Friday, 24 November 2017

Shadeism

Your economic or educational gains regardless, as long as you’re black - I mean dark, you're vulnerable to colourism in Northern Africa. For the record, I'm not saying every North African is a nutcase like that, because even in the desert you'll find an oasis.

What I mean is, the recent footage of migrants being sold off as slaves in Libyan 'slave markets' is perhaps fresh and so it sparks outrage, but it's a manifestation of realities from 19 o'long. Gaddafi used many of our brothers as mercenaries.
If you ask me, ours is a clusterfuck of a continent where equality is just a pretext in speeches - as elusive as the U in AU, and as the C in ECOWAS.

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