When did you hear the word “fuck” for the first time? I heard it for the first time in Sunday school when I was an innocent eight-year-old girl (yes, I will start therapy soon). An impish …
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On Sunday, 8th January I popped into my local Shell Shop to buy some plantain chips, and saw that the latest edition of BBC Focus on Africa magazine was out. I had been recently featured in …
Happy New Year! In a few days this blog will be 3 years old, and what an exciting 3 years it has been. When I started this blog with Abena I did not anticipate how popular …
You may remember my previous post about the doctor who wanted to give me a baby through my knees? Well I found another Dr who is really nice, easy to talk to, and doesn’t want to …
It was a pleasant mid-summer afternoon and I was walking through the city centre with a colleague when I asked whether our co-worker Tom – fashionable, stick thin, skinny jeans-wearing, long fringe-flipping, gay and proud Tom …
[I wrote this post on Friday, 21st October but didn’t get to put it up until today] I dressed like Ms Haversham this morning. Or at least what I imagined Ms Haversham would dress like. …
And exercise seems to be loving me back! Women across the continent are getting more involved in fitness routines than ever before. Many cultures in Africa put a premium on women with fuller figures, sometimes going …
I hate my periods. Full stop. I just don’t get it. I wish I could be all earth mother’ish about the sustenance of life flowing out of my body but I just can’t. Periods suck. Big …
I’m a born again virgin. Well that’s how my friend E described me a few weeks ago ‘cos I seem to be going through the longest sexual drought that I have ever experienced. Now I’m very …
The horizontal line dance. Hide the rainbow roll. Biblical knowledge. Fucking/Fekking/Focking. Science. Morning Glory. Screwing. Sugar. Banging. Boning. Doing it. De t’ing. Copulation. Coitus. Intercourse. Brushing. Whatever you call, it feels great! By the way, what …