Introduction I, like many other ethnic females, have a complex relationship with ‘mother’, not just the word, but the person. I have felt many things for her, anger, hatred,...
Four years don waka but here I am in the same place. Against themselves, my thoughts still race in the region of my mind. But who I am now...
The stories told of how votes don’t count, of how a group of maniacal old men seat in a dark room pulling the strings of the political landscape, of...
Home no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your...
I read The Purity Myth years ago. Sometime between the ages of 16 and 19, Jessica Valenti put a name to the not-so-distant phenomenon I recognised growing up. The...
I was staring out the window into the night, lit by the dim, almost romantic street lights, watching the nightlife from the top of my tower where I’ve chosen...
I was sitting in a hotel room with my father, still buzzing from the fun of a family night out, when Boris Johnson announced that ‘we should be prepared...
Fine dining doesn’t necessarily come to mind when people think about African food. Our continent’s food is one of the least explored globally, and it is rare to find...
Decolonization is about understanding that our realities, and everything we consider the norm and acceptable, are made up by westernisation. Our idea of fun, families, economics and even love...
Kush, Maryjane, Reefer, Pot, and Grass are a few of the many names for the controversial drug cannabis. For some, cannabis is a Godsend, a natural plant helping people...
This article is mainly a compilation of works and essays from Alok Vaid Menon. I cringe and flinch every time I hear statements like “be a man”, “man up”,...
I think it’s about time we had this conversation. What happens when we treat culture as immutable? Society fails to develop; people cannot evolve, forcing everyone to adapt their...
PART 1 AVAILABLE HERE PART TWO: Religion and suffering ‘Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions....
“A religion that would be universal does not and cannot exist because any and every religion necessarily expresses a particular experience and worldview.” -Amen-Ra This argument has been made...
*[Please note that the author speaks mainly about Christianity because this is what the author has had a personal connection to. It is also the largest religion in the...