Widowed and Homeless, Internally Displaced Nigerian Women Recount Devastating Flood Experiences
“I was thinking when he makes it, he would take care of me and my daughters. But no, he is gone painfully.”
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Samuel Ajala
- Oct 21, 2022
- 7 min
"Official Negligence": Floods in Nigeria Threaten Millions, Quarter of Country's GDP
Nearly 16 million people in Nigeria, 4.2 million of them urban, are currently exposed to 1-in-100-year flood threats.
Cara Doumbe Kingue
- May 17, 2022
- 8 min
Pourquoi combattre le réchauffement climatique nécessite aussi de combattre la misogynoir
Les femmes noires ont en même temps le « malheur » d’être des femmes et de ne pas assez l’être parce qu’elles sont noires.
Cara Doumbe Kingue
- May 17, 2022
- 7 min
Perspective: Fighting Climate Change Is Also About Fighting Misogynoir
If Black women have some of the keys to tackling this crisis, then we need to make sure that they are rightfully considered in society.
Toluwalogo Niji-Olawepo
- Jul 19, 2021
- 7 min
Is Nigeria On a Sugar Rush?
At one point, it seemed as though almost every person above the age of forty was either a diabetic or a prediabetic.
Nidhi Parekh
- Jun 28, 2021
- 5 min
Wealthy Countries: Keep the COVID Vaccines You Definitely Need, Donate the Rest!
The solution to this problem is seemingly simple, but is convoluted by politics: Keep what you will definitely need, donate the rest!
Toluwalogo Niji-Olawepo
- Jan 18, 2021
- 9 min
Dealing With the Dark Days: A Personal Struggle With PMDD
So I give up. I would turn off the lights, bury myself under layers of blankets, and soak my pillow with tears till I fall asleep.
Ahna Skop
- May 13, 2020
- 32 min
Love in a Pandemic—the Scientist and the Serviceman
In a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.
Luna Zagorac
- Dec 30, 2019
- 5 min
On Cairo, Change, and Staying the Same
No sooner had I landed in Cairo after four long years of absence than I discovered my watch broke.
Hon-Ming Lam
- Dec 15, 2018
- 7 min
Blood, Soybeans, and Change
In February 2013, I participated in the World Soybean Research Conference in Durban, South Africa.
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