I will love to see the day when Afrikan women will WEAR WITH PRIDE IN PUBLIC the beauty that is re-created or/and reconstructed from the originality and uniqueness of our ancient ALKEBULAN LOOKS.... One of the main reasons why Im disillusioned with media, especially TV, it is because there is too much Euro-centric notions of beauty in the media, especially on TV. Although I celebrate plurality, I become cautious and skeptical when Euro-centric notions of beauty and culture are extensively promoted to be dominant, and, at the expense of our AFRIKAN notions of beauty.... When we watch TV these days mostly only thin (slender) women in their whiggs or weaves are promoted. And these kind of women have suddenly become the representations of beauty for our women..... I am not suggesting that to be slender with a weave or whigg is a crime or a sin. Of course slenders are beautiful in their own ways. But my major concern here is that why only Euro-centric notion of beauty is being promoted by and on our TV? Where are other notions of beauty? In particular, where are our AFRIKAN notions of beauty? Television promotes humiliation if it comes to our Afrikan notions of beauty. For instance, if you have notice, almost all adverts about thick (or fat) people, thick people are represented as people who are obsessed with food or/and who are clowns, as if thickness (fatness) is only caused by eating too much. These adverts disregard the fact that in AFRIKA genes play a major part in making people to be thick (or fat).... That is why I am crying and yearning for the day when AFRIKAN WOMEN will re-invent our ancient Alkebulan looks, and wear and exhibit them with pride in public without fearing to be ostracised for looking beatiful in an AFRO-CENTRIC WAY. Afrikan women must re-invent the originality and the uniquenness of our ancient Alkebulan ways of Beauty..... I understand that under these neo-colonialist imperialist conditions, it is difficult to re-invent yourself, but, by all means, we must try.... We must bear in mind, that none but ourselves can free our minds and totally emancipate ourselves from the shackles of oppression... AFRIKAN WOMEN must re-invent their ancient socio-cultural components (and even spiritual ways) of being GODDESSES of the continent and even of the Earth, and re-take their positions of being the true torsh-bearers of what we call AFRIKAN BEAUTY.... (Once Afrikan women were GODDESSES)***
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:51:10 +0000