by Nonkosi Tazibona | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have never been shy about my love for my hair. However, there was a time when I absolutely despised my hair. I remember all the hours spent in the bathroom washing my hair. I can still feel the knots of my thick 4c hair being a more formidable foe than math ever...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | May 2, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Today I want to talk about sexism. Give me a standing ovation. Sigh. Isn’t that just…I don’t know, fun? I’m not big on gender wars. Frankly, I think they are stupid. I don’t like to compare two awful constructs by dubbing one as the lesser evil, yet here we...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 25, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Pssst…psssst…yes, you are you aware that there’s a tired whisper circling in certain corners of the internet, gaining traction among self-proclaimed “culture warriors” ? According to them anything that features people of colour and in our case, black people...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 18, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Last week I flipped the world on its axis, giving what I hope was a glimpse of a world where men could menstruate. Today I want to fashion a world where Africa wasn’t colonised but was instead a coloniser. What would happen if African perspectives and...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 4, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY As an African woman, there’s nothing that I love more than telling African men and women that I am a feminist and watching them immediately scowl or denounce their preconceived notions of myself, whether as feminine or as a normal person in general. Yes, in...
