‘Demystifying’ African (Romantic) Love [Updated]

I think that African love also needs to be demystified because some people seem to believe that love did not exist in Africa before the Europeans came. These people believe that in pre-colonial times, Africans did not fall in love at all. Marriages were arranged, young girls were married to old men with harems and…

‘Demystifying’ African Female Initiation Rites

It makes my blood boil when I hear things coming out the mouths of some Africans that seem more suitable in the mouths of the most extreme and ignorant racists. I do realise that most Africans do not know their own history and most people today associate female initiation with nothing but female genital mutilation.…

The Amazons

I will not be an excellent admirer of badass women and/in history if I do not write about the Amazons so here I go! If you should know something else about me, it is that I like love these righteously ‘hard and cold’ as I like to call them women. Foremost, Amazon literally means ‘without…

Gay Love in History, Take 3

So I guess this post is going to be (a bit) controversial… Without further ado, I present the modern concept of sexual abnormality. Modern civilization generally prevents ‘men’ from having any qualities in common with ‘women’ and this is the nucleus around which sexual perversion is organised. This monitoring of personalities begins in childhood in…

Fighting Ignorance

‘Fighting’ ignorance with ignorance does not help resolve the issue. What I mean to say is one cannot claim to confront ignorance by being ignorant themselves. It is really annoying and disappointing when I see people complaining about (for example) racism directed towards them by being racist themselves. I mean if everyone did that how…

Gay Love In History, Take 2

~~You may want to read Take 1 and Take 1.5 before reading this~~ It seems in history what I shall henceforth refer to as ‘the Spartan system’ was in place in several cultures all over the world. We have seen African societies in which homosexual relations were encouraged between boys and men in military style…

Gay Love In History, Take 1.5

So I have found that notebook, thankfully it was not sent to Nigeria with my other stuff. I am now in the process of analyzing the data I gathered. Anyway before the much anticipated ‘Take 2’ is published, I’d very much like to share a lovely story about a young page called Fuwa Bansaku and…