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Author: LawyerLiv

  • “Rich Gang” vs. Law 60/2018

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    Dearest Reader… 7 Young Rwandans aged between 20-28 are in Jail as we e-speak. Their crime? Electronic publication of indecent materials and public indecency as codified in Law 60/2018(Articles 38 & 143) Facts seem to be: 9 friends (6 girls 3 boys) were in a whatsapp group “Rich Gang”. Occasionally recorded adult content & sold…

  • Individualism, a Funeral

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    So…Everybody has a Stanley cup.Everybody wants a Birkin.Everybody does golf and drinks Macha.Everybody’s face is the same because everybody contours the same: high cheek bones, pointy nose — or the illusion thereof. Everybody has dated a narcissist. Nobody is a narcissist. Everybody has a dog in a purse named Bella. Everybody is hypersexual and boasts…

  • #47

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    As we attempt to settle into the nightmare that you people have plunged our nation into, my phone will not stop buzzing; not from a suitor or two asking, “fine girl, no pimples, have you eaten?”, but from the New York Times App. In less than 24hrs, #47, who I will not refer to by…

  • 47th Inauguration v. “Young, Famous & African”

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    (** Spoiler Alert!**) I am of course fully aware of the current events in DC, I am just unconcerned for reasons we will touch on later. In the words of Dr. King, whom we honor today, “we must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” So we move…. To heal my soul, I watch…

  • TikToK. National Security. Freedom of Speech

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    Half of the US Population is in mourning. 170 Million Americans TikTok users woke up to this message “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. ” I am…

  • ELDERS WILDIN’

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    All due respect, but the generation above WILDING… I just heard a Jamaican guy in New York share the story of his parents’ separation. Basically, his 60+ y/o dad had 2 babies with a 30y/o and when his stay-at-home wife of 40 yrs confronted him, he legit refused to have the conversation and left; never…

  • Are YOU the Problem?

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    Sometimes we are the cause of our own headache. Knowing that comparison is the thief of joy, why do we insist on keeping up with the “Habimanas”? I stopped using Facebook when the aunties & uncles hijacked it but on IG, I try very hard to only follow people I know in real life OR…

  • SELAH!

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    What a Catastrophe!To Live According to others’ terms.What a Catastrophe!For one tragedy to become your full personality.What a Catastrophe!To Fake. fake. fake. ‘Till Fake Even Tires. What a Catastrophe!To Forsake your mother & father. What a Catastrophe!To Live under shadow, scared to bloom.What a Catastrophe!To Stop Believing in Love/Humans. Selah!

  • MONDAY CHECK IN

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    I knew today was going to be a long day when colleague started the meeting with “Since I’m not God…” Mondays can be so hard. Having to re-program your brain to labor mode after enjoyment mode… Take yesterday for example. I slept in. Then went to church in a fur coat because, am I or…

  • Plagiarism

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    One of my biggest pet-peeve as a baby artist/writer is when people misquote me. Last time, someone said to me, I love how you always say “F Men”. I challenge you to find 1 instance in the 200 blog pieces I’ve published where I said such a thing. I have indeed long spoken on the…