Current Affairs
How Will You Survive The Lockdown?
I can bet my Ray Ban sunglasses that each person on earth has a personal list of struggles: things that they fight to overcome each day. 2020, which for many of us was supposed to […]
Current Affairs
Current Affairs
What Can We Make of the Covid19 Days?
It’s a hard time, for all of us and everyone we know. We didn’t see this coming. Since the olden days of World War I and II, (which I have only read or watched movies […]
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N.E.S.T: Empowering Asylum Seekers & Refugees
Three weeks ago, at the invitation of Bridget Stratford, I visited North East Solidarity and Teaching (N.E.S.T) – a Newcastle University Students’ Union project. Bridget, who runs this wanted me to meet and share my […]
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Kidnapped in The Name of The Law
Note: The names in this article have been changed to protect the identity of the victims and their children, especially in cases of on-going custody trials. After a short-lived and turbulent marriage, Fadwa and her […]
Current Affairs
The Narrative of The African Woman
A lot of the stories told about the African woman do not portray her true self. This is usually because the story is single and comes from people who do not know her, nor care […]
Culture
Check Your Privilege
What is privilege? You might have heard about white privilege. Why are people talking about white privilege? If you follow anything to do with contemporary American politics, you will have heard that African American people […]
Culture
A Son to Calm My Nerves
By Amandla Karungi I stood in the kitchen, preparing supper, stirring something on the cooker, a dropped spoon in the sink and back to the cooker and as my mind came back to the same […]
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 […]
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The Unloved Daughters
We, the unloved daughters were all taught that mother is always right, hence why it takes a while for psychological and physical abuse by mothers to become understood by children. Sometimes it can be so […]
Current Affairs
The Great Battle of the Republican Palace
Exactly two months ago, Sudan’s peaceful revolution against 30 years of dictatorship was crowned by the establishment of the 1st civilian government in 3 decades. The victory came at a dear and painful price, with […]