Rukayat Aliyu
Rukayat Aliyu is an Africanist Activist, Poet and Author and an advocate of non-consumerism. She is the co-founder of Exodus to Africa International, a non-profit based in New York, USA and supporting the intellectual and physical return home of Africa's Departed Genius. Her website.
Articles by this Author
Yorůbá Girl Found
- By Rukayat Aliyu
- Published 01/28/2008
- Life Abroad
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I had a very memorable conversation - in Yorùbá - with one of my fellow. It was the first time that I can remember, since beginning to learn the language, that I held a complete conversation with someone who wasn’t
testing me, questioning me or my authenticity…
Akátá vs. Afrikŕná: The Truth about our ‘Differences’
- By Rukayat Aliyu
- Published 08/20/2007
- Life Abroad
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Tensions between “Akatas” and Africans in this country have worsened since the upsurge of African immigration here in the ‘80s, but were always there. And they remain tense, in some circles. Why?
Yorůbá Girl Lost
- By Rukayat Aliyu
- Published 07/20/2007
- Life Abroad
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I am a Yorùbá Girl Lost. My parents taught me neither the culture nor language. I was partially responsible for losing the language, because at age six, I decided that I was not going to speak it. The culture was lost when I was transposed into a foreign, non- Yorùbá environment...
It's Good To Be Black
- By Rukayat Aliyu
- Published 11/23/2006
- Introspective
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We need to rewrite our history, because as it stands now, most of what we learn is based upon a long-term fabrication of the truth done by those with something to hide.In order to rewrite it, we will first have to learn it...
Consumer Power: The Rich Black Race
- By Rukayat Aliyu
- Published 07/15/2006
- Life Abroad
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What if I told you to stop spending at Wal Mart? K-Mart? Kroger? Ralph's? Macy's, Bloomingdales, Prada, Banana Republic, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, AX? Could you do it? Am I crazy?
