LawyerLiv & Co.

Tag: politics

  • AFRO-REVOLUTION

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    Forget all the times I said this sentence in vain. This time, we are truly really witnessing History! Gone are the days where they’d make fun of our accents; now they stand in line at the Gold Coast, awaiting their citizenship (*Cough Cough, if the line gets too long, try the other 53 nations that…

  • DETTY DECEMBER WARNINGS

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    (*This is a Satirical Piece*) Brace Yourselves. Detty December is Upon Us!December is a time, when us, Africans living in Diaspora, go to our respective countries of origin to, how shall I put it? — step on necks! Come on, of course we also go to rest, visit family, eat fresh food, recalibrate, breathe pure…

  • Nairas & Puppy-Therapy: Grazie Mille

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    (Try) & Rise and Shine Darlings!Tell me why my job has instituted a new de-stress session of “puppy therapy.” I’m too village for all that, those animals better not lick my face BUT I appreciate the innovation nonetheless. Adorbs… Also, learned a new term. A diplobrat is the child of a diplomat and so spent…

  • Recovering “Racist”?

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    Dearest reader, I must warn you, today’s entry may be offensive, for that, I apologize in advance. In the hopes you can bear with me as I offer a raw, unfiltered, account of my current reality; Welcome! ——— My name is Olivia Mugenga, I am black, I date black, I wear black, I studied black,…

  • TAXES

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    Since I got promoted, I mistakenly thought “I’d arrived” and started making plans to purchase my dream car (of the moment.) That is a chocolate convertible benz with license plate “LawyerLiv” or “Nyanza”…That was until I saw my first pay. A literal 1/4th has been taken out for taxes. Reached out to HR to see…

  • GISÈLE PELICOT: SHERO

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    **Trigger Warning** The following contains references to grave sexual violence crimes. Frenchwoman, Gisèle Pelicot is enduring what French Media is calling “Le Procès du Siècle”. (Trial of the Century). She opted for proceedings to take place in open court insisting, “it is not for me to have shame but them.” The terrible crimes committed against…

  • BUT, SHE’S A WOMAN…

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    Political lines aside. Policy aside. There is a significant number of persons, especially in regressive rural communities, who in their limited, unrefined, uneducated, untravelled, uncultured, simple minds; just cannot imagine a woman is a capable effective leader. The truth they dare not say outloud (and it’s for the best because women box now) is “BUT…

  • HARRIS v. TRUMP

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    Well well well.. we were entertained last night, weren’t we? While I very much wish to see a black woman President, I remain mostly nonpartisan. Harris is no angel. Trump is no devil. I disagreed with Harris invocation of International Law when the topic of Israel and Hamas came up. It is true that Article…

  • 4 of 54: Ghana, Black Stars!

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    Since the nation does not belong to anyone’s father, (**cough cough ex husband** – ariko Mana ndiyenza!) Ghana remains one of my favorite nations in Africa… While it is true that the First African UN Secretary General, one of the coolest African diplomats I recall seeing from childhood, Kofi Annan, was Ghanaian. He is unfortunately…

  • 3 of 54 : Rwanda, Mother of Giants

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    The land of a thousand hills. The land of milk and honey. The land of a majestic people. Home to the endangered specie, Mountain Gorilla. God’s resting place. In that East African Eden, women don’t age and men still have shame. Somehow though, I have never had a Rwandan boyfriend. They don’t understand me and…