Blogs & Updates
100 Days of African Fashion
By Vivienne Amijee Yesterday was the final day of the 100 days campaign of celebrating African print, African designers, African fabric, African jewellery/accessories, make up and everything of African fashion. The ceremony was graced by fashion lovers who had...
Do Women Issues Have Value?
By Wanjiru Kihusa About a month ago I attended a training session on Op-ed writing. It was at Pawa254 in Nairobi and was dubbed ‘Sauti Ya Dada’ which loosely translates into the voice of women. I had an amazing time meeting women writers who were passionate about the...
‘Thread Of Gold Beads’ – Book Review
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron When I found out that one of our ElleAfrique readers and supporters was also a published author, I was ecstatic. Nike Campbell-Fatoki is the author of ‘Thread of Gold Beads’, a novel which she kindly mailed to me and also autographed. This...
Another Day of Leaving It All Behind
Zamira had been awake for a while. She couldn’t make out for how long, but from the gentle rays of sunlight peaking through the darkness of the sky; she knew early morning was approaching. It was normal for her to stay up late. She wondered how she still managed to...
Sweat Your Way Up
By Maria Dombaxi Young African students, graduates and undergraduates living abroad are told to go back home. They’re told that Africa is the future, and they’re told that they can help change their countries. Young European graduates are told to try their luck in...
Smoothies of Life
By Ozoz Sokoh I came to smoothies when I could not eat. Not for lack of appetite but for the pain of toothache. Toothache. Heartbreak. Two pains I cannot fathom or explain. And now that I'm done with the pain of an impacted wisdom tooth, and can eat again.....I come...
Broken Glass
It was my twenty-second birthday. I had never conceived the thought of being a mother of two at this age. In high school, I was known for being a feminist, an advocate for what I had called “unmanned independence.” “Zainab and her husband are coming for dinner...
Homemade Pineapple Juice: From Head to Tail
The fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the fruit. This is up my alley - the desire to explore the entirety of a fruit. From skin to core and many fruits lend themselves beautifully to this. This desire, this knowledge comes from my father. My late father who...
Abused Women
By Maria Dombaxi Life isn’t exactly white or black. Sometimes it’s grey and other times its blue, life is complicated. You can tell a woman to put her life in the back burner to make her marriage work, but how do you tell a woman to leave a man she gave up her life...