Health
Do You Love You?
The bible teaches us to die to self and to lay down our lives for others, so every time someone mentioned the word self-care or self-love, I would cringe because I thought they are promoting […]
Thoughts & Reflections
Culture
Being Powerful Is A State Of Mind
By Naide Obiang This morning, like few of them lately, is full of uncertainties. But, for philosopher Bob Proctor, “each day holds something good for us. We just have to find it.” The secret is, […]
Empowerment
Tuning In and Out of Sync With Our Emotions
This is coming from a corner where I began to wonder, “how can one tune out of their own emotions?” Considering that I am a woman who can never be parted from my emotions; it […]
Culture
Il M’a Vraiment Laissé
By Naide Obiang « Pat s’est marié le week-end dernier. Tu savais ? » La nouvelle arriva enfin. J’ai rapidement conclu la conversation et me suis assise au coin du canapé ; offusquée et désorientée dans l’espace qui […]
Culture
L’Africaine à l’Occident Face aux Attentes d’un Monde Hypocrite
By Naide Obiang Elle ouvre les yeux à… Un monde qui cherche toujours à la manipuler, comme un pion à un jeu de Ludo. Une société qui insiste à vouloir l’immortaliser en statue de plaisir. […]
Fashion & Style
The Question of Slay Queens
Social media has brought about many concepts and popularised many words. In recent times, one of those words or term, in this case because it is two words is, slay queen. At first, for me, […]
Lifestyle
Surviving This Thing Called Adulting
If there’s one thing I wasn’t prepared for, it’s this thing called adulting. I remember seeing young adults smartly dressed in their formal attires and me in my oversized school uniform and wishing to be […]
Development
You Don’t Have To Be Like Her
Today I caught myself in the middle of a thought None about me and all about her She had it all. She had done it all There was no coin she hadn’t turned No soil […]
Love & Sex
Does “For Better For Worse” Apply in Relationships?
I am a hopeless romantic and issues to do with relationship and marriage catch my attention quite easily. I believe in happy endings and “till death do us part” kind of commitments. However, through experience, […]
Thoughts & Reflections
Wives Need Competition to Step Up?
Yep, that is exactly what one Uber driver told me one night on a drive home. I was too exhausted to think, much less to have a conversation. According to him, wives become complacent in […]