Life at twenty maybe thirtyYet to get the hands dirtyIdeally should be happyIn fact it turns nastyAn early harsh realityThirty the prime of lifeShouldn’t be such strife When the pots were blackHappiness was life’s hackSimplicity was the trickNow everything is bleakNear everyone is slick Bring back the black potsMake simple the new hotDo away with…

Having been schooled on the DOs and DON’Ts of diaspora living in the backdrop of superficial co-existence the variety of your subtle NOs has slightly increased and your wit and political correctness are not in bad nick either. By now you are able to jibe with a smile on your face and your monotone is…

Soo… back to the grind of everyday first world life, well not really, since you are kinda still caught between different time zones. After hours in the air with interrupted sleep in an upright postion and minimal leg room in a confined space, umm maybe not so fast. Your body decides to have a mind…

After sometime without going home you decide that maybe it’s yet another time to reconnect with your roots and your culture and the people and the food and the weather and everything that is symbolic to home. You have saved and planned for months and can barely contain the excitement of going back. You can’t…

So my 8yr old child comes home and says to me so and so was saying the “N” in class but so and so, another kid in class said it’s like saying Richard Cranium as if it’s OK for an 8yr old to be talking about Richard or his Cranium. This reminded me of an…

I am quietly confident in thinking that almost everyone in the world has heard something about Robert Gabriel Mugabe. His name is one that is mired in controversy, even in death he is still generating a debate. Mugabe’s is a complex and multi faceted story whose contexts depend on your geographical location and more importantly…

So you decide you don’t want to give your neighbour a hunched back since they are determined to avoid eye contact with you who knows why maybe they just happen to bump into you a lot after news, so you try and be inside before and after the news to help with your neighbour’s correct…

Boarding that plane maybe for the first time ( often times it’s the first time) so many thoughts going through your mind, so many feelings are at play. Whatever reason made you hop into that plane venturing into a new world as you plunge into the deep of uncharted territory you can barely contain that…

I have often heard people say that kids do not come with a manual, which to me says kids can be a challenge to parent sometimes yet cruisy at times if you are lucky . Parenting is an ongoing learning experience with countless teachable moments for both parent and child and each day has it’s…

Migration is a natural phenomenon it has been happening since time immemorial. Some people choose migrate for different and varied reasons some for love, change of scenery, adventure and in search of greener pastures in terms of work and economic reasons, cultural experience, study etc. This happens all over the world with people of all…