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AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS 2013: Ghana Beats Cape Verd 2-0 To Qualify For The Semi Finals

Despite playing a 1980 style of football with pressure mounting on them throughout the whole 90 minutes, Ghana’s Black Stars have managed to reach the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations after Mubarak Wakaso scored a controversial penalty and a breakaway goal. After a poor first half, Ghana won a penalty on 54 minutes … Read more

MUST READ: Are We That Extensively Insecure As Black People?

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Before any of you jump unto me, let me state that this piece equally applies to white people but since my audience is predominantly black, I will stick with this title.

To get me started, I have considered several meanings of the word ‘insecurity’ with the following being widely accepted;

Insecurity is a feeling of general unease or nervousness that may be triggered by perceiving of oneself to be vulnerable in some way, or a sense of vulnerability or instability which threatens one’s self-image or ego.

An insecure individual has to constantly repeat through words or actions how great or attractive they think they are or how certain they think their position is when clearly they’re not entirely sure about it. They might be trying to convince themselves its all true.

Why Am I Saying We Are Extensively Insecure As Black People?

I am not looking at the sort of insecurities we develop as a result of our relationship with others, these are things we do not have control over.

I am talking about our failure to embrace and accept who we are; which leads us to re-construct ourselves and images in a way we think would be acceptable when we have to be out there.

Skin bleaching is a classic example of this but since we all know about it, I would not waste your time with that. I am considering a common trait of insecurity that we have all bought into, leaving behind our real personalities and images, a fast developing mannerism that we are gradually embracing.

Have you realize that, you can longer see your own friends out of their make-up personality? I can’t remember the last time I saw my best friend without a make-up and I know she can’t even think of when she saw me without one.

Even on a girls’ night in when my best friend is simply coming to spend time with me at home, I rush to cover what only God knows on my face with make-up. I have a perfect spotless face but somehow, I have found myself in being insecure about the real me. I only feel good and presentable (according to my own feeling) when I have muddied my face with make-up.

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In This Month Of Love, We Ask The All Important Question…What Is LOVE To You?

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Love is probably the most popular English word in the world. Everyone of will in our life time use the word love (even if we do so in a different language). Though it has variety of meanings depending on who is looking at it, there serenity of the word cuts through all human hearts.

To many of us, love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment to someone or something. Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection.

Though compassionate and affection towards oneself comes under the umbrella of love, it is “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another” that describes love for me best.

What is love to you?

Love has several meanings to several people. It has no single definition because it is made of countless components-virtues.  We ask for and offer love in all aspect of our lives with interpersonal relationship being one of the high places love is expected.

When I look for love in relationships, I look for kindness, peace, understanding, beauty, elegance, pleasure, affection, compassion, attraction, loyalty, lust, faithfulness, romance, sexual satisfaction, friendship, closeness and strong-like in perpetuity.

The many components that come together to make up love explain why it has numerous meanings and interpretations.

“Love may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love, or to a concept of love that encompasses all of those feelings”.

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Funny Face Hints of Swaggon Fashion Line

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If all goes well, actor and comedian Funny Face, who is also known as ‘Chemu’ in hit television series ‘Chorkor Trotro’ will be coming out with his own fashion line and other products from his label. The comedian hinted that, the products will include T-Shirts, pens, Erasers, Exercise books and wrist bands. He tweeted that; … Read more