Current Affairs
All Hail the Single Mother!
This one is for the special humans! There are many of them out there. We all know at least one or two. We all live close to one.. We know her name. We have her […]
Development
Development
One Hell of a Year
The month of November has made me realize that 2019 is coming to an end and it has made me reflect on how the year has been. Although it often seems like life doesn’t change […]
Culture
The Unaddressed Pressure from the Society that All Women Face
I was at church one time, when a guy said, “you will find some women over confident which affects their lives negatively, women SHOULD be shy, and less confident, Women that go to the US […]
Development
The Happiness Theory
For three decades now, I am privileged to be alive and to have searched for happiness. What a great adventure it has been, and if God had to take me ten years back, I would […]
Culture
Life Lessons From An Uneducated Woman, and Her Skill Of Washing Saucepans
Growing up, my mother engraved in me the idea that the litmus test for being an Acholi woman is how “bright and shiny” your saucepans looked, after you washed them. She literally scared me into […]
Culture
The African Woman Gets Tired Too
I went on a mission trip to Arua in northern Uganda, and I got to see the terror and harm that war brings to us. I also got to see that when everything goes wrong […]
Development
Twenty Four
24 is obviously the age before 25. But it also is in a scary way, the age when it begins to dawn on you that you’re approaching quarter a century and have nothing you can […]
Current Affairs
How Effective Is The CSW in Advancing Women And Girls?
From the 11-22 of March 2019, the 63rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) recently convened in New York, United States for its annual session that focuses on the promotion and empowerment of women […]
Development
Why Are Women Their Own Worst Enemy?
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about. Trapped in patriarchal societies judged from all sides for what we wear, what we say, how we say it, where we go, what we think and […]
Culture
Being Powerful Is A State Of Mind
By Naide Obiang This morning, like few of them lately, is full of uncertainties. But, for philosopher Bob Proctor, “each day holds something good for us. We just have to find it.” The secret is, […]