Nzinga Bandida is an Ivorian-French multidisciplinary artist based in Abidjan. Her work aims at exploring black femininity through multiple disciplines and she is always looking to master new mediums that will serve as the canvas for …
Tag: Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women
Written by Adwoa Supi This is a personal statement of a young Ghanaian woman who was ashamed of her femininity because of the misogynistic environment she grew up in, and thus protested against her body for …
Written by _Soleil I don’t identify as straight or gay. I believe it’s way too early to be putting labels to my sexuality just yet. And this may shock people especially since I am a young …
(Special mention to those who lived in a time when ‘queer’ was an insult. We see you. Guess what, we took it back! Queer is ours and it means love & liberation & colour. Thank you! …
My baby brother and I I’ve been struggling to write this because he is such a private person, but he’s featured enough in my tweets and other social media to not be a stranger to anyone …
20/02/21 01:20 I’m neither drunk nor high, but I definitely have a buzz. I’ve had several shots of tequila and I’m pretty sure my lungs have forgotten what clean air tastes like. I can’t decide whether …
By Muthoni Njoki I have been single all the twenty-something years I’ve been living on this rock. This isn’t to mean that I haven’t dated people. After all, I am a parent to an amazing eight-year-old. …
I was in my first year of university when I owned my first toy. I was always that girl everyone knew to be sex-positive, open and free about sexual health and pleasure. So when a classmate …
I think of you when it rains. I think of you in so many indecent ways, in several lascivious ways that leave me hot with hunger despite the cool of the weather. I imagine it’s late …
At home, I treat myself to a glass of pinotage, a springbok carpaccio and avo salad. I giggle at the subconscious choice to have a light meal, something I would usually do if I had reason …