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    themeditationresolution:

    Here is a piece of advice on trust that my tumblr friend (someonesgottahelpmedig) told me shortly after I made this post.

    Can you trust yourself? Because that’s really all you need.

    You’re a person.

    Do you trust you?

    Do you trust yourself to love yourself always?

    Do you trust…

    So RELEVANT in my life right now. Thank you!

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    ghanailoveyou:

    THE SHUTTERED GHANAIAN
    stillsbytjletsa

    “ THE SHUTTERED GHANAIAN is my first collective of a miscellany of unique Ghanaian portraits shot in Accra, Ghana.

    I have always had a creative side. Picking up a camera just helped me to express it more. I’m on a journey with my creative self to portray my heart. I believe in the art of photography and not the science of it. It is my desire to document my time, in a way which would be remembered even in the minutest way or through the most simplest ways.”.

    TJ Letsa - Tumblr | Facebook 

    Letsa’s portrait series features Ghanaian professionals Kobby Graham and Allen Coleman.

    (via dynamicafrica)

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    "It is not you that falls short in being “good enough” - it is the result of how things play out, reminding you that you are worth better."

    -

    Karmarist - (tumblr.com/karmarist)

    this - currently relevant

    (Source: aguyseye)

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    "Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship…. And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings."

    - D.H. Lawrence (via quotessquid)
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    africaisdonesuffering: Women in Africa and the Diaspora: “You Say Nappy like it’s a Bad Thing” Lately I’ve found myself really pondering the question of what good hair is and exactly how it is determined. I’ve come to realize that sporting “good hair” is not the same as possessing good hair. Good hair is healthy hair that is grown from the roots. In essence, good hair is naturally well maintained hair. Yet when commonly used, the term “good hair” is not referring to well maintained and healthy hair but rather it is a description of less kinky and nappy hair. Growing up, if someone wanted to insult you all they had to do was to make a comment about your nappy hair. The words “kinky” and “nappy” were and still are never used as a compliment even within the natural community. You will never hear someone say, “Wow, that girl is so beautiful and I love how she’s rocking her nappy hair.” As Africans the words “nappy” and “kinky” has a negative connotation and are words we use to degrade each other. When I started my journey from relaxed to natural hair, I found myself having to beg for my mother’s support. She was completely against the idea of me embracing my naps and kinks and wanted me to perm my hair. She would often make jokes about how nappy my hair was and how it would look better if I permed or straightened it. Almost 3 years later, my mother now understands the importance of me embracing every aspect of me, even the texture of my hair. She’s become more supportive of my journey and has even started the process of transitioning from relaxed to natural hair. continue reading

    africaisdonesuffering:

    Women in Africa and the Diaspora: “You Say Nappy like it’s a Bad Thing”

    Lately I’ve found myself really pondering the question of what good hair is and exactly how it is determined. I’ve come to realize that sporting “good hair” is not the same as possessing good hair. Good hair is healthy hair that is grown from the roots. In essence, good hair is naturally well maintained hair. Yet when commonly used, the term “good hair” is not referring to well maintained and healthy hair but rather it is a description of less kinky and nappy hair.

    Growing up, if someone wanted to insult you all they had to do was to make a comment about your nappy hair. The words “kinky” and “nappy” were and still are never used as a compliment even within the natural community. You will never hear someone say, “Wow, that girl is so beautiful and I love how she’s rocking her nappy hair.” As Africans the words “nappy” and “kinky” has a negative connotation and are words we use to degrade each other. When I started my journey from relaxed to natural hair, I found myself having to beg for my mother’s support. She was completely against the idea of me embracing my naps and kinks and wanted me to perm my hair. She would often make jokes about how nappy my hair was and how it would look better if I permed or straightened it. Almost 3 years later, my mother now understands the importance of me embracing every aspect of me, even the texture of my hair. She’s become more supportive of my journey and has even started the process of transitioning from relaxed to natural hair.

    continue reading

    (via ilovemy4c-hair)

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    vogue: Nicole Richie preps for the CFDA Awards. Read Getting Ready for the CFDA Awards: Nicole Richie, Teresa Palmer, and Cody Horn on Vogue.com. Photograph by Taylor Jewell She looked immaculate <3 <3

    vogue:

    Nicole Richie preps for the CFDA Awards.

    Read Getting Ready for the CFDA Awards: Nicole Richie, Teresa Palmer, and Cody Horn on Vogue.com.

    Photograph by Taylor Jewell

    She looked immaculate <3 <3

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    b-sama:

    Dr. Dambisa Moyo responds to Bill Gates’ personal attacks

    On May 28th, 2013 during a Q&A session at the University of New South Wales, Bill Gates, co-Founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, made some shocking and inappropriate ad-hominem attacks against me and my book Dead Aid.

    In this video excerpt, Mr. Gates answers a question about Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is A Better Way for Africa by claiming that I “didn’t know much about aid and what it was doing” and that my work is “promoting evil”.

    I find it disappointing that Mr. Gates would not only conflate my arguments about structural aid with those about emergency or NGO aid, but also that he would then use this gross misrepresentation of my work to publicly attack my knowledge, background, and value system.

    I would like to take this opportunity to address both of Mr. Gates’ claims here:

    1. I wrote Dead Aid to contribute to a useful debate on why, over many decades, multi billions of dollars of aid has consistently failed to deliver sustainable economic growth and meaningfully reduce poverty. I also sought to explicitly explain how decades of government to government aid actually undermined economic growth and contributed to worsening living conditions across Africa. More than this, I clearly detailed better ways for African leaders, and governments across the world, to finance economic development. I have been under the impression that Mr. Gates and I want the same thing – for the livelihood of Africans to be meaningfully improved in a sustainable way. Thus, I have always thought there is significant scope for a mature debate about the efficacy and limitations of aid. To say that my book “promotes evil” or to allude to my corrupt value system is both inappropriate and disrespectful.
    2. Mr. Gates’ claim that I “didn’t know much about aid and what it was doing” is also unfortunate. I have dedicated many years to economic study up to the PhD level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid, and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation. To this, I add my experience working as a consultant at the World Bank, and being born and raised in Zambia, one of the poorest aid-recipients in the world. This first-hand knowledge and experience has highlighted for me the legacy of failures of aid, and provided me with a unique understanding of not only the failures of the aid system but also of the tools for what could bring African economic success.

    To cast aside the arguments I raised in Dead Aid at a time when we have witnessed the transformative economic success of countries like China, Brazil and India, belittles my experiences, and those of hundreds of millions of Africans, and others around the world who suffer the consequences of the aid system every day.

    In conclusion, I am disappointed that Mr. Gates would choose the route of personal attacks rather than a logical counter argument about the role of aid in modern Africa. Such attacks add no value in the important discussions on the challenges the world faces to deliver economic growth, eradicate poverty, combat disease, and reduce income inequality, to name a few.

    As I have always maintained, I respect the views of others and am open to having logical and meaningful debates with the ultimate goal of finding sustainable solutions to Africa’s economic problems.

    Thank you,

    Dr. Dambisa Moyo

    (via dynamicafrica)

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