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Stress Reducing Activities For You
By Grace Ancillar I was that girl that slouched on her chair at 10am, replied with a thousand GIFS that illustrated exhaustion every time someone asked how I was, and my job became a chore that made laundry seem like a breeze. My skin was complaining, my mood was...
Lessons Failure Taught Me
As the first week of quarantine set, I felt a deep sense of despair set in as my plans for the year began to fall like a house of cards. As weeks turned into months, I felt like a million butchers’ knives had sliced through every inch of my heart and served it up for...
A New Trend Of Silencing GBV Activists Erupts In South Africa
The year 2020 is indeed a mixed bag of disappointments, massive loss of lives due to COVID-19, but the silencing of Gender Based Violence activists in 2020 is saddening ever since the emancipation of women has become a rallying cry, in particular in these Southern...
Death – Musings
By Felly Oyuga They say life and death go together. I have always been fascinated by the dead, but not by the process of dying. That part scares me. The last breath. What does it feel like? Do you know you are dying? Are you scared? I expect I will close my eyes on...
Mind Your Own Business!
By Chido Chirumuta If anyone asks me one more time, I might just explode or say something rude. People just need to mind their own business! My mama raised me right, so I am sitting here trying to find a polite way to tell people to mind their business. A week after I...
Maîtresse d’un Homme Marié, Debrief Façon YIRI TV
Par Christelle Kamanan La saison de 2 la série sénégalaise Maîtresse d'un Homme Marié (MDHM pour les intimes) touche à sa fin. J'ai échangé avec Sylvia créatrice de YIRI TV, une chaîne YouTube. Cette jeune femme française, d’origine Martinico-camerounaise, y propose...
Black Lives Matter – A Story of The Unprivileged
June, what a month! News has been filled with images of marches worldwide, toppling of statues, discussions on subtle racism…Meanwhile, somewhere in Africa we look on and wonder how movements like Black Lives Matter really mean for us? Perhaps, it’s just me. However,...
For Those Who Can Not Tell Their Tales
By Eunice Tossy I always imagined how my mom would react to me telling her I was being sexually assaulted in our own home. To the extent that when I did, her response was good, but it wasn't what I had expected. She was mad the first night, but later on she handled...
Stop Killing Women
There has been a plethora of hashtags that took turns trending on various social media platforms - #ManAreTrash, #IamNext and so forth, with the intention to stop the madness and frightening numbers of women being killed each day, but the question remains. Are...