"The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane", Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power "Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enameled with grace, toasted with beauty. My lord, she's a black woman", Yosef Ben-Jochannan Her grace is formidable Swag outta this …
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within, strength, courage, dignity”- Ruby Dee, African American Actress Last December, I decided that starting 2018 I was breaking up with fear, leaving my crippling inhibitions, anxiety and baggage in 2017. It was too heavy a load to carry and it …
Continue reading Ghana Is My Muse: Behind the Ahofe Fashion Line
“You are from Ghana? Our people came from there”, the old man said to me. I sat on the ground, next to him and a group of young men sitting in a circle, smiled and said, “I came looking for you all." Ever since I was a young girl, I wondered where my family members …
Continue reading Issa Family Reunion: A Visit to Accompong Town, Jamaica
"If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. ” – Audre Lorde “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker West Philadelphia born and raised; weaved like twill between African American, Fulani and Ghanaian communities most of my days. An African …
"We survived it...We resisted together and we struggled together...and that has made us, all, of us, much more serious about who we are and about our love for each other" -Assata Shakur This past April, my siblings and I traveled to Cape Coast and paid homage to our ancestors. My sister snapped this picture …
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