FGM: The Elephant In The Room

FGM: The Elephant In The Room

By Reem Gaafar Female Genital Mutilation is one those terrifying realities that is still practiced openly today, mainly in Africa and parts of Asia, although globalization and massive migration has carried the practice to parts of Europe, Australia and the Americas....
What’s Trust Got To Do With It?

What’s Trust Got To Do With It?

Article is by C.J Npowa If you happen to be in a relationship or have been in a relationship, you know that no relationship can survive without this fundamental, vital, unavoidable thing called “TRUST”. Below is my definition of the word T.R.U.S.T (Yes, I came up with...
Woman Know Thyself

Woman Know Thyself

“This at last is bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman, because from man this one was taken.” Adam- Genesis 2:23 Religion is the building block of much of the worlds sexism, because of course how can a woman truly be equal when she was...
Can we have it all?

Can we have it all?

We want everything but can we have it all? We want to be career women, wives and mothers. A little bit like Beyoncé who is one of the most successful female artists in the world and finds time to be a devoted mother to Blue Ivy and wife to Jay-Z. We want to have...
Youth -The Important Virtue

Youth -The Important Virtue

By Attiya Karodia While driving through a part of land that I remember so well as a child, I compared what I experienced back then to the way I perceive the world now, and the more I notice how my youth has faded, the sadder I become. The smell of the air out in the...
A Career Obsessed African Woman.

A Career Obsessed African Woman.

By Maria Dombaxi I recently got back home for the summer vacation, and had to go around greeting all my aunties, who may not be blood relations but I love them dearly. The usual conversation starter whenever I get back home is school, health and the duration of my...