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I Feel For Mo’Nique, But She’s Fighting An Unwinnable Battle

Posted on January 31, 2018
by Malaka
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“Are you boycotting Netflix?” “What?” “Netflix. Mo’Nique said we should all boycott Netflix.” It was now 5am CAT and I could only stare at my phone and wonder what had happened 8 hours prior EST to illicit this text from my sister. I know her…

Musings

How Much Time Do You Invest Into Your Personal Development?

Posted on January 29, 2018
by Malaka
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I’m a (not so) secret super fan of the FOKN Bois, the oddly paired rap duo from Ghana. It’s often tempting to invoke parallels between the members of this group and the now-defunct Outkast, but it’s even wiser to refrain from that temptation. Just like…

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There’s Only One Reason Well Intentioned White Women Don’t ‘Get’ Racism

Posted on January 26, 2018
by Malaka
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“If it isn’t intentional, then it isn’t racism.” Those are the words of a woman who would most likely describe herself as ‘color blind’, if not an ally to people marginalized, stigmatized and often downright oppressed in majority white societies. Those words incited shock, disbelief…

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The Frustration Of Being A Male ‘Authority’ Figure In Ghana

Posted on January 23, 2018
by Malaka
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It must be overwhelming to live as a heterosexual male in Ghana. Imagine being told - explicitly or not – that no matter how difficult your life may be, no matter how many disappointments you may suffer, at least you are not a woman. Women…

Motherhood

There Is Dignity In All Work

Posted on January 22, 2018
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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,…

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Untitled, because there are no words to define this grief

Posted on January 8, 2018
by Malaka
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“We always had a problem with him and pools. The people who own the pool upstairs said they caught him walking around it when I already told him not to. I gave him a hiding. He said he wouldn’t do it again. And then just…

Musings

What’s On Your Plate in 2018?

Posted on January 4, 2018
by Malaka
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Do you make New Year resolutions? I don’t. Not any more. I don’t even make goals. Murphy’s Law operates in my life with the efficiency of a bicycle and the ferocity of Eddy Merckx on the pedals. Whether horrific or splendid, every event in my…

Musings

Goodbye With Gratitude, 2017

Posted on December 31, 2017
by Malaka
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The year is drawing to a close and we are in the homestretch! 2018 is peering back at us over the horizon. 2017 has been a bizarre year, much of it in a good way. After the horrors that 2016 wrought upon us, it was…

Marriage

Mary Is My Least Favorite Character on ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

Posted on December 26, 2017
by Malaka
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Watching holiday movies was never a big part of my family’s Christmas rituals, growing up. We watched A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman and those early claymation flicks featuring Rudolph and Jack Frost, but that was it. Big blockbuster ‘must watch’ holiday classics like…

Motherhood

10 Great Gifts For Tween Boys

Posted on December 23, 2017
by Malaka
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Is your little man tired of receiving khakis, hoodies and socks for Christmas? Has exhaustion from exerting yourself all year depleted your creative capacity? Do you want him - like his father- to just be grateful for the gift of refined cotton?? If the title…

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