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January 31, 2008
13:07
There are So Many Ways to Define Yourself: Is This How You Define Yourself?
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Part four of the 10 things I wish I knew before I landed in Australia

From time to time I write a post that is not specific to the African community but is more general and a lot more far reaching. Consider this one of those posts.

We begin with the age old question:

Who Are You, Really?

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January 29, 2008
1:17
What It Means To Be a Part of the African Race Not Just the Human One
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This post is a little winding, so please bear with me and I hope you get the nugget of truth that I was aiming for.

Part five of the 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Landed in Australia

Today’s story is one of transition. How is it that I went from a place of being deeply ashamed of my race to a place where it became one of the cornerstones of my identity? The story is not a linear one and a lot of the time it wasn’t very logical. As you read this I hope you see not only a glimmer of yourself in the past but also have a greater understanding of where you are now and perhaps begin to dream up who you could be in the future.

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January 27, 2008
13:53
What’s Wrong with Africa? Is it Africans?
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Hey,

Today I thought I would share with you all two great resources all revolving around answering the same question: What’s wrong with Africa? Is it Africans?

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January 25, 2008
12:37
Africans,do you have any problems that have to do with Immigration and Immigration Law?
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Hey,

How cool is this picture, I wish I had the Australian equivalent

As I pass the half way mark of my first ever series on the Displaced African, I thought I would give you heads up on what the next series would be about. (more…)

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12:06
No Matter the Cause of the Post Election Violence, These Are Twelve Steps You Can Take to End the Suffering in Kenya NOW!
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Hey,

First up, you may notice that the site is being upgraded at the moment. Most of the website is working at optimum level so don’t be scared; feel free to browse around and we will be done upgrading the site sooner rather than later .

Recently I decided that I would stop blogging about the post election violence for a couple of reasons:

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January 21, 2008
18:41
As an African are You Ashamed of This?
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Part three of the 10 things I wish I knew before I left Africa

You know it’s absoloutely amazing how ‘coincidences’ (is there really such a thing) occur at just the right time. As I was sitting down to right this article I noticed a great post from the Whispering Inn which ties in pefectly with what I want to talk about in this post. Please go to this page and listen to the audio of Mzee Jommo Kenyatta’s speech

I Am His African Child and I Feel Betrayed (more…)

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January 18, 2008
9:33
The Negative Effects of Hardcore Rap and What is the MASC?Do you want to be in the MASC?
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Part two of the 10 things I wish I knew before I landed in Australia

I know some of you are probably wondering why I released Part 7 of the series before I released Part 2.The reason is pretty simple: I couldn’t write part two. This is my fifth attempt at writing this article. For some reason, I just couldn’t seem to write this post in a way that ‘felt real’ to me and that I felt would serve at the same time.

Eventually, in the middle of the night, I had an epiphany: I have two younger sisters (more…)

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January 16, 2008
14:53
Jungle Fever: The Relationship Between African Men and White Women
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Part seven of the 10 things I wish I knew before leaving Africa

From Wikipedia encyclopedia: Jungle fever- a slang term for interracial relations

It was my last week in Kenya and I was just about to be shipped off to Australia. There I was, casually sauntering through Carnivore trying to convince older women that I still wasn’t being breast fed. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a friend of mine, drunker than a depressed brewery worker, come staggering down. He staggered directly to me, plopped his hand on my shoulder and delivered a monologue that I will probably never forger until the day I die. I paraphrase:

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January 14, 2008
1:31
Martin Luther King’s Dream Had One Little Hitch: Tolerance Isn’t All That It’s Cracked Up to Be
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Part one of the 10 things I wish I knew before I left Africa
One of my teachers once told me, “If you want to succeed, put words to things which people haven’t put words to yet. Give a name to, verbalize or talk about gnawing feelings that people have that they just can’t describe.” Ironically, I am about to do that for myself and in so doing I hope I give voice to some of the things that YOU experience.

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