Culture

About the Relationship Between Africans and African Americans

Last night, @MisstoyaJ sent me a couple of tweets asking me to address the meaning of the word “akata” by Nigerians and other Africans because they had seen it on Twitter. It felt cheap to just talk about the word without talking about the larger dynamic behind it. This led …

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Videos

Reason Africans Don’t Answer Phone Calls Has Me Cackling

Clifford Owusu’s YouTube video has me cracking up. It’s called “Reason Africans Don’t Answer Phone Calls.” Watch, laugh and learn to move your body like him. SON. LMAOOOO! That is a man after my own heart! HE WAS GETTING ALL HIS LIFE! I LOVE how African men dance. CHEI! My …

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