We want it all….. all of it.
On April 7th, 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first black woman in the history of America to serve in the United States supreme court as associate Justice. For days, her speech has been ringing in my head. Of the many things she mentioned, she thanked her husband for being very supportive, and […]
WHY ARE WE IN A HURRY?
You must wonder… what a question? And i’ll ask again. Why the heck are we in a hurry? Speaking from a mental health perspective, i speak with all honesty. I know atleast 6 people who have contemplated suicide in the last 2 months, i know atleast 10 or so people struggling with depression and i […]
Borrowing from the Tanzania Traditions.
Children are loved, but they are not invited is a famous statement that you will come across on many wedding or traditional ceremony invitations in Tanzania. I have for a long time reserved my comments about weddings and other marriage ceremonies and the expectations they come with. Over the holidays, i learn’t about how our […]
Dear Girl Child, you have earned it
They used to say that the worst thing that could happen to the girl child was not to get married, but I’m confident to say that the worst thing that could happen to the girl child is the lack of the luxury to choose.
The Meatyness of Meat
Goat meat, cow meat, chicken, pork, shark meat, rabbit meat, fish, donkey meat, hippo meat, are the meats i remember to have eaten. I swallowed all except shark meat. Yes, i weighed between an experience and a gag reflex embarrassment. I chose safety. While visiting Ethiopia, my friends mentioned how starstruck they were by how […]
Tales of Sickle cell Disease in a Northern Uganda children’s ward.
Knowledge is power, and ignorance is not necessarily bliss.
SHORT HAIR/ NATURAL HAIR/ AFRICAN HAIR
African hair possesses quite the characteristics if you ask me. For any one who has grown African hair and kept it natural, they’ll tell you of the very many factors with which its consistency is determined. Everyone I know that has natural hair has had that day of frustration where the hair just won’t get […]
TAKAYASU ARTERITIS IN PREGNANCY
During Med school, we studied about some rare disease. TAKAYASU arteritis happened to be among one of those diseases that kept me thinking. Till during my internship while on night call and a patient came in with everything confusing to me. After reading , investigations and consultations, we came to actually identify the cases as […]
THINGS SCHOOL NEVER TAUGHT US
By the time we are 25, many people are done with campus, including the bigger fraction of those who do long courses like medicine or law. one day we are students of very different subjects, the next day we are supposed to start living responsibly and doing all the things right. There’s no excuse for […]