As an eco-spiritualist, I often find inspiration for my activism from observations about human relationships with the natural earth. The latest: a poem I wrote about a cockroach I murdered, and the irrationality of phobias -- not just what fear lead us to do, but how it's often used to…
Today is Nigeria's Independence Day, but I can't focus on my country's progress. It's challenging to remain optimistic in the face of landlords telling you they won't rent to you because "you're a single woman who could potentially use the apartment for prostitution." Until "Nigeria" addresses its treatment of women…
From Colorlines: "When Mindy Budgor was 27 years old, she apparently tried to find meaning in her life by temporarily ditching her wealth in Santa Barbara and jetting over to hang with the poor people of Kenya." Read the full story, and my less than tempered response to yet another…
Welcome to my new series, African Women in Tech, and the first interview w/ Nigerian tech entrepreneur, Abaka Adenle, lead developer of the SpeakYoruba app.
Let's get something straight. There are lots of Africans who don't speak their native languages, for a variety of reasons, but they want to learn. But given that the pool of resources for learning indigenous African languages isn't as large as say, for Spanish, wouldn't it be more productive to…