Father and daughter. Danakil desert, Eritrea.
© Eric Lafforgue
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Keddy Olanya, a 32-year-old wife and mother of three from Gulu, northern Uganda, who is one of only a handful of female drivers negotiating the country’s potholed roads on a bodaboda or motorbike taxi.
Olanya had been a teacher for a year in Lukome village, also in the country’s north, when she realised back in 2008 that she could make more money by moonlighting as a boda driver during weekends and school holidays.
A large number of men are earning a living through the trade. Yet there is only one other known female driver in Gulu, Olanya tells IPS.
As a woman in a male-dominated industry, her gender can work for her, but also against her.
“Actually a female boda makes more money than the male boda,” admits the rider, who says she earned about 360,000 Ugandan shillings (138 dollars) a month in the classroom but can take home up to 50,000 Ugandan shillings (19 dollars) a day as a driver.
“I would like to encourage people to take up any form of work that they can do to earn themselves a living, without considering gender. Nowadays we are moving into a world of what? Of equality,” she stresses.
“Women are advocating for equality. We should not say that this is for male, this is for female. Just anything that can earn you a living, please do it, other than despising some other job.”
Olanya is part of a growing trend of teachers and other professionals moonlighting as drivers to make ends meet.
(via IPS – Driving Against Gender Stereotypes | Inter Press Service)
Jeremy Boateng by Masa Hamanoi - Styled by Hirohito Egusa | Deluxx Digital Issue 20
Racist attacks against black people in Namibia ? IN FUCKING NAMIBIA ???? Places where black people can’t go because the whites deem them ‘white only’ ???? IN FUCKING NAMIBIA ????
This is exactly why I fucking hate the whites who live in African countries. They’re the worst. Colonizing pieces of shit.
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Penile Fracture. This story man. This fucking story. (via jesuswaskorean)
This is it! I have no fucks to give for white folks living in African countries fulfilling their racist, colonialist, white supremacists fantasies.
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Penile Fracture tho
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“A New Image Through An African Lens” is the first of a series of panel discussions between the AADAT team and a diverse group of artists from Africa and the Diaspora. In an interactive conversation, the discussion will further examine how African photographers are actively taking charge of how their continent and its people are portrayed.
See this post to read more about the discussion and panelists. http://bit.ly/111wdoM
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
Namibia:
Photos of beautiful San women and girls by Tim Thornton* The San are one of the main history, culture, beauty, style and everything icons of Southern Africa imho.
Their faces are perfect
“Who can diagnose those of us who see too much?”
New poem from South African spoken word poet Maya Wegerif, better and more popularly known as ‘Maya the Poet’. This one’s called ‘Mudbloods’.
“Bring Bantu Biko back to us, un-glue those old tongues because these ones are telling us to hush”
who can diagnose those who see to much?
Photo by Yours Truly
dolapoadebolawilson.com coming soon
stay tuned
Botswana: 1950
Photos of the people of (then) Bechuanaland including Sir Seretse Khama and his wife, Ruth (parents of the current president of Botswana, Ian Khama), by Margaret Bourke-White
