Blogs & Updates
My Women’s Day Wish List
Article written by Likeleli M. Monyamane. Yayyyyy!!! It’s August again, it’s Women’s Month. On the 9th of August, we celebrated women’s day. My social media timelines were filled with colourful posters advertising different Women’s Events and Conferences. From...
Tropical Savoury Salad – Plantain Salad Imoyo
By Ozoz Sokoh For a few years now, I’ve been aware of the connection between Nigeria and Brazil, and how cultures and cuisine were transported, exported to South America during the centuries of the slave trade. Evidenced in particular dishes, some revered - like...
Girl-on-Girl Hate
By Attiya Karodia A young girl comes home one day from school almost in tears with a decision based on nothing more than an aesthetic goal, to be 'curvy'. The girls told her that she had chicken legs, that she was a toothpick, an ironing board, a frame structure, so...
Personal Mission Statement – Got One?
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron ‘The thing I learned is that you don’t invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were’ – Viktor Frankl If you know me, you know that I am all about personal and spiritual growth. I recently picked up a book that I read years...
Miscarriages: The Monster No One Talks About
By Wanjiru Kihusa Last November I lost a baby. I was 20 weeks pregnant at the time. After 3 days in hospital and countless pain killers and antibiotics, I went back home. One week passed and the reality of the situation hit home. Every time I went to take a shower,...
Women, Love Thyself
The phenomenon of getting bigger body parts keeps exploding with each passing year, with more and more females wanting to make their derrière bigger or to alternate any other body parts thanks to the likes of Kim Kardashian and others worldwide. All this is due to...
Women’s Growing Love for Football
Over the last decade female participation in official sports has grown quite significantly, and football has been no exception. Through growing competitions such as the female Champions League and even the female FIFA World Cup, women are now taking to football as a...
‘The Land of Honey’ – Book Review
"Although life seems to offer all Zimako could ask for at home, it is fraught with underlying political insecurities. Dissatisfied with the status quo, he desires something more and is determined to find a new life for his family in Canada. When they arrive in Canada,...
Let’s Save Africa – Together!
If you are anything like me, chances are you are a very lucky woman! You have lived a happy middle class type of life in Africa. You graduated from a private high school and went to university in Europe, Canada or The United States. And it’s while being outside of...