Raising my son and trying to figure things out
I am constantly wondering what I am doing, plus the anxiety that comes with motherhood doesn’t help. So, that day,…
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The Kind of Love I Want
This is the kind of love I want: A love that makes the trouble of this world invisible to me…
Celebrating Black Love on Valentines Day
I feel like society has failed to romanticize and celebrate black love. I think, as black people, we need to…
MY BELOVED
Poem by Tashinga Chiwomba MY BELOVED The elders of my time only told me that life was cold They never…
The Honey Pot
AfroWomenPoetry founded by Antonella Sinopoli narrates the stories of African women through poetry moving from country to country across Sub Saharan Africa.…
Embracing the Other Woman
I don’t see you as a threat, yet you take up space in my mind. I see your beauty, your warmth,…
Black love matters
If love was a person Angel spent days crying. Life was getting hard, she felt empty inside, and her mind…
This one is for the single mothers
Edith’s bright light sparkled a few years after she lit it. She was a great law scholar. Having gone through…
I want to make my husband happy, to honour his name, to give him a child
It hurt a lot last time, I had to walk into that pharmacy and explain the wound and how it…
Signing a pre or postnuptial contract does not show a lack of faith in your marriage, but rather good asset management and preparation
It was probably not until I heard it on Kanye West’s hit song “Gold digger” did I first know about…
What to do with unwanted Christmas gifts
Christmas may officially be behind us, but Christmas gifts are not, or at least those we love. Especially as they…
She will decide when she’s older
I can still remember it as clear as day. When my daughter was about to turn one, I had a…
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