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Wear Your Big Girl Panties
By Felly Oyuga I am going through my Whatsapp and come across a post in one of our groups. The post is about a woman who posted on Facebook that her husband watches porn with their six-year-old son. She then claims to cry about it daily. Everyone's typical reaction...
Tuning In and Out of Sync With Our Emotions
By Stacy Kendi 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 is only right for me to always use my emotions in predicting an outcome or...
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 autour de moi devenait de plus en plus brumeux et...
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. Une communauté qui ne cesse à vouloir amoindrir sa valeur. Et toute une famille...
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, I assumed the term was for a lady that dresses well, takes time to care about...
Surviving This Thing Called Adulting
By Josephine Amoako 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 in their shoes. Instead of having to endure...
Don’t Put Us In The Same Box
Women don’t have to like each other Women don’t share the same privileges Women don’t share the same ideologies Women don’t want the same things Our struggles are wired differently And we deserve to express them all. By Afia Kwakyewaa Owusu-Nyantakyi I remember...
Are Wedding Rings Necessary?
By Lydia Bonyo I woke up one morning thinking about wedding rings. I kid you not, I didn’t dream about weddings or proposals or anything wedding related the previous night, I wake up with the most random of thoughts most mornings. A lot of the western wedding related...
A Tribute To My Secondary School Life
There was no air Every time we rose above the tide They shoved us back into the dark water They shook, shook, shook And tightened the lid The rules The regulations The law Wearing ankle length socks Underneath your floor length skirt Having long or plaited hair...