As a young girl, Sarah Sofia looked forward to the day she would be circumcised. When she entered high school, she learned the truth about the painful and unnecessary practice.
The awakening A few weeks ago, Women’s Hour, a BBC Radio four programme dedicated a week to discussing the menopause. I remember waking up each morning, anxious for when the programme will come on air as women from all works…
Kenya is an amazing lovely country.I am looking for my sisters and brothers on World Pulse.I am thinking of a World Pulse County get together one day.Comment with your suggestions below. Thank you very much for reaching out.…
Sometimes I am teased because I have so many dreams and visions. But this is who I am. Setting aside visioning and dream time for me is like drinking water. It nurtures me and keeps my spirit alive. I believe that part of…
Women today face a lot of challenges simply by virtue of being born a woman. These challenges are even more pronounced on women in third world countries who are burdened by a lot of dos and don’ts set up by a patriarchal…
There’s something that usually always comes to mind when people hear sickle cell anemia. There are still a lot of people who believe those of us who live with sickle cell cannot live without blood transfusions and as such,…
We have been waiting for the crisis to end. It has been a long period when everyone has been living hopefully expecting better days ahead. As parents we knew it will be over soon and our children will get to school. We…
My growing up was a very pretty one though it wasn’t full of roses either. I went to a very good all girls secondary school and I believed my problems of insecurity or let me call it low self-esteem started from there. The…
I joined high school in 2006 and one I thing I remember was how impolite people were with me, how they segregated me because of my size, how they treated me because of how I looked like. I do not know who defines beauty in…
The Woman today is a shadow of herself because of what happened yesterday The attitude she has today, is a reflection of her yesterday. The timid woman today, is a reflection of what she went through yesterday. The…
My background/inspiration: I have always been a compassionate, feminist (who believes in equal rights for everyone). I firmly believe that I chose this life, the people and events in them, for a reason. My own personal…
Her eyes are the color of sadness The soul is chained with scars Body broken, withered Her heart in a flame of pain And she wonders Do they feel my pain? Where's the key to the shackles? Feel it sweetheart They hear you,…
The Right Suitor A child was born about 6 decades ago Into the hands of a waiting white suitor She got nurtured and grew by the day She crawled, leapt and walked in it time She became a woman and then her crown left From her…
Five years ago, I lost a female friend who died in the process of child birth .She successfully put to birth through surgery and later died ten minutes later .When I heard of this ,I was really touched and disturbed, I had…
I have always longed to organize a workshop for women in my community but the challenges varied from lack of self-confident, where I could start, fear and women will not listen or take me serious. A workshop where we could…
S He shared her story and it was halve solve. l got up this morning and decided to go out to say hi to some poeple, after interacting with few people l saw this little girl with a plastic bag in her hand conterning her…
There is a popular slogan in my community which goes “a woman’s enemy is another woman”. I deduced from this slogan that women are responsible for the insecurity of other women and this greatly affected me psychologically. I…
It was in December 2009 that I was first told to seriously start to take care of myself. I was at an all-time low and my last son was barely 5 months old. That year was a very troubled one for me, having attempted suicide…
Had it been today, I will have loved to be a different person than who I have become of today. That person I admire, that person who I will love to be molded around and be like in the future. My upbringing was very…
Even though I had been following World Pulse since 2009 when I read Half the Sky where World Pulse was mentioned, I didn’t “take the plunge” to actually make a difference like I so clearly wanted and needed until fall of…
WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR NIGERIAN POOR WOMEN AS WE CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY -I SELL LOCUST BEANS TO EMPOWER POOR WOMEN By FLORENCE KEKONG On how I celebrated the International Women's Day with poor widows in the…