I personally think that this era of media lends itself to controlling people much more completely and that our whole sense of existence is tied up with the ability of people to think differently than what the mass culture tells them. How can we fix this? The answer to this question is what I am yet to find. Continue Reading
Global Majority (Hisses teeth and rolls eyes): Not a good idea. We stand with Israel. Most of the victims in Palestine seem to be Muslims — we hate Muslims. Screw humanity, we’re talking about Muslim lives which does not matter. Please, leave us so we can discuss something more relevant. Continue Reading
i hold school like the holy trinity, father/son/& the holy spirit. but here in my country,our schools are running short of blessings. it’s like sometimes in april, when bullets from angry men flooded our father’s home, & our mother’s… Continue Reading
As I have lived through my traumas and in this quest of love with a village of other people, some of us have lived dodging all roads that lead to that dreadful past but hope for a brighter future; some of us are still struggling to get over whatever trauma we have lived; Continue Reading
let it remain sung in hymns
and pipes
how we fused on a day of
strife
our desires, our dreams, our
goals
how we mold them out o’er the
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In no time Kla was at Lassana’s house. Okay, go ahead ‘Scrapper in love’ tell me exactly what happened today. Lassana said, putting aside everything. “I got a missed call from Decontee today,” Kla begun to elucidate, “so I used one of my course-mates’ phone (Gbalee) to call her because I was out of airtime. She told me that she wanted to go for lunch at the cafeteria with her friends. Immediately, my smile died because I couldn’t meet her request at the time, so I lied that I was in Pleebo.” Continue Reading
Love is a word that is much too soft and used far too often to ever describe the fierce, infinite and blazing passion that I have in my heart for you. You are a million dreams and a million prayers of a little girl come true. You are kind. You are silly. You are intelligent. Your laugh is contagious. You acknowledge my strengths and accept my faults. You make me want to be a better person every day. I take you as you are now, tomorrow and for eternity to come, to be my husband. Continue Reading
Unsafe abortions lead to the death of so many of our young women. The medical procedures and access aside, just the stigma associated with abortions in Liberia needs to be addressed. Our young women will rather take the risk of a backdoor procedure using rusty syringes and herbs than to make it public or seek medical help. Continue Reading
