Articles on Healthcare
In Africa, is Mental Health a Thing?
CREDIT BRITE My Story I grew up in a community where depression was thought to be for the rich. This mainly meant that it is not a disease, but maybe…
As you grow older: Three things you can do to prepare you to age well.
Life is a circle Illustration by Joost Swarte, 2019 In a single second, you were born into this beautiful world without your concern, and you had to accept it whatsoever.…
The evolution of technology: we are left to use implanted microchips.
(Stevens L, 2017) Implanted microchips As our technology era evolves, our electronic devices still grow smaller and extra compact. People were used to big computers in the early 90s, and…
How Social Media is helping Female Consumers hold Corporations Accountable.
What do Always sanitary products, X-pression braids, Thinx period-proof underwear, and DevaCurl have in common? While the uses of these products are as different from each other as day is…
Corona Virus crisis: Domestic violence during lock down
In the wake of the global pandemic, Covid-19, people found themselves confined within their homes for safety. Lock down has proven to be a tough time for many, it also…
Queer Lives in Africa during Covid-19
In many countries across Africa, even in “normal” everyday life, the queer community lives in fear and is subjected to violence and discrimination on basis of their sexuality. NGO groups…
How to remain productive under this global pandemic?
Salama, Welcome to my second blog article! The current trending matter nowadays is evolving around the impacts of the COVID-19 on the global economic, healthcare and governance system but how…
A Quick Coma Comes Around and the Consequences are Quite Tricky to Cope with, in Somalia.
Somali frontline hero, a nurse at Martini Hospital It was an early evening in late 2019 when the Chinese authorities announced that a respiratory pandemic killed several people in…
Lockdown vs. No Lockdown: What’s the Effective Solution to Combat COVID 19 in Africa?
As we all know about this global pandemic called COVID 19 (coronavirus), it is affecting both, the rich and the poor, black and whites, Asians, Europeans, Australian and Africans, it…
The Big bang theory behind Teenage pregnancies
(Frey, 2017) A Faint heart never won a fair lady Every morning Cindy entered the class I was exuberant. I stopped writing and stared, watching her calculated steps as she…