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FrendshipPLUS: Scrap the Dating Fanfare for a Genuine Connection

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:46:39 PST

Dating, Mating, Texting, Sexing, Sexting, Meat marketing. It’s Wednesday night, you’re waiting for the Qonjit you met at that swanky jazz spot on Friday Night to call you back – she seemed into the music but way more into you. I mean, you were exchanging smoldering looks over that candle while you argued about the [...]

A Saturday at the Wharton Africa Business Forum

tsepeaces — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:28:40 PST

by Tse Setting out on my very first trip to the illustrious city of Philly on a Saturday morning, I had very few ideas about what I will find at the Wharton Africa Business forum. I imagined it to be a gathering of motivated young Africans and, as someone at the forum put it, Afri-philes gathered [...]

The Graying of these here Pink Shades

tsepeaces — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:49:40 PDT

by tsepeaces youth the bright hues and yellow tints of youth shimmer with a firm naive plumpness an alluring image behind pink glasses tints that ripen into a deep maroon red under an abrupt, certain stare under the visor where pleasure equals happiness gorgeous equals flawlessness grown confusion and complexity, blurring against clarity all was [...]

When I’m Back

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:38:23 PDT

I have now made peace with “loneliness” and we have made unwritten convention that it will occupy a small corner in my life. It will NOT take over completely; make me move to another city or date un-dateable guys. I will NOT deny its existence. “Loneliness” and me shook hands and sealed the deal, with out shemagelas, eyewitnesses or lawyers. I looked at a framed picture of my parents for approval. They smiled, so I guessed they also approve.

The Uncomfortable Truth: Nneka

Fabay — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:44:23 PST

photography and article by Fabay I’m so glad I came across Nneka in 2009. I was instantly in love with her music when I heard the song “Africans”. I was so impressed to see a young intelligent woman who was born and raised in Africa urging fellow Africans to focus on constructive solutions through her art. Nneka [...]