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The Novelty of Lagos

3/30/12 8:18am by the.me.i.be
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Eleven years had distorted my memories of Nigeria. Children, depression, abandonment of my PhD, the near death of my marriage all happened in the space between visits. Nigeria 2010 was better than I remembered. So was I.Chinua Achebe called Nigeria "dirty, callous & vulgar, a place of unrelenting selfishness." It's also a public urinal. Men piss everywhere (and I do mean everywhere!) By day 3, I could only marvel "how is this place not swimming in piss?"  Read more >

What If...

3/16/12 5:52am by the.me.i.be
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What if I stopped rejecting my woman's body for women's history month? What if I stood naked in front of a full length mirror, looked myself in the eye & said what I've never been able to say to myself with a straight face: "You are beautiful."What if I thanked my body because it knows how to heal itself from injury & defend itself from germs? What if I thanked it because it rises to meet the demands I make on it, even when I don't give it the fuel it needs to function properly?  Read more >

No One Outside Africa Believes Africa Can Fix Itself

3/7/12 2:47pm by the.me.i.be
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 Hoping is hard. I learned that in 2008 when a Black man whose middle name is Hussein & whose last name rhymes with Osama ran for US President. And won. I'll never forget it. Hoping is hard - sometimes there is nothing harder. But you can't give in.  Read more >

Immigration and the B*stard in Me

3/2/12 1:07pm by the.me.i.be
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If you were slapped, whipped, lied on, degraded, threatened, humilated, called a whore from the ages of 12 to 21, then you escaped & went on to live your American dream... you'd have a helluva story to tell. Your name would be Ola*. You started out in America as a child slave trafficked from West Africa to cook, clean & nanny for your cousin's family of 5. You'd be my age now. You'd be my friend & neighbor. Our daughters would be BFFs.   Read more >

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ruminations & insights from a spiritual seeker (and other not so spiritual stuff)

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the.me.i.be
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December 2011
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seeker, writer, wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, neighbor, stranger, dreamer, Believer, blogger, bare footer, globe trotter, work in progress...  

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Writer (name it & claim it)
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Washington, DC

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