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"Le Bouquet de Persil" de Claude Batho, Paris, 1980.

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Model and photographer, Monde Mase, identifies the way manhood has been constructed as a way to signify the assumption that men have to be protectors and providers, which in many cases can become a problem. The expectations on men to have a legacy of rich financial history in order to advance is one thing that Mason highlights in he’s responses, paying close reference to being a model and in the fashion industry, and how these expectations bring about entitled behavior by men towards others who they provide for. “We are portrayed as people that have no fault. That don’t need to answer any questions. When it comes to women we definitely don’t need to answer any questions. If your better half is asking where you’re going to, if you’re providing you don’t have to answer that question. It’s kind of like the woman is out of line when she asks questions.” MOTHO KE MOTHO KA BATHO #manhood #breakingbarriers #blackmanhood #whatismanhood #africanmen #menspeakup #consciousness #blacklivesmatter #southafrica #Africa #mothokemothokabatho #Batho

Singer and songwriter, Leon Hwacha, highlights the importance of reconstructing what makes a good father because the current expectations placed on men have created destructive ideas around fatherhood. He believes that there is need to involve intersexionality when dealing with blackness as a discourse. “The problem with discourse of blackness in our communities is that we are trying to homogenize the black experience. We expect the black experience to be the same throughout. It’s a lot more than that but we refuse to acknowledge that. Even when we push forward black rhetoric to this white world we refuse to acknowledge that blackness is more complex than what it appears to be. We refuse to investigate it through our cultural practices. We don’t make films about the multi-dimensionality of blackness. We make and consume your Tyler Perry films and Empires to represent blackness. We need to move to a point where within ourselves as black people we represent ourselves as more than just black. I’m not just black, I acknowledge that I am black but I’m not just black. The locus of my identity is not vested in the fact that I am black. It is vested in a whole load of other aspects and dimensions of me. I am black, I am a musician, I am male, I am a feminist. I Am. I just AM. I refuse to accept that I am a one dimensional creature. I’m different people at different times, according to the context. If I need to be a black feminist then I will be but if I need to be a queer feminist I will be one. I shouldn’t be faulted for that.” MOTHO KE MOTHO KA BATHO #manhood #breakingbarriers #blackmanhood #whatismanhood #africanmen #menspeakup #consciousness #blacklivesmatter #southafrica #africa #mothokemothokabatho #Batho

Electrical Engineer, Nakhjavani Mulumba, shares his understanding of what really makes up manhood: Ubuntu, respect. Nakhjavani is from Congo and his mother tongue is Chiloba yet he speaks Swahili. This is significant because it is symbolic of him embracing not just his own culture but other African cultures, which he believes, is key to African men and women finding solidarity and not giving in to xenophobia, black hate and other inferiority complexes that are results and consequences of colonialization. “For me, the change starts from helping each other and supporting each other. We must not look at each other as black men from different country, we must just see each other as black men ALL from Africa. Africa can move forward from there.” MOTHO KE MOTHO KA BATHO #manhood #breakingbarriers #blackmanhood #whatismanhood #africanmen #menspeakup #consiousness #blacklivesmatter #southafrica #africa #mothokemothokabatho #Batho