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Decolonizing African Beauty and cease Bleaching and Eurocentric beauty standards.

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In Africa, colonization had two main components. Infiltration: Stripping away culture, self, indoctrinating Africans and Appropriation: looting, pillaging the culture and treasure, commercializing and passing them off as their own while massively profiting at the expense of the colonized.   Infiltration: For centuries, Black people/Africans (especially Black women) have been conditioned to believe that our features are somehow less desirable. The full lips, wide noses, influences of European standards have permeated and persisted, skewing expectations of beauty for every ethnicity.    Eurocentric features such as a pointy nose, lighter skin, thinner lips, straight hair, slim figure, wider eyes, blue eyes etc, are “beautiful”, everything else isn’t which has made skin bleaching a multi million dollar industry. European colonialism shoved its traits and norms down the throat of Africans and infiltrated standards of beauty in every aspect. Beauty was measured ...

Uganda Cities, Municipalities and Towns should be a place worthy to call home.

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Uganda's capital city of Kampala is also by far the largest town in the country. The city is both the capital of Uganda and the backbone to the country’s economy. Despite the city dynamic and engaging activities, the growth and development is at snail’s pace and employment opportunities in the city are dwindling, so are the living conditions. Kampala has a population of around 1,659,600 as of the mid-year count taken in 2011. Apart from Kampala there are other Cities in Uganda such as Mbarara , Jinja, Mukono, Masaka, Lira, Hoima, Fort Portal and Gulu. In contrast to such other major cities in Africa as Nairobi and Lagos, Ugandan cities are not sprawled or overpopulated. The rate of crime is low, and the cities are way safer. The towns have a fast growing economy and are expected to grow into commercial hubs and fringes to "de-localize" and decentralize the already overcrowding Kampala. ...