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As someone who still strongly identifies as African (born and raised) but living in the West (London specifically), I find I've drawn my influences from groups that till this day do not collide (at all). And from it, somehow, I've shaped a view, an idea, a dream of what womanhood should look like for me without a single idea of how to realize any of it (ha!). And so, inspite of all the wonderful and inspiring content available on Instragram, Youtube and TikTok combined I've found myself desperately trying to find examples I can look up to. So in short, here is a small but growing list of my current internet crushes. They all are in my mind, women I...

This short novel is written as a really long letter written by the protagonist Ramatoulaye to her childhood friend Aissatou, now living in the USA. Across the pages however we get to discover the lives of more women with different ages, tribes, social footing and education. We get to see each of them respond to the challenges that came with living through Senegal’s independence years when, like many other African nations, it still struggled to reconcile a women’s place in this new “liberated” society.