Focusing on your own happiness means prioritizing your well-being and taking intentional actions that promote feelings of joy, contentment, and fulfillment. It involves acknowledging your needs, values, and desires, and making choices that align with them. Focusing on your own happiness also means taking responsibility for your own emotions…
Growing up, I was always treated differently. I wasn’t allowed to play sports, and my mom always forced me to wear thick sweaters. No matter how hot I felt, I could never take it off because my mom did not want me to catch pneumonia.
Irrespective of the precautions I…
I am Biankie. I’m a young black African woman. In my community, women have no say, women are not given the opportunity to be leaders, and a community where domestic violence is the norm.
This is my story.
Biankie, The Black African Woman Against Domestic Violence
I was born into a family…
African women are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change. They have contributed the least to the crisis but will continue to experience most of the climate change impacts. These impacts vary from crop failures to water scarcity and conflict for natural resources. This aggravates existing socio-economic issues,…
I DON’T WANT TO BE
I don’t want to be a wife.
A housewife, working wife, whatsoever wife!
It’s not that I simply don’t want to lose my life.
That is also a point, but that’s beside the point.
It’s simply because being a wife is as complicated as coding,
More complex than hacking and…
I have always had the urge to go back home to Malawi and be part of the builders of my community and the country at large. Though born and raised in Zimbabwe by Malawian parents, my love for Malawi developed when I arrived there in 2004, still a child…
Poems by Precious K
Desire
The things I desire
They interrogate me day and night,
Till I plead guilty to not pursuing them.
Guilty!
The things l desire temper with my peace of mind like unsettled debt.
Affirmed
You are hope, a light in life.
An emblem of strong women with unbreakable spirits.
You are powerful, soulful, the heavens…