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12 November 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Speaking about African feminism at the Global Feminism Symposium, University of Warwick

Speaking about African feminism at the Global Feminism Symposium, University of Warwick

I am currently in Lagos. I am working on projects with TV and Radio Continental and the STAR company/Seeing through the Arts collective who are using art and creativity to promote important causes in society. There is a similar reasoning behind the  MsAfropolitan Boutique, namely to use fashion and creativity to highlight the importance of the African [...]

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09 April 2011 ~ 11 Comments

No longer at ease

No longer at ease

The right words are on the tip of my tongue, the ones that will touch somewhere in people’s souls where yellow is yellow and can never be red. But I am not sure that I can write them yet. Maybe I first need to be less colour-blind myself. In the meantime what I do know [...]

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29 March 2011 ~ 11 Comments

African women writers and stories that raise awareness

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Writing down some of my new year’s resolutions earlier this year inspired me so much I’ve been maintaining the practice by making ‘new month’s resolutions’. In March my goal was to sleep more and as a result feel more energetic and reconnected with mother and father earth but I failed miserably. Instead March was a [...]

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24 February 2011 ~ 9 Comments

Ntozake Shange & Michaela Angela Davis on Feminism & More

Ntozake Shange & Michaela Angela Davis on Feminism & More

I get many emails especially from young women asking about feminism, and who inspired my feminism. In another post I quoted the poet Jessica Horn about her mothers influence on her feminism. And personally, her words resonate. I was raised by a woman that I have come to recognise as a revolutionary mother, who used the [...]

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04 February 2011 ~ 24 Comments

Dinner with 7 African feminists and why

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in·spi·ra·tion Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Thursday 03/02/11: Experienced lack of stimulation of the mind resulting in a low level of feeling towards activity = leth·ar·gy I’ve been feeling sluggish this week, and particularly yesterday. I tackled work assignments in the morning, went to an interesting [...]

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08 July 2010 ~ 4 Comments

‘Children of War’ Inspired by ‘Beasts of no Nation’ by Uzodinma Iweala

‘Children of War’ Inspired by ‘Beasts of no Nation’ by Uzodinma Iweala

I am remembering the night when the war is starting. Even before they are arriving to killing us the air is feeling sticky like okra and people are not happying. I am sensing that something is wrong but my mother and father is saying that everything will be fine. But if everything will be fine [...]

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