It is next week. I am slightly nervous but determined. I have given Dr. Amankwah a brief memory that is recurring in my mind, and now my eyes are closed, focusing on her voice that sounds distant. I am lying in the beige sleep chair hooked to a machine to monitor my heart rate while she conducts the hypnotherapy. “Just focus on the sound of my voice, Daniel. You’re safe. Nobody can harm you. How do you feel, Daniel?” “I …
Tag: Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women
PART 1 “I hate my mother.” The woman sitting on the beige antique chair across from me doesn’t show any reaction to my unusual announcement. She is a pretty woman in her late thirties, about 5ft9, …
Written By Oladoyin Alana In the bible, the wages of sin is death. Similarly, in the Yoruba society, a cheating female partner is rewarded with shame, trauma and in extreme cases, death! The woman’s pleasure could …
Written by Nyambura ‘Let everything happen to you. The beauty and the terror; just keep going; no feeling is final.’ Ranier Marie Rilke, JoJo Rabbit. It is 6.30 am, Thursday, in July. The sun is rising …
Boosted by her friends’ encouragement, Abena showed up in front of Senna’s door the next morning at 11 am. Since it was a Saturday, she knew that he would be up and about at the time …
“Can we take this slowly?” Abena pleaded, pushing at Senna’s chest. Senna pulled back, a mixture of hurt and bafflement on his face. “Slowly? Abena, we’ve been dating for a month now, and I have been …
Written by Kafui Offori If you missed Part I of this, you can read all about it right here! A huge thank you to all who made it for the festival, and for those who couldn’t, …
Written by Kafui Offori Welcome back from the holidays! It’s a new year and a new month, and as we continue to set our intentions and prepare for 2024, we would also love to take a …
Written by Audrey Obuobisa-Darko “Leviticus 23:27,” the boarding school chaplain at Aburi Holy Mother of Homosexual Correction School calls out. We crack the air with our seven-tailed whips. They make a communal whooshing sound, as though …
Written by Tawakalt Oseni Every now and then, social media inundates us with heartwarming images and videos of adorable children. There are kids, a couple of months old, all wrapped up for photoshoots, toddlers making the …
Que se passe-t-il lorsque deux personnes indépendantes à l’ego instable, qui ne se comprennent pas toujours, décident d’être dans une relation à distance? « Tu te souviens de la fois où tu es revenue des États-Unis …