphere. In fact, it has become a prominent conversation that has seen the rise of far-right politicians who owe their success to anti-immigration populism. Migration is...

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Tag(s) : #Immigration, #World, #Afrique, #Africa

The debate around immigration has intensified the past few years on the Western Hemisphere. In fact, it has become a prominent conversation that has seen the rise of far-right politicians who owe their success to anti-immigration populism. Migration is...

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Tag(s) : #Immigration, #World, #Afrique, #Africa

The debate around immigration has intensified the past few years on the Western Hemisphere. In fact, it has become a prominent conversation that has seen the rise of far-right politicians who owe their success to anti-immigration populism. Migration is...

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Tag(s) : #Immigration, #World, #Afrique, #Africa

Farida Nabourema uses her blog to expose the corruption and oppression of the Faure Gnassingbé regime in Togo. She recounts the actions that her led to her start the Faure Must Go movement, which has galvanized tens of thousands of her followers to hold...

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Tag(s) : #FaureMustGo, #Togo, #Afrique, #Africa, #OFF

His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio, It is with great joy that I welcome the news of your victory. The people of Sierra Leone have chosen you to lead them for the next five years. Despite tremendous pressure and attempts to silence it, democracy...

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Tag(s) : #Sierraleone, #Africa, #Sierraleonedecides

Making Togo Relevant Countries, just like people are not created equal. In the world we live in, some countries are more relevant than others and some people have it easier than others. But as people are encouraged to fight for equality, PEOPLE as the...

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Tag(s) : #Togo, #Togodebout, #FaureMustGo, #Worldpolitics, #Africa

There is a stigma that comes with the word feminism in the African community and there is this tendency to label it as a western concept. The majority of the people who so strongly stand against “feminism” misunderstand the meaning of the word itself...

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Tag(s) : #Togo, #Afrique, #Africa, #FEMMES, #WomenRights, #Feminism, #March8

I was 15 years old when I was first denied a visa to visit the United States. It was in April 2005 and my mother and I were supposed to attend my older sister’s graduation in Washington D.C. For my mom’s visa to be approved, she had to go through a very...

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Tag(s) : #Immigration, #United States, #Africa, #Afrique, #Trump, #Visa

Dear African Child, One day you will read this open letter that I hope will enlighten you about the world in which you were born. I would like in the following lines, to anticipate your possible concerns and offer you the chance (that I never had) to...

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Tag(s) : #Africa, #Afrique

~~In all societies, there are vices and disparaging traditions for some and demeaning customs for others. From the white people who pay women less than men for the same work done, who rape thousands of women each year even at the UN mission, to the Arabs...

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Tag(s) : #Africa, #Afrique, #FEMMES

Whenever I tell people, especially Americans, the ones that were born and raised in the USA that I never knew that I was Black till I came to this country, they are confused and I am sure some of you are too. My first “racial” shock started in the airplane...

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Tag(s) : #Africa, #World