Sunday Reads

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• Long live radio
• What can you do about the climate change emergency?
• Your Sleep In Your 30s and 40s Can Alter Your Brain Function For the Rest Of Your Life. What terrible terrible news
• Fantastic listening on the extended girlhood that Taylor Swift gets to enjoy
• Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
• T-swift and her carbon footprint in the name of LURRVE 🙂
• On dementia in an old loved one
• Thinking of yourself as a brand is actually exhausting.
• TOO many inequalities are highlighted in this work.

Recipes

• I used to cook this chicken recipe all the time in high school, must make for the fam
• Lemon garlic salmon tray bake
• Because no one ever has enough chicken wings recipes, here is one and another.
• Wouldn’t this be a cute cake for a 5-year old?

Sunday Reads

• Some fun Valentine ideas to share with children.
• I could relate tothis gatekeeping article but I disagree that only moms do it.
• Ten Questions for a New Year
• I would love to visit Berlin
• I have mixed feelings about these common surnames across Africa.

Pins I am loving

I love window seats … they are so dreamy and this one has additional space at the bottom

There is something about wearing a jumpsuit to a wedding or on a wedding lineup

I love the pink couch .. what a dream

 

There is something about this dress …. 

An African Animated Short Film

Sunday Reads

• Love how this father dealt with the loss of his wife.
• Is African philosophy a misnomer?
• We recently studied the relationship between Ruth and Naomi.
• Some podcast recommendations.
• I loved this post and all the comments.
• I want to check out this restaurant.

Recipes

• Swedish meatballs

• Apple Cider Braised Chicken

Sunday Reads

• Grandparents are the bomb.com
• Teaching your kids the bible.
• Trusting God through suffering.
• Marriage advise for young women.
• Bringing your full self to work, even your weekend / after-hours self.
• Humans are versatile and multi-dimensional.
• I enjoyed Africa’s a Country posts during the World Cup on racism in France
• … and the fear of a black France.
• Planting food in your home garden.
• Would you live in a house without a kitchen or re purpose the room if you never cook?
• Memoirs from North Korea

Recipes

• Cooking with tuna.
• Cauliflower stir-fry with quinoa.
• … and another one pot quinoa pilaf recipe.
• Egg-free ice cream.
• Chickpea And Coconut Korma Curry With Pumpkin.
• Cooking with cream 

 

Small Thursday Challenge

The finalists for the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing were announced earlier this week. The Caine Prize for African Writing is a registered charity whose aim is to bring African writing to a wider audience using our annual literary award. The finalists hail from Kenya :), South Africa and Nigeria and here are their short stories:

• Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria) for American Dream
• Stacy Hardy (South Africa) for Involution
• Olufunke Ogundimu (Nigeria) for The Armed Letter Writers
• Makena Onjerika (Kenya) for Fanta Blackcurrant
• Wole Talabi (Nigeria) for Wednesday’s Story

I wanna challenge myself to read them all and then guess which one will win. Join me?

 

Sunday Reads

• Uber’s performance on the African continent.
• Nairobi at dusk.
• Tiny hacks that elevate your room just so.
• Great book recommendations available here, here and here.
• ” … Yet there is no word for “single mothers” in Dari and Pashto, the languages spoken in Afghanistan. “Single moms are described only by the status of their husbands … so they’re either widowed or divorced. But their motherhood is not recognized.”
• Some of us recognise this kind of man.
• What a timely reminder that often our ministry will be unrecognised.
• Toast for dinner is always welcome.

 

Sunday Reads

• Yeah, I’d watch this show.
• Yaaaasssss!!! for Serena Williams.
• The danger of importing an idea without considering how it would apply to a local context. Here and Here.
• “Traveling through the neighborhoods of Cape Town is like peeling back the layers of an onion.”
• Racial underpinnings in conservation in Kenya.
• I enjoyed this piece on textural discrimination among black (hair) naturals.
• Race/ Diversity and the Church.
• Sometimes we limit God in our small thinking of Him and our calling.
• Petinah Gappah writes very well.
• Follow Jonathan Ball Publishers this month and get a free book in their give away.
• 5 Things to do when you have 10 minutes. Love this!!
• What a practical and wonderful gift to share with your parents.
• An example of a great teacher.
• Finally bit the bullet and got a pressure cooker.
• Practising a plant based diet this month (Aside: It is fine but I miss ice cream and yoghurt).

Recipes

• Yummy noodle sweet potato pasta.
• Herbed zucchini wraps.
• More on cooking with zucchini.
• I love this one-sheet chicken recipe.
• Some sweets to make in advance.
• 10 cake recipes for tea time.
• Non-dairy ice cream.

 

Sunday Reads

• We live in times that are not friendly to Black women.
• So many fantastic ideas for African focused and produced podcasts. Just yes already!!
• African history is fascinating and powerful.
• Occasionally Joburg has some interesting events.
• And Cape Town’s history and racial inequality can drain you for days.
• This exhibition in Nairobi sounds like it was so exciting.
• I wanna be friends with this mama.
• I love how this article talks of the changes to female friendship as their own roles diversify.
• And this sensitive and practical response to that.
• Practical ways to teach your children the Bible.
• Life is all about perspective.
• Are you Ok being alone or does solitude scare you?

 

Four African Cities

• Luanda, Angola
• Asmara, Eritrea
• Lagos, Nigeria
• Monrovia, Liberia

 Of all of them, I would probably only want to visit Luanda and hopefully at someone else’s cost!

Sunday Reads

• A guide to eating out in Cape Town.
• Black hair done beautifully.
• I would love this app when I become a mom.
• Oh dear,these two conversations, one and two.
• Please note the following before heading to Kampala.
• For book clubs that also like to pop bottles here’s a guide.
• I might have found out this year that poppy in poppy seeds is the same poppy in heroine.
• Books by Christian authors of colour.
• How death inspires us to live.
• How to get out of the season when you do not feel like reading your Bible.
• On practising hospitality.
• Some more on hospitality.
• This essay on the interplay between widowhood and food touched me so deeply.
• What makes a piece of chilli hot?

Recipes

• 22 ice cream flavours to try.
• More ice cream.
• Do you want to bake cakes?
• This coffee drink sounds yum.

 

 

Sunday Reads

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• Some of the narratives driving Kenya’s election.
• 17 strategies for the workplace.
• The place of the woman in the church: two similar views. One and Two.
• Stunning pictures of Ethiopia.
• ​Some amazing things to say to your dad
• ​On home and identity within Nigeria.
• You are better than you think you are.
• Wearing hair scarves.
• How many bible chapters do you know?
• Did you/did you not take your husbands surname? I didn’t/ haven’t.
• On praying for the salvation of lost family.
• I’ve been to one of these five cities.

Recipes

• 15 cakes to bake

Sunday Reads

• Great job Zanzibar!! But how many people aged over 70?
• This is true, how we often judge women’s decisions.
• Are you a texter, or a talker? I am definitely a texter except for with family and certain close pals.
• This is a gorgeous home!!
• A bit of language but imagine if you had to sign language interpretation for Snoop Dogg.
• So MUCH goes into publishing a cookbook. Also, how if you cannot negotiate a good deal you could end up broke.
• Something about this letter correspondence broke me.
• I still believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.
• .. and more thoughts on open marriages here.
• This is true of what is driving many societies today.
• How to show your faith at the workplace.

Recipes

• Toasted Pumpkin Seed Dip with Fresh Herbs

Books read: January – April

• Truly, Madly, Guilty – Sinead Moriarty
• On Black Sisters Street – Chika Unigwe 
• Changes – Ama Ata Aidoo
• Modern Lovers – Emma Straub
• The Woman Next Door – Yewande Omotoso
• Rape – Pumla Dineo Gqola (My review) 
• When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
• Small Great Acts – Jodi Picoult
• Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles Book Two and Three
• An Elegy for Easterly – Petina Gappah
• Grit – Angela Duckworth

I happily enjoyed all of these books that I would happily recommend any of them.

Sunday Reads

• The aftermath of the Boko Haram war in Nigeria.
• Please watch the movie Get Out!
• Must watch this movie: Kalushi
• A history of Kenya’s democracy.
• The state of governance in Rwanda.
• Really cool project to document our African story.
• Parental notifications where children miss a class.
• Apparently I am in the right age to have a little one.
• This is an awesome business idea.
• So proud of these Kenyan female activists.
• Hail Angela Merkel.

Recipes

• I love dal makhni.
• Had one of these sans the egg white.
• Roasted potatoes with chickpeas.

Sunday Reads

• How big is the size of the average cabinet in Africa?
• Oh for the love of grandparents for their grand kids.
• Some wonderful doccies to check out.
• School lunches from across the globe. Must say my favourite are the Spannish and Finnish ones.
• What happens when the Queen passes on?
• Chrissy Teigen opens up on post-partum depression.
• My lunch hour is wasted.
• Oh my word, organising grown meet ups IS AGONY!!!

Three thoughts on Ngugi wa Thiong’os public lecture

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His talk was titled “Decolonising the Mind, Securing the Base”.

1. We exchanged our accents for European accents and in exchange for access to African resources.
2. If you know all the languages of the world except your mother tongue, you are enslaved. If you speak your mother tongue in addition to other languages, you are empowered.
3. Names and language is the imperialist’s last battle for the war that begun with the sword.

His talk was disrupted, I think wrongfully but here are a couple of other views you could check out.

• Should Ngugi have asked the White people to leave?
• wa Thiong’o interrupted during his talk.

Sunday Reads

1. Interesting take on development in Africa through the tale of the seed industry in Uganda.
2. Even I got punished for speaking an African language at school.
3. More women than men in Lesotho are in school.
4. Technology is definitely making life easier for refugees.
5. This seems like a simple DIY even I could do.
6. As Christians we do not look to our circumstances but the hope of Christ and His promises!
7. “A mistake is just a moment in time.”
8. Be ambitious for life and not just work. Yes!
9. Ten places to visit in Nairobi.
10. Six hot podcasts on and by Africans to listen to.
11. Yummy lemon cake.
12. What is a PhD?
13. Awwwww at this cute child‘s response to her mom. Oh dear for this old man.
14. Lime zest and cardamon mandazi.
15. Some really inspirational girls!

Sunday Reads

1. Loving these sets of articles about women, women and ambition and the work place.
2. Thinking of doing this for someone I love.
3. Something about this video made me so homesick for Nairobi.
4. Some tips for all the new moms out there.
5. Love that this guy acknowledges what White Male Privilege has meant for him and his accomplishments.
6. Kenya goes to the polls in  August this year. A quick primer of some of the issues.
7. Some great African books to look forward to this year.
8. Somehow not a fan of all these baby products that work on selling fear to parents.
9. Some more Obama stuff.
10. We cannot run from God’s voice, where is He calling you to today?
11. An effective way to incorporate prayer into your life.
12. A yummy fish recipe.
13. Getting kids to [always] eat veggies.