Blogs & Updates
5 Feelings You’ll Experience With a New Relationship
Love is in the air in the month of February, and if you’ve just gotten into a new relationship, you’re probably experiencing a myriad of emotions. Transitioning from single-hood to being in a relationship isn’t always easy, especially if you’ve been single for a while...
Jigida and The Spring’s Last Drop (Part 1)
There lies my purse of cowries, shells and beads, strung and unstrung, my hero of a thousand years years. Is this the future I so looked forward to seeing? My hopes, imaginations, aspirations dashed. In the beginning: Sitting on a cane chair amidst an array of exotic...
Blame African Leaders Or …
Article is by C.J Npowa When I talk to most people in the diaspora about why they are so reluctant to return back home (wherever that is on the continent) and use their hard-earned intellect to contribute to rebuilding the continent one household at a time via...
Modahnik: Shop for DR Congo
Congolese born Kahindo Mateene is the founder and designer of Modahnik, a fashion house with a difference. According to Kahindo, a contestant in Season 12 of Project Runway, the MODAHNIK woman is a global nomad who views fashion as a creative expression of her...
St. Catherine of Bangui
On 23rd January, the transition Parliament in the Central African Republic elected Ms Catherine Samba-Panza as interim head of State to restore peace and order and spearhead the organization of free and fair elections in a bid to give some much-deserved relief to the...
Climbing Hills in Heels
Article written by Likeleli M. Monyamane. This will be my last week serving my articles as a trainee accountant. I am getting signed off at the end of the month and as with an end of any great journey, I am forced to reflect back on the past three years of my life...
Your Twenties
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. " - Thomas Szasz - Hungarian Psychiatrist and Academic I have recently been reading quite a few blogs and articles...
How To Improve Your Chances of Success
As I write this, I imagine myself making a confession. After all what is the best way to introduce myself? My name is Divine, and I am a Burundian who is too optimistic for my own good. I am excited to be joining this amazing list of women who are contributing daily...
Lupita Nyong’o: A Shining Star
By Attiya Karodia Every now and again the world is awestruck by a person, and this time is no different. Lupita Nyong'o is not just worth mentioning because of her talent or merely her skin colour, but rather because of the barriers in the traditional concept of...