We caught up with the ladies who make up the African Women Association to find out about their amazing Awards as well as the work they do in order to get the low down on the work they are doing promoting African women regionally and globally. Let us start with semantics, with so many different […]
By Untapped I have heard there’s a secret place where you keep your feelings hidden under honey jars to keep them sweet. I have heard that if the jars are ripped open, eternal love will over flow from streams in your heart, to water all the dried paths that you fear to walk on. A […]
by Akosua It was night, and the fan was whirring loudly against the sound of insects outside my window. I groaned and rolled in my bed, pressing my hand between my thighs. My night dress was pushed up to my hips, and I was horny as hell. Abena was in town. That’s all I could […]
By Caroline Araes You have me in this sexual daze, taking my thoughts way beyond the limit. I don’t know what it is you do to me. Miles away yet have my body reacting to the words you send to me. You have my nipples hardening to the thought of your hands touching my bare […]
By Cosmic Yoruba/ @cosmicyoruba I know I have written on Efunsetan Aniwura before (where I horribly misspelled her name for which I have been told off *haha*) but once is not enough! The more I learn about this amazing Egba woman, the more I am amazed. I went from not knowing anything about her, to learning that she […]
By Icess Floyd I’m looking to see if I missed something. If I forgot something. I know time is ticking, so before you go I have these words to say because this love that will never go away. Even if you don’t think I’m right for you and we’re not meant to be, this deep […]
By Kagure Mugo Vagazzling, waxing, scented soaps that cause thrush and putting ping pong-like exercise balls in your vajajay during staff meetings. These are just a few of the ways humanity has decided that the vagina should be harassed outside of the joy of periods and child birth. We live in a world where one can […]
By Fayth/ @faythnw “Women in this culture live with sexual fear like an extra skin. Each of us wears it differently depending on our race, class, sexual preference and community, but from birth we have all been taught our lessons well. Sexuality is dangerous. It is frightening, unexplored, and threatening… Many of us become feminists because of […]
By Anima Adjepong / @amankrado “Is this one of your daughter’s friends?” I overheard a woman I did not know ask in a language I only vaguely understand. To the woman’s relief, her interlocutor, let’s call her Auntie Ama, responded no. “Good, because we do not want her kind here,” she said. This exchange was […]
By Juanita/ @JuavanZyl *Trigger warning: self-harm, suicide, abuse, dysphoria,* I was born a healthy young boy (or so it seemed) in Bloemfontein, South Africa on 1 July 1979. My first ever memories of being different were from age 3. I was not interested in my toys and always ended up in my mother’s closet, wearing her […]