2016-09-20 12:38
I feel like virginity can be a blessing and a curse. As a 25 year old African woman who is single, I have questioned myself multiple times. Part of me feels like well luckily I haven't given… Read More
Blog Directory > Life Blogs > My Life Blogs > The Modern African Woman my-life Blog >
The Modern African Woman Blog
themodernafrican.blogspot.com.au
Tags:
women
african
skin
african men
western
social groups
skinned women
racism
younger
multiple times
This is a blog about the 21st century African females who struggle between tradition and culture and the Western societies modern ways.
2016-09-09 09:56
So I did blog about this before in the topic called The Black Jezebel but I was speaking in general, overall terms but let me get just a bit more intimate with you guys. As African wome… Read More
2016-09-09 08:34
Hello beautiful peopleI have not blogged in a very long time. I lost motivation for it, I just didn't know what else to say. I guess I was stuck for a while. Until my cousin suggested I blog… Read More
2016-01-30 12:45
Hey everyoneIt's been a busy January for me, but I hope you are all having an amazing 2016 so far. So I got tagged by my fellow blog sister Miss Felistas (please check out her blog) to… Read More
2015-12-24 05:24
I woke up today and a friend sent me this video Products Black People Wish Existed and it's sarcastic and funny but it really got me thinking. Living in Australia, a predominantly white… Read More
2015-11-24 04:12
I don't think I have talked about racism on my blog yet. Now the racism I'm talking about is not the conventional in your face type of racism, it's the one where it's passive aggressive, jab… Read More
2015-11-15 02:23
Hey yall.I have been quiet for a while now. I just had no motivation but I've had so many stories that relate to this blog in the last few months. So, I have been online dating for a few mon… Read More
2015-03-22 07:04
The other day my 5 year old niece asked about why:She is black and the children at her school are not?She has afro hair whilst children at her school have straight hair?There are no black pe… Read More
2015-03-22 06:23
I went back to Zimbabwe in July 2014 and I really enjoyed seeing my family and it just felt great being around everyone again after 6 years. I did sense a difference from when I was 16 and n… Read More
2015-01-31 05:24
Bleaching is a common phenomenon in today's world from the US to India to Africa to Malaysia.This pursuit for lightness is very common in African cultures and a topic of debate everywhere. I… Read More
2014-11-19 02:55
Losing weight is so difficult and my mentality makes it even harder for me to do so. As an African woman I have always believed that being curvy and bigger was a good thing, African men like… Read More
2014-11-18 13:06
It has been some time since I wrote in this blog and honestly I had almost forgotten about it until I read a post I wrote a while ago on Interracial dating. This week I embraced the sociolog… Read More
2014-02-12 15:48
Happy New Year everyone, it has been a while since I have motivated to blog, so here we go :)There is a particular issue that scares the daylights out of me and this is juju (voodoo). This i… Read More
2014-02-03 09:48
I was speaking with my boyfriend about something that I just find disgusting and saddening. There was an article that came out recently about a South African preacher who encouraged the cong… Read More
2013-06-26 15:36
With so many Africans going abroad and experiencing other cultures. I believe the modern Africans are becoming more open, understanding and accepting of other practices and in some cases emb… Read More
2013-05-12 08:30
Not only can people judge by the way we look but they can also judge by the way we speak. Africa has many different countries with many different languages which means people speak in many d… Read More
2013-04-02 07:43
Gay Art Love by naiveartDecember 11 2012CC BY-NC-SA 2.0This is a very touchy topic and even though the Western culture is growing to accept it and taking steps towards equality. Africa on th… Read More
2013-03-02 13:31
A few years ago I did a research on how society views black women and there were three main views of black women - The Mammy = a mum like figure who has no sex appeal, The Jezebel- a sexual… Read More
2013-02-08 06:53
Lately I've notice a large majority of people I know are getting married, already married or are starting to have kids and being raised African we have such a complicated way of getting marr… Read More
2013-01-10 10:33
I read this article which was about Skin Bleaching and its connection to self-hatred and having a Colonial Mentality. It was so powerful it really got me thinking White people who tan are th… Read More
2013-01-03 04:51
This blog really made me think about a few things that I'm going to share with you in this post:What does it mean to you to be African? When you say I'm African, what do you think… Read More
2013-01-03 04:51
Prisionera by ZahiraPhoto Taken Oct 22 2010 CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0African American, African, Muslim, Indian are just the few communities that have this unspoken code of silence. Whether it is… Read More
2013-01-03 04:50
Facebook ad by Irina SlutskyPhoto Taken Nov 12 2008CC-BY 2.0This is a topic that most people have an opinion about. When black men date white, Asian or Hispanic women, th… Read More
2013-01-03 04:50
So I was watching this show the other day called Toughest Place to be a Midwife and I watched the very end where this African girl came into the hospital with painful pains in her private ar… Read More
2013-01-03 04:47
We are females and we are African, so we have a double whammy and the pressure comes from both sides. Because we are women, there is the expectation that we need to be beautiful, c… Read More
Subscribe to The Modern African Woman
Get updates delivered right to your inbox!