Modernising the ‘primitive African’: The influence of colonialism on African dressing
“Europe created the concept of savageness and barbarism as antithesis to its modernity and civilisation. Henceforth, Europe was to represent the modern model and the rest was to represent the antiquity; the traditional” Rabah Omer ‘The Modern and the Traditional: African Women and Colonial Morality’ During the 15th Century, Europeans set out on a quest […]
The Issue of Development
THE STATE OF AFRICA: ARE WE TO BLAME? There has always been difficulty when it comes to explaining the current state of many African countries that are struggling to improve socially and economically. The conversations have always boiled down to the question of whether as a continent we struggle because of our colonial history or […]