Why are africans naked

Ugandan women protesting in Kampala in A couple of months ago, a firestorm of controversy and debate was ignited in Uganda when Dr Stella Nyanzi stripped naked as a form of protest. Nude protests have a long tradition in Uganda and Africa more widely. Under colonialism, they became part of some independence struggles. And in the last half-century, they have been typically been targeted at government authorities.

Search Submit. Historians report that they migrated from Ethiopia to their present-day settlement in about the AD. This language forms a part of the Nilo-Saharan African language group. Their social systems and organization have a well-rounded sex balance, and this we can tell from their marriage custom which requires the man to wrestle the woman he intends to serve as his bride. Another peculiar trait which cannot go unnoticed amongst the Karamajong tribesmen is their desire to go about their daily duties near-naked, and completely naked on occasions irrespective of age, sex or social status. Support Pan-African Journalism Subscribe. The human being Homo sapiens is the only known primate that has a nearly naked skin given the fact that all other known members of our extended animal relations have some generous amount of covering on their skin.

Women undressing as a way of showing dissatisfaction, is regarded immoral in many global cultures. However, in Africa, the perceptions are varied- some tribes have no problem with it, while the number of those who are critical of outrage nudity is also huge. In the west, the practice of women undressing is done in gazetted areas like Casinos and bars, and photos showing women half naked are placed on billboards for advertisement and for other economic reasons.

This sort of article is absolutely symptomatic. But of what? After all, how does it happen that a text like this one can be so incredibly adept at diagnosing itself, and yet be so incredibly oblivious as it does so?