culture – Becoming The Muse

Of Dreads: The New Formal

20 Jul 202221 Jul 2022

Guest Article Dreads: The New Formal What constitutes a formal haircut? Sometime ago there was an outroar on social media about a google search result which showed black men with…

Kitchen Diaries

Of The Politics Of Feeding Your Guests

"Show me how you feed your guests and I will show you who you are." A wise person in history should have said this, seeing I have said this that…

Of Coffee With Sarura Kids

If you were having coffee with me, we would be catching up with Gogo Alice and the team from Sarura Kids. Sarura Kids is a channel that teaches kids (and…

Of Beaton’s Cut: Philisa Creatives QnA

19 May 202120 May 2021

Philisa Creatives invited me to a Twitter Chat conversation on heritage, culture and language!. https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/1393930357439881217?s=20 If you are familiar with Twitter, then you know how the tweet limit imposes a…

Of The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi’s Wives

9 May 20219 May 2021

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives; a fiction debut by Nigerian author and poet Lola Shoneyin first published 2010. The book explores family dynamics and polygamy in ‘modern’ day…

Of Jah Prayzah’s Kwayedza Lyrics And Translation

28 May 202029 May 2020

Kwayedza is the 15th track on Jah Prayzah’s album Hokoyo. Kwayedza means Dawn or Sunrise. This track opens with a distinctive mbira instrumental and you can almost feel it lull…

Awards and Challenges

Of Mermaids And Traditions

Growing up everything I knew about mermaids, I had learnt from fairy-tales cartoons, The Little Mermaid Nice young ladies just don't - swim around rescuing people in the middle of…

Defining Moments

Of My Ancestry And The Heritage In My Roots

25 Sep 201826 Sep 2018

Avuxesheni avuxeni (hello hello) I believe Africa is rich with creativity, legends and history deep like the roots of a giant tree. Come sit with me by the fire, where…

Defining Moments…

Of Somebody Else’s Problem

Of somebody else’s problem An SEP (Somebody else's problem) is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody…

Of Coffee and the 2018 UNESCO Global Report

21 May 201821 May 2018

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell I attended the launch of 2018 Global Report of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the…

Awards and Challenges…

Of Religion, Culture And The Divide Between

From before Christianity made its way to the African Soil, we have ultimately always believed in God, A Supreme Being, The Creator. Traditionally we believe that the souls of our…

Of A Shark In A Suit

11 May 201611 May 2016

Genre: Suspense Duplicitous; the word left a bitter taste in his mouth that all the finest whiskey in the world could not wash out. He was not duplicitous, he was…