On Aug 1, 2014, I wrote my article titled: “Bleaching” Your Skin Insults Your Creator, and Makes You Lose Dignity (Message from Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Lupita Nyong’o to Black/African Parents & their Children)” – click here to read it.
Back then I had not really come across any notable African celebrity who has spoken out against skin bleaching and other ills like Lupita Nyong’O had been doing.
So, when last month I came across this news report about an interview in which Marah Louw has done just that, I knew I would need to republish it on this blog.
I am SO tired of seeing phony looking African females trying to dress, look and sound like (what they consider) classy white women.
And I am equally tired of watching many silly and misguided African males showing illogical preference for lighter skinned females in defining beauty and choosing their partners.
To protect my sons and daughters from these warped values, I will continue to write about them and actively discourage their perpetuation. Recommending this report is one of several ways I do that.
Read the full interview with Marah Louw below:
[RECOMMENDED] “You will never find white people wearing our hair” says Marah Louw, Former South African actress and singer,
Marah Louw a South African singer and actress was this week a guest on the DJ Sbu Breakfast show where she shared her thoughts on the “bleaching phenomenon” and “black self-loathing”. She feels that weaves and bleaching go against people “insulting” what God has created.
She said that she has always been against it because it boils down to “low self-esteem and self-loathe”.
“You will never find white people wearing our hair the way we [wear] other people’s hair; going all out like that. You will never find white people wearing afro wigs, black afro wigs to go out and stuff, unless it’s a [themed] party or the circus,” she added.
“Low self-esteem made us black people hate the colour of their skin, it made us feel like we were [cheated] because we are black. Even in my time people used things like “Ambi cream” so that they became lighter, but I don’t understand why we are insulting the way God created us,” she said.
Source 2: https://thisisafrica.me/will-never-find-white-people-wearing-hair-says-marah-louw/
