Some of you saw a sneak peak of the new ‘Adventures’ website when it went up for a couple of hours over the weekend. This website is radically different from what we have had to date. …
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I found my first Mills and Boon book at age eight. Someone had abandoned a bunch of dog-eared, moth-eaten, mouldy romance novels in a box in the corner of my house. When I landed upon them …
(Thanks Nnenna Marcia for suggesting ‘Media Adventures’ to describe the publicity work we do for Adventures) Ghana: This evening I will be a guest on KSM’s ‘Thank God its Friday’ which airs at 9:30pm on Metro …
Dear God, please let me be fertile. I am 20 years of age. I had a myomectomy two months ago. Dear God, please let me be fertile. I have always had painful periods. I have always …
This is what he asked me as he traced the silky smoothness that had pooled beneath the bend of my knee and was dripping down the back of my calf. “Wet enough to make you feel …
“Hey” was what I whatsapp’s him just after midnight. I don’t even know why I was whatsapp’ing him. I had asked him several times why he would always contact me after the midnight hour even though …
As a mother, there are some statistics that stiffen my spine and propel me into a state of extra vigilance. It’s estimated that 1 in 4 women in America have – or will – experience some …
We’re having our very first ‘Adventures’ event as part of Accra[dot]Alt’s Talk Party series this Friday, 29th March at the Passions Cafe in Osu, Accra. A couple of writer friends and poets who may or may …
Malaka has asked me to give a ‘blow by blow’ account of how we (and I really feel this is a collective effort from everyone who contributes to Adventures – those who read, comment, and our …
As most of you know, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women was nominated for three categories in the Ghana Social Media Awards/BlogCamp 2013 earlier this year. The categories were “Best Blog”, “Best Activist Blog” and …