Book Review: Dear Ijeawele, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

With ‘adulting’ in full swing, it is often very difficult to finish a book in one sitting. In fact, I never do it. So I…

How to Apologise Sincerely (Featuring H&M)

How do you issue a sincere apology? H&M may need a lesson on this. With the storm surrounding the H&M debacle, aka “monkey gate”* calming…

Madeline’s Must-Read List for 2018

I need to read more. Seems like a strange comment to come from a book blogger. But contrary to what you might imagine I don’t…

Blue Monday and the Problem of Speaking for the Sake …

How are you today? This week we’ve had Blue Monday, which is apparently the most depressing day of the year. The 15th January 2018 has…

Three amazing books I read but never reviewed

2017 was such a topsy-turvy year for me that it affected my blogging. If you were following me last year, you would have noticed that…

Book Review | The Smart Money Woman

The Smart Money Woman by new author, Arese Agwu was a book I picked up hoping to learn a few lessons from. However, I only…

2017: Life and Thoughts

Apologies. I know this is not in keeping with the festive season but then I knew I had to write this before we part ways…

Thank God for Social Media, We Now Have a Voice!

I grew up in the 90s when TV was reasonably good for black people in the UK. Although black and brown faces were few and…

Four Things to do to Settle a Dispute (Featuring Xscape)

“What I need from you is understanding. How can we communicate, if you don’t hear what I say?” Who knows where these song lyrics are…

A Soft Answer Turns Away Wrath: The Effectiveness of Soft …

This post is a part of my Reflections* series. However, I think there is a lot to learn from it, so I’d love to share it…

Five Public Speaking Lessons we can Learn from Meryl Streep *…

One of the reasons  I decided to switch my website over to Blogger was because of the ease of embedding elements such as video here.…

Book Review: The Aso-ebi Chronicles

It is agreed that a good book can have the ability to transport its reader to a place or time that a plane ticket or…