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Continue exploring reflective musings and critical essays grounded in African realities.

1 December 2025

The currency of power: Economic violence as the invisible chain

We are taught to recognise violence in the bruise, the broken bone, the shouted threat. But we are less adept at tracing its outlines in an empty purse, a stolen business profit…

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Gender & power

1 December 2025

The architecture of silence: How we built a world where violence thrives

What sound does a silenced woman make in a society that calls her suffering peace? We inherit cultural artefacts as wisdom. We rarely examine them as the foundational concrete o…

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Life & culture

20 November 2025

What if Your Day Off is Just Another Shift?

The Hidden Burden of Domestic Labour What if your "day off" is just another shift? What if the rest you desperately need is being stolen by work you do not even call work? When…

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Research & methods

19 November 2025

What if our data lies? African feminist methods for researching the invisible

What if our most trusted research methods are not just flawed, but actively harmful? What happens when the very tools we use to understand poverty and work systematically erase…

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Research & methods

18 November 2025

Research that misses everything that matters

What happens when our research documents women's empowerment while systematically erasing their oppression? My first consultancy assignment taught me how research can miss every…

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Research & methods

15 November 2025

When research becomes violence

What is the purpose of research? Is it to generate academic publications? Is it to catalogue problems? Or is it to create wish lists for donors? We must think carefully about th…

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Life & culture

13 November 2025

The water and the clay ancestral wisdom

What does it mean to truly drink? Not just to swallow, but to receive water as our bodies are meant to receive it? We have traded this essential purity for convenience. We store…

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Research & methods

12 November 2025

Beyond the data: Research methods that understand women's lives

A few years ago, I was privileged to evaluate a women’s economic empowerment programme. I will never forget Adanna's face when she handed in her loan repayment. For months, she…

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Life & culture

10 November 2025

The soul in our hands

You are African. How many African outfits do you own? I can still hear the steady hum of my mother's sewing machine. I remember coming in from playing outside and finding a new…

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Life & culture

9 November 2025

Nature's equation: Living by seasonal rhythms

Where do the stories come from? They whisper from the morning message of a friend remembering shared laughter. They echo in the memory of a failed meeting that taught me more th…

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Gender & power

8 November 2025

The unnamed feminists: Doing the work without the label

I have been conducting feminist research almost all my working life. However, I kept saying I am not a feminist. I never explicitly indicated this approach in my methodology sec…

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Life & culture

6 November 2025

Building a communal home: Our shared space to heal and grow

What does true sanctuary feel like in a world that never stops demanding? Where can we be both strong and vulnerable without judgement? How do we build spaces that honour our ne…

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