TweetWhen I think of nationalism, I think of Virgina Woolf's words - "As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world." I too find that there is a tension between the terms 'nation' and 'woman'. Nevertheless, having contributed to the New York Forum [...]

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TweetIn a much debated OpEd last week by former conservative MP, Louise Mensch, Mensch defiantly declares that intersectionality is bollocks and that she for one, has "no intention of checking her privilege". Mensch went on to hold this intersectional bollocks culpable for "the modern feminist movement [...] wasting most of its time in frenzied internal debate about [...]

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Tweet This post is an extract from a Q&A by sixty7 Architecture Road, a Canadian site devoted to the built environment, which asked four individuals, from various professional backgrounds, and from different parts of the globe, to give answers to the question What role can women play in helping to shape their built environment? Read [...]

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TweetIn the lead up to the short list announcement for the Nobel Prize in Literature on 30 May, headlines this week brought to the fore the obsession that some people have with the Nobel Prize in Literature being awarded to the late Chinua Achebe. For years, the pre-announcement period has seen speculations demands as to whether the [...]

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TweetI am glad to share that I have won the "Blogger of the Year" award at the Women4Africa Awards. The awards, which took place on 26 May 2013, was described as "the most honourable event for African's by Africans ever in the UK". Another attendee said "No organisation in Europe has ever created a platform to celebrate [...]

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TweetI was fourteen the first time I was molested. It was an incident that (in hindsight) ushered me into the awareness that womanhood was in many ways going to be quite the challenge. I was walking home after school, this was in Malmo, Sweden, where I lived at the time. As I approached the last [...]

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TweetThe world has never been as patriarchal as it is today. I'm not claiming that individual societies don't treat their women better than they did previously, but in the globalised, interconnected world we live in, we can no longer consider issues in an isolated fashion. So as we now consider the situation of women everywhere, [...]

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I am happy to announce that I have won the "Outstanding Achievement in Media" award at the African Diaspora Awards which took place on 2 May 2013. The African Diaspora Awards (ADA) ceremony is an event which pays tribute to African success across all walks of life; emphasising achievement and highlighting inspirational role models in the fields [...]

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If the government passes a proposal that bans miniskirts, Uganda may soon join the list of countries to restrict women from making independent choices about what they wear. If the bill, which has been proposed by (insert drumroll) the minister of ethics, Simon Lokodo, is passed, women who fail to abide may be sentenced to a [...]

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Conversations with women who empower is a quarterly interview series where women of African heritage share their views on work and life. The series highlights women whose work empowers and inspires in its skilfulness, ethos, creativity and impact and who also are women that I can picture myself having a tête-à-tête with. I'm delighted to feature Precious [...]

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