“Elvis had read a newspaper editorial that stated, rather proudly, that Nigeria had a higher percentage of millionaires...than nearly any other country in the world, and most of them lived and conducted their business in Lagos. The editorial failed to mention that their wealth had been made over the years with the help of crooked politicians, criminal soldiers, bent contractors, and greedy oil company executives. Or that Nigeria also had a higher percentage of poor people than nearly any other country
Misrepresented Africa Images have the power to shape the mind of an individual’s knowledge of a place. The world is full of beautiful cities, states, and countries. The large continent of Africa is brought together by fifty-four beautiful countries, but in the media the images misrepresent Africa as a continent. Africa is constantly portrayed as victims of poverty, violence, hunger and diseases. Also, Africans are stereotyped to be uncivilized and uneducated. These images in the media neglect the
'The Icarus Girl' is the novel by Helen Oyeyemi. It is a story of a little girl 'Jessamy Harrison' also called as 'Jess'. She is a shy girl. She loves reading books. She spends most of the time alone writing haikus. Sometimes she had a panic attacks also. She is sensitive, possessed and have powerful imagination. She was very alone because there is nobody of her age. Throughout the novel she read many books, fairy tales, novels, poetry, and plays. So, here I pick a poem 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor
Beautiful, strong, loving, caring, pride, leader, respected...beautiful. Oh wait I said that, but it’s not said enough. I hope you remembered the words I mentioned above, if you can’t- well I will summaries it for you in its simplest form…WOMAN. They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder… but who feeds the beholder’s view of desirability and acceptance…is it media, cultures or maybe religion. And what is beauty, because the definition of it seems to evolve through time. A woman who might be
reported that “An estimated 1,282 tubes of lipstick and 2,055 jars of skin care products are sold every minute” (“Beauty in the mind and wallet of beholder,” Minnesota Daily Online, March 7, 2001). Everybody wants to own these products in order to look beautiful. But do cosmetics enhance your beauty? According to the Encarta dictionary, cosmetics can be defined as “beautifying substance: a preparation that is applied to the face or the body to make it more attractive, e.g. lipstick (often used in the plural)”
skin color, the more adored. This is still the case in many places today. Many people still unconsciously gravitates towards the light skinned children when children are in a group. The wrong message is still being sent today. All children are beautiful! In addition to this experience, the continual question about why my hands and body were darker than my face sent me a message that my skin needs blending or toning. I internalized the comments. So I desired to blend my skin tone. Not a Question
The girl was on a no-fat diet and finally reached her goal weight of one hundred and fifteen pounds. Her goal was to look like the women from the “Lady Marmalade” music video. Then she changes the direction, asking the audience what they had pictured, in turn
belonging. Ifemelu is the female protagonist of the novel and she is a teenager from Nigeria. She writes blogs mostly pertaining to her anger towards the topic of race. Ifemelu is vulnerable at times, but is a strong advocate of being true to one’s self. An example of when Ifemelu is shown to be vulnerable is when she lets her employer force her into having sex for $100. Obinze is a Nigerian The young lovers meet in Nigeria, but become separated when Ifemelu moves to America for school purposes. Ifemelu
distortions being clarified by such studies. An investigation into the use of Pidgin English in Nigeria is necessary in order to understand the social structures of the society and the language behaviour itself. Thus, an investigation into the use of Pidgin English in Nigeria is necessary in order to understand the social structures of the society and the language behaviour itself. Writing on Nigeria pidgin, Jowitt (31) remarks that recently the pidgin has attained the feat of dignity not only among
with beautiful colors, symbols and intricate techniques used to apply these elements, lies “important events, people or political struggles that in other parts of the world might be recorded in writing, or marked by a plaque or monument” (royalafricansociety.org). Moreover, in African culture,
The practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, occurs throughout the world, but it is most common in Africa. Female genital mutilation is a tradition and social custom to keep a young girl pure and a married woman faithful. In Africa it is practiced in the majority of the continent including Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique and Sudan. It is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual, which is performed by Muslims, Coptic Christians
“High heels aren't made for small feet” (Unknown). Beauty pageants are outdated. They objectify women and young girls, treating them as sexual objects. They create in these girls an inappropriate body perception about themselves, which can lead to eating disorders and harmful dieting rituals. Also, starting pageants at such young ages can cause physical and mental problems for the girls and women, as they grow up. They can create feelings of overconfidence or even lack of confidence, which can lead
The Maiden, the frog and the Chief’s son is not along the tale of the traditional “Cinderella” story that most people have grown to know. In Nigeria, a man had two wives. Of course, he favored one wife more so than the second. Both wives became pregnant with girls. The second wife grew ill and ended up passing away, leaving behind a child “with no mother of her own, just her fathers” (Cinderella 349). The motherless child lived with her stepmother and step sister, being forced to do hard chores
The world we live in doesn't accept us, the question I find myself thinking about the most is, why don't we accept ourselves? Is it really a misfortune to be born with a darker skin complexion? Colorism have been living in our community since slavery. It was back then were the lighter skinned black people got the privilege of working in the house completing jobs like cooking and cleaning as a house slave and the darker skinned slaves had to work out in the harsh fields. During the Jim Crow era churches
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Naomi Campbell. That is who I knew I was going to be like when I grew up. All through my childhood people told me I favored Naomi Campbell from my bone structures to my skinny petite weight. Naomi Campbell was an extraordinary supermodel in the 1990’s and continued being the face of African Americans women. As I went into my teen years, I stopped growing and started gaining weight. I was not fat I just was not diminutive. I started having low self-esteem and
women but men what society thinks they need to be. For young girls the classic stereotype is that they have to be afraid to get dirty, they only want to play with dolls, and that boys will be better at sport than girls. When a woman gets pregnant the stereotype is for her to give up her career to stay home with the baby while her husband gets to keep his career (Brewer). Gender roles Stereotype should be a thing of the past, according to most feminist, they are invisible barriers that you’re not supposed
senses. Beauty cannot be negative or ugly.” (Beirnet)However, there are various concepts of beauty across the globe. “In Nigeria, big and heavy women are considered beautiful and admired. In Burmese traditional view, women with long neck are considered beautiful.” (Plotnick 603). So if there are different concepts of beauty around the globe, how can we hail the most beautiful girl in the world? Thus, beauty pageant comes in. “Origin of beauty pageants was traced back from ancient European custom of
almost 300 girls were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria. Less than two weeks later, a young women was stabbed in the face, throat and stomach by her classmate in a Connecticut high school And a month later, Elliot Rodger went on a killing rampage in California. All three of these tragedies, all in the span of a month, occurred because women didn’t do what men wanted them to do and they refused to accept women as equals. The kidnapped Nigerian girls were to be sold and traded, the girl was stabbed
Introduction For the purpose of this assignment I will examine a quotation by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I will address the context to which my chosen quotation speaks and provide some background about the author of the quotation. I will explain the contestation raised by the quotation by exploring the nature thereof and identifying the parties involved. I will examine the role of power dynamics in shaping this contestation. Finally, I will provide an example of how I personally relate to contestation
tend to unconsciously adhere to. Adichie begins her talk by relating to the audience and providing a personal experience of how she as a child became a victim of the single story effect. Adichie talks about her life as a middle class girl who was born and raised in Nigeria and how she grew up with a mindset that people of lower social status were not capable of doing the same things she was. Adichie continues with a story about the houseboy whom her mom hired to help around the house. Adichie would observe