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• Too afrocentric for you?

  I was recently interviewed for a TV programme, which I will write about in a future post, and one of the questions I was asked was what MsAfropolitan is about. I have a love-hate relationship with this question. Reason being that MsAfropolitan is me,...

  Posted on Wednesday August 25th, 2010 at 05:44 pm in africa Spirituality race musings afrocentric

• Feeling down is a part of happiness

  I started writing this post feeling down. That’s the last part of this post, a bit pathetic. Like many, I’ve developed an online attention disorder. My attention span online is 140 seconds and I don’t even have the patience to conv...

  Posted on Thursday August 19th, 2010 at 11:55 am in life happiness Spirituality musings

• The MsAfropolitan Boutique launches in tribute of the African Women’s Decade

  It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. ~Voltaire The African Women’s Decade 2010-2020 was recently launched in the UK by WILPF in conjunction with the Gender Studies department at SOAS ...

  Posted on Wednesday August 11th, 2010 at 11:12 am in africa fashion entrepreneurs seven african women

• Smart women should watch porn

  I probably should not title a blog post like this. After all, both my parents and maybe even some of my friends parents and who knows, maybe their parents parents read my blog. However, with the news of Laurence Fishburne’s daughter, Montana F...

  Posted on Thursday August 5th, 2010 at 11:25 am in sex feminism famous people young women

• How not to write a killer-post

  You know what’s awesome? When you blog you get to write what they call killer posts. This label is perhaps a tad of an overstatement, because quite simply what writing a killer post means is you’ve written a post that’s so good it ...

  Posted on Friday July 30th, 2010 at 10:34 am in africa sex musings Uncategorized famous people

• Young woman, Old woman

  Young woman, Old woman Is there anything good about ageing? I spent a week in Finland this month, with my grandmother, in an elderly home amidst woods and lakes, and I must say, there’s something about being in a home for the elderly, a stillness...

  Posted on Friday July 23rd, 2010 at 01:49 pm in africa life Spirituality musings nigeria

• Big butts are in fashion

  Erick-Christian Ahounou photos ‘White America’ has now caught up with the idea that a pert posterior is a turn on. After years of skinny being in fashion, this summer, even Hollywood agrees that if your hindquarter looks anything like Kim Kardash...

  Posted on Monday July 19th, 2010 at 10:10 am in sex feminism fashion race musings

• Patience, are you really a virtue?

  Children are planning to take over the world in a movement called poto. How else can you explain that a few weeks ago on a London train a small boy continuously shouted the word ‘poto‘. Fast forward a few weeks to this past Saturday on a...

  Posted on Wednesday July 14th, 2010 at 03:07 pm in africa Spirituality race musings patience

• ‘Children of War’ Inspired by ‘Beasts of no Nation’ by Uzodinma Iweala

  I am remembering the night when the war is starting. Even before they are arriving to killing us the air is feeling sticky like okra and people are not happying. I am sensing that something is wrong but my mother and father is saying that everythin...

  Posted on Thursday July 8th, 2010 at 05:59 pm in fiction literature child soldiers micro-fiction

• 7 facts to love about Ghana

  The World Cup is almost over, and not to disregard whichever country ends up taking the trophy (g’wan Germany), but there is one country which I will remember as the real winner of the event – Ghana. I make this claim on the basis that G...

  Posted on Monday July 5th, 2010 at 11:49 am in africa football ghana seven afropolitan

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