Here is piece that is worth reading. http://www.policymic.com/articles/54105/the-one-thing-all-men-feel-but-never-admit. It’s about a new documentary in the making on men and boys with the title The Mask You Live In. The doccie works similar concerns we are seized with here at New African Men. Watch the trailer. The director of the doccie is Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The piece by Plank says the director went around … Continue reading
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Middle Class African Man
It is good for a society when the middle class is growing. Why? Because the middle class is good for society. This is what we are supposed to think. A report from the African Development Bank (AfDB) which showed that the number of middle class Africans has tripled over the last 30 years to 326 … Continue reading
Mbuyiselo Botha: I May Be A Proud Feminist, But I Am No Sissy
Somebody who doesn’t have the new reservations I expressed in the previous blog post (Feminist men have more sexual fun) about males calling themselves feminist is the activist Mbuyiselo Botha. A friend and comrade, Mbuyiselo and I agree about many things in this project of trying to make salient the effects of men’s social power over … Continue reading
Feminist Men Have More Sexual Fun
This is the article I wrote after the “Where are the Men? Critical Perspectives on Masculinities” event held at the University of Western Cape on Thursday 6 to Friday 7 September 2012. The article was published on Times Live on Sept 12. The article in my view was really a kind of a report on the … Continue reading