Thoughts & Reflections
Fatness Is Not Private
It’s the day after New Year’s Day and you decide to go see a gynaecologist. You do not have a milky discharge, you do not have lower back and abdominal cramps, your period is not […]
Month: March 2020
Thoughts & Reflections
The Lawyer Whose Mouth Never Moves
I was about 11 years old when I decided that I wanted to and would become a lawyer. My young mind pictured a confident female wearing fashionable suits and formal dresses with high heels, tossing […]
Current Affairs
N.E.S.T: Empowering Asylum Seekers & Refugees
Three weeks ago, at the invitation of Bridget Stratford, I visited North East Solidarity and Teaching (N.E.S.T) – a Newcastle University Students’ Union project. Bridget, who runs this wanted me to meet and share my […]
Culture
What If I Never Find Mr Right?
There might be other issues in the future that some of us are going to need exorcism for in order to comprehend and acknowledge, but I suppose this one doesn’t. Someone once said that “you […]
Feature
Maîtresse d’un Homme Marié, que Nous Réserve la Saison 2 ?
Pour les personnes qui n’ont pas encore vu la série : cet article ne contient aucun spoiler. Mars 2020, la vidéo bande-annonce de la saison 2 de la série sénégalaise Maîtresse d’un Homme Marié compte […]
Thoughts & Reflections
To Be, Or Not To Be?
“Don’t be surprised if I show up on your door with a baby in one hand and a suitcase in another,” I told my mother one windy August morning, because I was that modern African […]
Current Affairs
Kidnapped in The Name of The Law
Note: The names in this article have been changed to protect the identity of the victims and their children, especially in cases of on-going custody trials. After a short-lived and turbulent marriage, Fadwa and her […]
Culture
Cloak of Invisibility
By Amandla Karungi When I was younger, I was the shy one who always got left out and was never the favourite. Not the crowd favourite, nor the sisters’ favourite, not the Aunt’s favourite or […]