I’ve started thinking about making dolls again and out of curiosity I decided to check what was out there for sale on Etsy. I typed “black doll” in the search box…
To my surprise, a percentage of the dolls in the results were, [...]

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I’m breaking the silence to draw attention to a very special fundraising campaign. Many fans of Ethiopia know the significance of Fendika, and how important it is to save this oasis of Ethiopian culture in a city that is drastically changing.
I know that governments of developing countries [...]

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I often listen to the Canadian radio program Q with Jian Ghomeshi and this particular episode is very enlightening about how stereotypes about Africa continue to propagate in the western world. Neelika Jayawardane, a professor of post-colonial literature at Oswego State University of NY, discusses how usually books about Africa carry [...]

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Essaouira - The sea watchers by Amine Fassi
When I was a kid I would have never imagined I will become the mother of four children, three of them adopted. But as always, life happens.
Being the mother of so many sometimes catches me by surprise, I [...]

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