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, …
Tag: Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women
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 …