On Being -The Exemplary Case of Being Oneself

1. No sure whether the original African woman’s face went with shaved eyebrows!!!!!

   • I think the point is about the hair and skin. Africans have beautiful curly kinky hair which they should be proud of instead of putting those brazilian weaves.We have lovely dark brown skin which will not burn in the sun ,there is no need to bleach it.A natural African woman is beautiful…Men should take the lead in affirming natural women,for a long time our men have glorified fair skinned women with sleek straight hair.That is the only reason women felt the need to go to extreme lengths to match the perceived beauty

   • Is CB trying to protect his mandevu. CB once UPND forms government next year, the first thing we will do is to shave your mandevu and give you are nice tie to wear.

   • Have u these extensions all women are wearing smell..for me natural is the best, Afro, dreads or even pala. I would never take a bleached woman or one with Brazilian to dinner…

2. What a refreshing write up Dr. away from politics a sign that in UPND we a big happy family not the bitter pipo some want to portray as.

3. Not sure the point Canisius Banda is trying to drive home. It seems though to be a justification for the long hair he keeps and the sometimes unkempt beard he carries. Not surprising coming from a man who once, in his writings on the internet, called the Marijuana plant “an intelligent plant”. I wonder how he realised this. May be from having smoked parts of the plant and the after effects it left with him which made him think it was an intelligent plant.

4. Dr has run out of things to say ho by the way you are not the running mate of our Presido it will be GBM he has mullas

5. I’m left baffled over here; is this the Dr Banda politician or what? The first name suggests so. Politics aside, this indeed is a master piece, great job a dotolo!

6. The Dr has written well and his point is clear. #zedoc, the marijuana plant is a good plant for medicinal purposes although it has been abused by Rastas and others. Now scientists are rediscovering the benefits of plant. so the Doc knew what he wrote. back to the point in the article, the African woman in the photo looks superb and not those who are bleaching their skin and wearing weaves or Indian human hair.

7. Cassius, just present your manifesto instead of beating about the bush.

8. Thanks Doc. The biggest problem with Africa is Inferiority complex. Everything is not original and it takes such articles to start highlighting masses about identity including fake religion in the name of Christianity.

9. Fantastic article Doc. Almost everything is adopted maybe apart from Nshima. Most people wake up with Brazilian hair going Ku church to go and worship the so called god in a small book called the bible. Its so sad and yet busy condemning the plant which Jah made. Wake up Africa.

10. Politics aside this a well written article. Lets love our kinky hair ladies and gentlemen, that is what differentiates us.

11. The point is missed by “zedoc” and “umwina nkana”. and these are voters. Anyone heard of “RESPONSIBLE VOTERS”

12. Dr Banda. This criticism of women who prefer to ‘enhance’ their looks will not work. Hair styles, fashion revolve and rotate every 20 years. Women go back to what they were wearing, the way they were looking during this cycle. Looks depend on preferences.

    Most women I have talked to say the kinky hair is unmanagable and the extensions are user–friendly. Someone in the UK did a documentary on this and found out that there are so many dynamics about this issue. The guy was white and was shocked about what he found out that kinky hair is so cuorse and unmanageable. He ouched it for the first time and was shocked.

13. Balefwaya aba shanisha Afunika..lol..

14. Ichunsu Chunsu, even our parents brought us up to look after ourselves and be neat. Dotolo wa ndevu cannot justify hippish behaviour in the name of originality. You live in society with others. Tewe kalalampanga, iyo! For those that want to bleach their skins and stretch their hair using chemicals, they should not expect society to pay for their ill-health arising therefrom. They should take personal responsibility for their habits.

15. Even those that stretch their hair using chemicals and are hooked to western skimpy dressing will tell you they feel confident in the way they dress and how they have their hair treated. I do not know if we can have an objective standard about dressing and styling hair in an original African way. Even the clothes dotolo wandevu wears today are western. So are his shoes, pants etc. So, I wonder what the moral of his story is about. He should not condemn others for not trying to be original in his own African sense of being original when he himself Canisius Banda adorns western clothes. Even his medical degree is western. He should probably try to be a traditional African medicine man.

16. …what has become of CB kanshi….his recent write ups somehow make sense from a poet’s point of view but again…when you analyse the articles beyond a poet’s mind…it leaves a trail of weirdness and a boiling pot of confussion…I strongly recommend CB to consider remarrying as soon as he can….

17. But the woman has shaven fipenipeni. Tell her not ftp shave.

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