Telling the truth about blackness in a white world
Sekai Makoni is a writer, speaker, activist, podcast host and training facilitator. She is currently based in Amsterdam but grew up in Cambridge and London. Sekai moved to The Netherlands …
Archive: November 2018
My life as a Burundian activist in exile (Part 1)// Dear Diary
Ketty Nivyabandi is a poet and writer from Burundi. In May 2015 she became a refugee after organizing and leading historic, women-only protests against the violation of her country’s …
Three important icons in my childhood in Curaçao
Born in 1989, there were so many pop culture figures who shaped my childhood identity in Curaçao. Perhaps somewhat surprising to some, on Curaçao, we were exposed a lot to American culture. …
Three important icons in my childhood in East Africa
Like most of my peers, I spent a great deal of my childhood fixated on the television screen yearning to learn more about the latest pop culture figures and the trends. For this piece, I had …
My natural hair journey (part 2)// Dear Diary
Before we begin, just a note regarding Part I. I might’ve sounded like my mom forced me to ‘fix’ my hair, but honestly, it was also me who desired to have a different type of hair. More …
Why we should help Kenyan indie Supa Modo get to the Oscars
(A spoiler free review) A few months ago I watched what I later declared to be my favourite movie of 2018. It was the sleeper Kenyan independent film hit “Supa Modo” that has been making …
Three important icons in my childhood in Kenya
It was an interesting exercise, thinking about the pop culture figures that shaped my childhood. How would life as I knew it then hold up now? Some things didn’t age well when I look …