Africans: Some Sanitary Measures

In this webisode, I chose to address personal hygiene and some measures we Africans can take to keep ourselves clean:

1. Team natural hair -- Team #solangeknowles. Team Chimamanda Adichie. Please comb your natural hair. Do a twist out. Wash it. Whatever. Don’t look like Tarzan or George of the jungle. Americans already think we are from the jungle. What will they think when they see you looking unkempt? Please save us and our reputation.

2. Team white -- typically after wearing a white shirt or white pants once, they're stained. You have to wash them. Now, if you wash whites with other colors, whites will likely be stained. It will now turn to orange or brown. Or maybe the rest of the shirt will be white and then the armpit part will be brown because you’ve been wearing it over and over without washing it. No!

3. Team eye boogers -- Please wash your face in the morning. Some people go as far as taking a selfie and adding hash tag "I woke up like this." Hash tag "flawless." Ain't nothing flawless about you! Please, the first thing to do before coming out to interact with other human beings is wash your face and brush your teeth. So unless there’s an emergency, or there’s an ambulance outside your door waiting to carry you to a hospital, do not come out of your house without washing your face. There's a difference between looking natural and looking dirty.

4. Team tallons -- Unnecessarily long and dirty nails. Then the nails start harboring all kinds of bacteria, virus, fungi. Hand sanitizers don’t replace washing hands with soap and water. If you wash your hands regularly, dirt won’t gather under your nails. Trim your nails if you can’t maintain long nails.

5. Team smelly. 

 a. Ladies, hairy/smelly armpit. Why? Ladies, shave your armpit. And there’s nothing cool about wearing a sleeveless top or dress and your armpit looks like animal fur. And please use deodorants too.

b. Smelling like food -- Like fish, goat, jollof rice. We are Africans, and we cook with spices. But shut your bedroom doors when you’re cooking so that the smell of food doesn't stick on your clothes. And occasionally open the window and let fresh air in so that you won't choke in the smell of your own food. Don't smell like garlic at the gym. Don't smell like jollof rice at church!!