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…
“Protect women not Reputations” – Kirabo Nora, a Ugandan-African Feminist, once said. Women who speak up on their experiences of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment within their workplace have been mostly…
I was between the ages of 13-15 when I found the language for feminism. Specifically feminism within the African Women’s context. It happened somewhere between reading Buchi Emecheta, blogs from girls my…
I recently read a quote by Emily Mcdowell, it says: ““Finding yourself” is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not…
Before bell hooks wrote Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, she started a support group under the same name. At the time, she was a lecturer at a university and…
The UN led climate talks recently held in Madrid, Spain known as COP25, came at a very critical time as many people who are facing extreme weather conditions that puts both life,…