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Speak on It – A Reader’s Take on Black Love
A while back, when this blog was the official bandeka blog, I told a reader that I would post her response to a blog that I did. In getting caught up with the move to Rambling Roommates, I never did....
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I Need to Believe in Love Again
My uncle, who is a marriage counselor, frequents this blog from time to time, and after reading my take on logistics and love, he took me aside and said, ‘Afua, I think you need to believe in love...
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Dear Lola (On Faith, Fidelity and Family)
If you have not already read the story of Lola and Dayo, then definitely check it out before proceeding in order to get the context and background story. Dear Lola Akindele, First off let me say a big,...
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Dear Lola (and Amma). Pt 2 of Faith, Fidelity, and Family
WHOA. I don’t know what to say, but THANK YOU. I’m not one to be very outwardly emotional (y’all know this), so you can probably imagine the inner struggle I had writing and actually posting my last...
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Speaking My Language…
**We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming in honor of Valentine’s Day. Amma will post a response to Afua’s Ultimate Dating Advice next week, but in the meantime we’re doing a special Love...
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Clash of the Titans (Response to “The Ultimate Dating Advice: Seek Ye First”)
A week after Afua’s post, I received a call from a guy friend who had a very interesting theory about our Accra experiences. He essentially said we were going about the dating thing completely the...
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The Economics of Sex: The Game Has Changed [Part 1]
You would have to be living under a rock to not have seen The Economics of Sex vid on some timeline, tweet, or status update in the last few weeks. I’ve included the vid below. It’s only ten minutes,...
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The Economics of Sex: The Game Has Changed [Part 2]
This is Amma’s response to The Economics of Sex: The Game Has Changed [Part 1] . . . Wait… Let’s go all the way back… Who says we all want to get married in the first place? I studied labor relations...
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Not All Women Want to get Married –– and Other Half Truths.
Soooooo… we didn’t win. Tear. If you recall, we were nominated for Best Blog for Ghana’s 2014 Social Media Awards, but unfortunately we didn’t win. I know you’re wondering who on earth could have...
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Guest Post: Nah Hun, We’re Going Dutch! Treat Her Like a Lady: Part III
We’re really guest posting things out, eh? We must say thank you to our guest bloggers for making this space more interactive lately! So if you can remember, I wrote a post about ‘Being a Lady’ and...
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Maybe it’s time to get my swirl on
As we get older and (hopefully) become more self aware, we start questioning some belief systems that we’ve held on to for seemingly no reason. And this can’t be more true than my feelings for white...
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Ciara-catures and Ayesha Curry Unicorns: Are you Steph enough?
I was listening to a podcast recently— The Africanist. It was a really good episode about spirituality. At the end of each episode, the all male panel have a very interesting segment called “Respect or...
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