Contrasting with the ebony skin, a scintillating smile undoubtedly tops the list of the most attractive physical assets a woman, even a man for that matter, can possess in the Senegalese culture.  Hence today’s blog will be consecrated to an aesthetic practice called “diamou” or gum tattooing in English.  The practice of gum tattooing in […]

You must be either living under a rock, or born before 1970 if you don’t know what emojis are. Those little images, in the form of small yellow faces mimicking human expressions, everyday objects, or routine actions , have colonized the online communication world over the past decade. People use them when texting, writing emails […]

When i first saw the prompt of our task this week, i immediately knew the Ted talk i wanted to explore in this blog post. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is, from my opinion, the epitome of modern African intellect. I would even dare to put her on the same level of pioneers of African literature such […]