A CUT THAT KILLS
Shukri Saddow Mohamed is a nine year old who lives in Daadab Camp with her large family consisting of her father, uncles and aunties. She loves running around and enjoys playing around with her friends as they await for time to go to madrassa classes. She has big dreams and ambitions and believes that the […]
WRITING WOMANHOOD
As the thick dust rises to the sky, it leaves a sting in my nose, and tears in my eyes. This has since become my favourite time of the day; hiding in the wave of dust to cry as I sweep clean the compound. We are neither allowed to cry nor talk about it. My […]
Death of a Living Mother
Death of a Living Mother Shaki, one and a half, would play with her mother on a sofa that sits between a blue fridge and a standing fan in their single room. Two teeth up beaming reflex smiles as Anatu tickled her first child with her middle finger. It’s a moment every young married woman […]
Betrayed By My Own
This is not an idle claim, but one that I can personally attest to, it all began while in my fifteenth age when my father was transferred to a district in the fur east to serve as a district health officer. During those pivotal adolescent years, my life changed dramatically. Settling in a new community […]
They Call Her a Sin
The scream that flung you out of sleep told of torture, confusion. Your daughter was in your dreams, the tenth time this week. She won’t let you take a sip of water and drop the cup in peace. This time, she stood on a broken bridge, calling out your name, “help me, Nneka.” You are […]
The survivor
The village of Adavi wasn’t exactly the opposite of daarimsai,both village has it’s traditions and beliefs wholly based on the archaic generational heritage passed down from barbaric ancestors which for most of them discriminate against women as they are seen as an item to fulfill men’s purpose, although the people of daarimsai has long promulgated […]
Scarred
Scarred FGM story telling They were like years of flowing torturous and compulsive feeling, with bated breaths in anticipation for the worse to come. The dread that had gone through her ears and permeated into her brains. She knew it because she had heard and seen it, the gruesome actions committed against her gender, in […]
The Local Surgical Theatre
It was 2 am, I kept tossing and turning on my bed and with every second that ticks, I got closer to making that decision that I have always feared I thought to myself, it is time” I stood up carefully from our soring bed to avoid waking my other siblings. I slowly opened the […]
Briser le silence, offenser la tradition
Depuis la nuit des temps, au Landougou, terroir situé à l’ouest du continent « Farafina », la tradition est considérée comme une valeur ancestrale ancrée au sein des habitants. Ici, la pratique de l’excision en est une obligation au niveau de la couche féminine. Dès que la période hivernale marque ses empreintes, des petites filles sont […]
THE UNTOLD STORY.
I ordered pizza, the menu blinked red and the order was declined. Aaaaarg! Our health records and genomic data are now merged and synchronized with all digital devices. Choosing food is crazy, they dictate what and when you eat. The menu gave an option of broccoli with cheese soup or sauteed spinach. I begrudgingly settled […]