To be born African means to have been born on the African continent, which is the second-largest and second-most populous continent in the world. Africa is a continent with a rich history and diverse cultures, with over 54 countries and more than 1.3 billion people.
Being born African can mean…
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…
According to the United Nations today, there are more than 26 million refugees and 4.4 million asylum seekers globally. So what does it mean to be a refugee? To leave behind everything you know to be home, to lose one’s identity and to be caught in between, with no…
We really need to reconnect with our roots to nature and listen to the elders around the world. I call them living libraries because they actually know most of the things that we don’t know. They have this knowledge, but they don’t know who to share this knowledge with….
Not too long ago I wrote an article about how being raped as a toddler still affects me today. Many months have passed since that article and the number of emails and messages I receive to this day astounds me. Not because I am surprised by how so many…
As a heterosexual black woman of colour, I, like millions of others who share my skin tone and or gender, I have moved through the world in a way that often feels oppressive and difficult to get through. However if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersexual, a-sexual, queer, transgender…
