Sunday Reads

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• The terrible plight of women MPs in Kenya during the campaign period.
• .. and my earlier post on this situation here.
• Interested in the decolonisation of education taking place at the African Leadership University in Mauritius? Please also look at the comments, very insightful.
• Africa cannot continue to globalise like this.
• ​Great investigative work on this piece relating how refugees have become a commodity in and of themselves.
• Loved this article about divorce statistics in Kenya.
• So Nigeria has 371 tribes? Wowza
• Second book in my to-read list on contemporary Uganda and what it means to b e Ugandan. The first is the memoir Flame and Song.
• Matrescence: The process of becoming a mother.
• ​Photos are worth a thousand words. More photography.
• Guys, our childhood songs HAD a problem. Stay Woke!
• I have been struggling with negative thoughts recently.
• Some relationship advice for you. And you.
• Oh being asked this question in the fast few months after being married. EEEK!!
• YES to the mental load that women work with. If anyone asked me for marital advice: I would say ask him, make him a real partner even with the housework.

Recipes

• Orange peel tea sangria.
• Thai tea ice cream.
• Cooking with chicken breasts.
• More grilled chicken recipes.

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

Sunday Reads

• The gender pay gap.
• This wedding is so sentimental for me for similar reasons.
• I love Serena Williams even more after this interview.
• Tips to beat jet lag.
• Because land is still a contentious item for former colonies.
• … and the watershed ruling that is the Daniels v Scribante judgment.
• Five African writers recommend books.
• Be a GREAT FRIEND.
• Essential Indian spices for your pantry.

Recipes to try

• Chai spiced panna cotta.
• Making this for dinner this week.
• How to assemble your potato salad.

Sunday Reads

• So it seems feathered eyebrows are a thing.
• Now I feel homesick for Nairobi all over again!
• Security questions we don’t need, but need.
• Who is the main reader in black African literature/ books by black Africans?
• This supper club in London sounds so fun.
• Three reasons I will not find out a baby’s gender.
• I love this idea of a daughter interviewing her mom. MUST try it with my mom one day.
• Must read the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
• Invite someone single to dinner. Aye!
• Also, single and black in white evangelical spaces.
• So apparently non-stick pans might not be safe.
• What does your age reveal about you?

Recipes:

• Yummy sweet potatoes
• Black ice cream
• Cooking shrimp (prawns).

Sunday Reads

• BEST piece on the Dolezal woman!!
• I also loved this essay on how fallible our icons are, including sob Chimamanda.
• What separates great from average people?
• Sounds like an interesting podcast episode.
• A colleague is going through a break-up and this was a great read to share. This too.
• Feel fear but act anyway.
• I’d have a similar reaction when my boss walks in on me reading non-work stuff.
• This article put into context the French election happening today.
• Dying or being enslaved to get to Europe.
• Senegal remains on my to-visit list.
• 8 book recommendations for your father.

 Recipes:

• I love a good lassi.
• Placing vegetables in the centre of your meals.

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.

Belated: (Women-related) Sunday Reads

• I have recently come across this writers work (Roxanne Gay) and so I enjoyed her profile.
• Another take on whether to take your husbands name or not.
• Loved this lady’s profile!
• Applying for a passport for a Kenyan child of dual nationalities.
• A woman transformed.
• How women “colluded” to vote in Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
• How many of these Super 100 African women do you know (without reading their profiles)? I know 27.
• On  feminism lite.
• Would you jump, or no? I wouldn’t
• Oh to have this type of friendship.
• Because language IS political.
• Made this for dinner this past week. Yum!!
• 15 ways to cook your veggies.

Sunday Reads

1. How to read more books this year. I am definitely taking it to heart by reducing my junk TV viewing and making sure I always have a book as I go about various chores.
2. A reading list on Kenya in case you are interested.
3. If a story moves you, act on it!
4. This article on insecurity made me stop and think. Really hard!
5. Somali nicknames are hilarious 🙂
6. So many white tears in this article. I see that they have only a given demographic of foreign spouses married to South Africans.
7. Also, this IS cultural expropriation.
8. More on how couples deal with finances.
9. I didn’t know there were Nigerian Jews in Johannesburg. Today’s fact!!
10. What does it mean to be a boy or girl? National Geographic asks 9/10 year old kids.
11. Stealing from one of the comments, “This is by far the best article I’ve read regarding LBGT and the gospel.”
12. Chocolate cake and another vegetarian pasta recipe.

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.

Some of my (long) holiday reads ..

1. If you are not a Longreads fan already, here is a list of their best articles of 2016.
2. I am all about female friendships and stuff. I also love the authors idea of an article’s club.
3. My friends and I have these kinds of conversations all the time. Why can’t I ever record them???
4. Things people say after a miscarriage.
5. Black Power!
6. Kindness is the glue that holds couples together.
7. What to choose when considering a Bible Study to join. We all need tips on how to improve our prayer life. Yep. At least me!!
8. I guess con artistes are always looking to make a quick one so academia is also fair game.
9. Short-run solutions to youth unemployment in South Africa. Can young offenders reform successfully?
10. I love the aesthetics of this home!! This housing option seems quaint, but not for me.
11. Helping kids to make New Year resolutions. Some help for adults too. More help from podcasts.
12. Cool places to chill in Johannesburg. And in Uganda.
13. On identity and what makes us, us. 
14. I watched the movie Birth of a Nation and liked it.
15. Recipes: Cooking with soy sauce. Fragrant Chickpea Basmati Rice with Fresh Coriander.

Sunday Reads

1. Cooking with pears
2. I love apple cider vinegar, here are 16 reasons its good for you.
3. Fun places and spaces to visit around downtown Johannesburg.
4. When you look pregnant but you aren’t (NY Times).
5. On how we short-change girls.
6. On the insane pressure on moms relative to dads.

(Long) Sunday Reads

1. Great marriage lesson about talking honestly of our growing up experiences
2. Clothes, beauty and Africa (NY Times)
3. Uganda’s fastest and cheapest street food: Rolex. Do yourself a favour and google how the typical Ugandan pronounces it 🙂
4. …. and then a brief history of Vietnam’s street food, the Banh  mi.
5. School lunches in Japan.
6. So much good in this story.
7. Relationship goals. Yes!!
8. I love mussels and this seems so simple to make at home.
9. I sometimes feel this way about my accomplishments. Yeah!
10. I WANNA host an ice cream social too.
11. Because Lagos loves to party.
12. Bringing up kids in this day and age is not for the faint hearted.
13. Giving birth in Guinea is not child’s play.
14. We must watch Hidden Figures. Very important story to tell!!
15. Yummy (no egg) ice cream recipe.
16. This is my plan for September – need to get a proposal out.
17. I had a similar meal recently at a restaurant, YUMMY cauliflower.
18. Some more productivity hacks.
19. This letter. So true and poignant!

(Long-ish) Sunday Reads

1. Love the little eateries in Cape Town –Hallelujah. Truth Coffee.
2. Sometimes in a long-term relationship you can forget how to really have a good conversation. Here’s how to rekindle that.One. Two.
3. I wonder what a similar labour market analysis would reveal of the aged workers across Sub-Saharan Africa.
4. I love reading about productivity hacks.
5. Some apps to help with  productivity.
6. This article is spot on about how alcohol is fuelling a lot of women today.
7. One day when I am all grown, I will use my board and have a charcuterie and cheese platter.

Recipes

• Yum, how I love tomato sandwiches.
• Spiced shrimp and lemon ginger sauce.
• I can actually taste the salmon in this recipe.
• I am still in love with eggplants, here are a few more recipes to help with that craving.
• Some more yummy zucchini recipes.

 

Sunday Reads

1. Do this to improve your potluck hosting game.
2. Important subject matter (slavery in literature) and I definitely want to read the book, The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehad)
3. Interesting thoughts on appropriating food from another culture. Not unexpectedly, I am more chilled about it provided you show respect.
4. So much I didn’t know about one of Brazil’s most iconic landmark.
5. Green bean stir fry.

The life of an immigrant is a life of two places, two identities. And maybe that’s especially so for those who feel they have no choice but to leave their native land. 

 

Sunday Reads

1. These are my best friend goals for when we are 70-plus.
2. All night after care facilities for busy parents. Very sad!!
3. Vanilla coconut ice cream.
4. Another pasta recipe.
5. You don’t need a sandwich maker to make these cheese sandwiches.
6. Such memories we all have about meeting our MILs for the first time.
7. This is a whole post on the pressure of being a young adult now.
8. So scary but very fascinating.
9. A to-do list if you are looking to change your name post marriage.
10. I am voting for jumpsuits as the official bridesmaid wear!

 

Sunday Reads

1. These tips on how to give a good toast should be mandatory read. The number of wedding toasts I have heard and cringed.
2. Free versus structured play. I am all for free play.
3. Interesting study on why women share photos of their kids on social media.
4. Apparently more people are using video to inform family and friends alike that they are having a baba! (NYT article).
5. 10 ways to reduce your wedding budget.
6. Yes kids get sick at daycare, but they also get sick less often later. This study proves and my mom always said. (NYT article)
7. Such a sad story but so beautifully and heart-warmingly portrayed.
8. So much cuteness in these pictures.
9. On the messaging that we s(sub) consciously send to our daughters.
10. Spicy carrot cumin and coconut soup.
11.  Seven frozen yoghurt recipes.

Men have been denied so many safe spaces where they can be men and vulnerable
Guys like us, it turns out, are hungry for a place to talk with other men, particularly about how fatherhood is changing us, and changing writ large. Just as literature has long helped people see that our seemingly personal struggles are universal, being able to talk in this group offers a similar revelation. In an age of near-constant superficial virtual connection, there’s an enormous benefit in having a real life community to confide in more deeply and provide a genuine social network — especially for men and young fathers so often without it.

(Please also read the comments)

 

Sunday Reads

1. On the importance of community in marriage.
2. Beautiful images of women.
3. Famous logos – before and after.
4. Me right now …
5. This skirt seems fairly simple enough to stitch.
6. On getting rid of all the pause/fillers we use in conversation.
7. Love is a verb! Yep, like this!
8. Not a fan of kale but this looks like a yummy salad and I love the dressing.
9. All male panels in Development and 2016. Really?
10. Desegragation and education of minorities. (NYT article)

Sunday Reads

1. Books to inspire healthy eating.
2. Taking care of your knives. I got so many knives as a wedding gift, so this is personally meaningful.
3. Imagine finding out that what you think of your parents is not so.
4. Considering all the stuff on HONY the past two weeks, this is so painful to imagine.
5. Like her blog and this post because it had products that I could probably use.
6. Probably the only review of Lemonade that resonates.
7. Learnt a new word this week: syndemic!
8. It is so true that children have to be taught to hate.
9. This portrayal of beauty in Kenya over the last 100 years is NOT really representative in my eyes.
10. I used to advocate for the death penalty.Not anymore.
11. I really miss living in the same town as my best best friends. I said it!
12. Love the show Blackish, very interesting to listen to the interview with the shows creator.
13. Different recipes

• Chickpeas and pasta whats there not to love?
• Tarragon chicken
• Fish recipes for an entire week.
• Warm lentil salad

Belated Sunday Reads

1. On yearning for love in your 20s, in a positive and factual way.
2. My dad gave us little sips of alcohol when my sisters and I were little and we turned out fine.
3. Yummy!! Vegetarian Lo Mein.
4. On how to arrive at your calling or passion.
5. How revolutionary, women in Saudi Arabia now get copies of their marriage certificate 😮
6. The effects of intra-uterine shocks on the cognitive development of children.

Sunday Reads

Tonnes of baby/mama related reads because a close pal is having a baby!!

1. Boosting post-partum care.
2. Article captures how you reconcile a shift in your nationality or what you define yourself as.
3. Presentation tips that apply to all of us.
4. Being rich means living longer and therefore positive gains on your pension. (NY Times)
5. I would still choose to be a kid in the ’90s.
6. How do you keep up the creativity?
7. Stylish senior citizens. Yaaaassss!!!
8. Anyone that knows me knows I have been singing about wanting a four month maternity without a kid. Turns out its called “meternity”.
9. Some people have very meaningful jobs …
10. Talent, passion or obsession? (YouTube)
11. I recently got a juicer so i am glad for the different recipes.
12. Mushrooms and chickpeas on toast.
13. The many places that salt hides in food we eat.