The Displaced African

Pretty provocative title huh?

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Three Part Article

This weekend I will be taking a trip and will have some time to think and reflect, so I thought I would ask y’all to help me reflect.

Part one: What Do You Want to Read?

As I approach article number 150, and readership continues to slowly climb, I thought I would take some time out to ask you all what you want to read. So, leave a comment or email me privately by clicking on the “email the author” link at the bottom of the article and let me know what articles you would like to read?

Don’t let the limits of logic impede you, if you can imagine it and you want to read it, let me know about it. It might be something that I have wanted to do all along

Part two: What Have Been Your Favorite Articles So Far?

Again, leave a comment or email me, but please let me know which one or two or three or 7 articles have you liked from this blog so far?

Part three: Ways I Can Improve this Blog?

Even a sentence answering any of these 3 questions would be great but ideally, a paragraph or two or seven. Remember, I started this blog with the intent of doing some good, so help me serve you better.

Be blessed and bless others,

Mwangi

Hello,

This one is a very light-hearted phone conversation between myself and my two younger sisters. This one is for anyone who might be thinking of or is raising some immigrant kids. Hope you derive some value from it.

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 Opinions on Melbourne from Children [11:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello,

You know this article applies almost exactly to me. Though at present I am not a very big fan of esoteric or linguistically complex and philosophical pieces of writing, i.e. I like to dumb things down and like people who do the same, I can’t deny that this piece is introducing an idea that’s definitely one that’s worth thinking about and exploring through more pieces of writing, books, films etc. People like us African immigrants are an entirely unique entity unto ourselves and its time we began talking about our Afropolitan nature. Enjoy!

NB: I have quoted text from this blog post verbatim

What exactly is an “Afropolitan”?

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I’m sorry. I never use Internet explorer. However, I received a message from an old friend of mine who happened to stop by the blog. He said that the blog looked very cluttered and messy in design.

Anyway, I decided to open up my site on Internet Explorer and lo and behold there are things all over the place. Therefore for those of you who have been regular Internet explorer readers and have had to deal with those problems: my apologies and I’m on it.

I hope to make the site a bit more presentable in the near future and until then allow me to coax you to join the best free browser on Earth…Mozilla Firefox

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I interrupt the scheduled festivities to say two things: Read the rest of this entry »

 

 Happiness track one: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

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Hope you are enjoying your day of rest! I have already expressed my opinions on gangsta rap, and those opinions definitely do not extend to the 7 artists I talk about below. These artists are actually part of the reason it’s close to impossible for me to take a lot of gangsta rap seriously.
After all how can you settle for less when you have seen musicality at its finest. Long ago I promised I would do a post of this nature….the promise is now fulfilled. Read the rest of this entry »