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 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…
AfroWomenPoetry founded by Antonella Sinopoli narrates the stories of African women through poetry moving from country to country across Sub Saharan Africa. In collaboration with AfroWomenPoetry, SheEvolves invites you into the world of Ghana's female poets
Poem by Akosua Dufia Boakye
But How Can I Be Me?
I am not who I want to be
The…
Poem by Sarah Eno Obongha
Choose To Try Again
At times the hope of a river flows into a canal,
Draining away its current.
At times, the faith of the moon is covered by the cloud
Leaving its mouth silent, even when it screams out loud.
At times the strength of the rain is shadowed by…
That I would become a farmer was just not on the radar. I did not see this coming. I trained as a journalist at Rhodes university and went on to do a postgraduate diploma in advertising and marketing. After that, I worked in different marketing and public relations positions…
As someone who had sangomas (traditional healer) as grandparents, the idea of natural and alternative medicine has never been entirely new to me. The older I become, the more confident I am about traditional, natural and alternative routes for healing. My upbringing in Pretoria, South Africa gave me a…
According to the world health organization, by the end of 2020, there were an average of 37.7 million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Of those people estimated to have HIV, over 25.4 million were from the African region.
Today I had the privilege to chat with a…
For most young black girls living in remote rural and underdeveloped villages, dreams and goals seem arid and/or impossible to reach. I know that because I was once that young black girl whose dreams were clouded by the societal misconceptions of what a woman can and should be. Having…
Western medicine has become extremely popular. It is well known that such medicine is used for the slightest biological faults in efforts to restore some form of biological and physiological balance. The intake varies from headache medication to medication for chronic pain and for mental health related illnesses.
The indulgence…
