“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,…
I got a message on WhatsApp today from a young man. He was distraught. See, he had witnessed his mother being brutally assaulted by his father. He was traumatized, and angry, and…
Being a woman means always being on guard. Growing up, we are armed with safety tips. It’s almost a rite of passage to sit at your mother’s feet as she gives you…
I was 10 when I learned that Jeanine( not her real name) had died. She was my favorite neighbor. Jeanine was sweet, and everyone called her Auntie. Jeanine was married for 15…
I must be honest with you. I’ve been struggling to figure out what to write. My mind is foggy with too many stories of too much violence. Some subtle, some overt –…
“It is not difference which immobilises us, but silence. And there were so many silences to be broken” – Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You There is a silence that…