Africa

“We cry each time we go to harvest our plantains. We expect big bunches but we get angry seeing small bunches because of [gas] flaring.”

“People want to... feel heard and want to see that there are efforts being made, regardless of the evidence behind what works."

“I was thinking when he makes it, he would take care of me and my daughters. But no, he is gone painfully.”

Nearly 16 million people in Nigeria, 4.2 million of them urban, are currently exposed to 1-in-100-year flood threats.

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.

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.

At one point, it seemed as though almost every person above the age of forty was either a diabetic or a prediabetic.

The solution to this problem is seemingly simple, but is convoluted by politics: Keep what you will definitely need, donate the rest!

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.

In a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.