What does liberation look like if it doesn’t come with structural change? This is a question that many of us with election cycles coming up need to ask ourselves, especially before throwing…
My introduction to Toni Morrison’s body of work came at a much later stage in my life, I read her a fully formed adult. Reading her, the language she used, very familiar…
“I was never taught absolute silence. I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself silence.” – bell hooks, Talking Back In my…
It was 2014 when as I worked in my village of Mundri that I found out women there were not allowed to eat eggs and chicken. However, not all had obliged to…
Last week I quietly and quickly read through text correspondence as concerned women in a WhatsApp network I belong to mobilized to support a 55-year old woman who was brutally gang-raped by 15…
The pastor is young, wears well-fitting suits, a gold-coated neck chain, big flashy watch, pointed shiny shoes and has a bit of an American accent when he takes to the pulpit. He…
I first cast a vote in the Uganda presidential elections in 2016. That is not happening again. That exercise and what followed, made me realise elections in this country are a ceremony…
Silence, when it comes to sexual abuse and other gendered violence is one of our big challenges in Rwanda. It is the culture whereby people, especially women and girls, are afraid to…
“Know that we do not tell our stories to restore ourselves. We do not tell them to compare scars. We tell our stories because now we can…We tell our stories to repave…
The women of Lusaka Zambia will take a resilient leap into action this weekend to join various women worldwide in a march that has sparked what could be the beginning of a…