DEAR CONTENT CREATOR, CAN WE TALK? #WINTERABC2020
If I could advise any African writer, I would not let my advice be void of praise and admiration. I would tell them how proud I am of them that…
If I could advise any African writer, I would not let my advice be void of praise and admiration. I would tell them how proud I am of them that…
Day-11 Proverbs in your vernacular and their meaning. I started laughing when I saw the topic for day 11. I love it when especially our elders speak and they lace…
I have typed, deleted, and retyped for the hundredth time now. This is definitely an uncomfortable topic. Simply because I can not talk about what is becoming without telling where…
In 2018, in a conversation with my girls, I opened up about the mental battle I have been in and was still fighting. We cried and did all the cute stuff girly girls do and that eased my pain in ways I am yet to understand.
If only I had done that earlier, I kept thinking, liberation from all the mental stuff would have been faster. Then I thought about the reason I was silent and I remembered I lived in a community that perfection was the order of the day.
Through all my years as a girl who battled insecurities and other mental health issues, I had not one person to look to or reach out to, so being open about my struggle seemed so out of place.
By grace, I came across the likes of Jammie Grace, Janette _itz, and Jackie Hill who made me understand and appreciate my journey, and for once I felt my journey mattered and my difference was OK, and most importantly I got to know that I was not alone. I finally had someone to quote and say ‘oh this person also experienced this and did this’. (more…)
With everything that is happening in the world right now and even in my personal space, only one thing seemed right to do. That was to go off, shut down…