Amira Ali

In 1975, Morocco, under King Hassan II, invaded Western Sahara; and since, the Sahrawi people — female-dominated society of Arab and Berber descent — have been in an unflagging resistance struggle, committed to self-determination without exception.

More than just a house, our home is where the light of sunset greeted us on the north side of the windows, and on the east side sunrise enjoyed my mama’s favorite room where she braided our hair when she was not crocheting sweaters. Our home is where we communed in prayer and fasting.

Sitting miles away from where Ethiopia’s present-day drought and food insecurities due to lack of rain are unraveling, the political city of Africa, Addis Ababa, is calm inside its usual day-to-day hectic tone.

On the hazy open road
migrant’s journey under one sky
clasping suitcases
full of unspoken longings
inner complexities
memories and dreams,

As the harsh sun baked the earth, no less scorching the grass, this one Saturday in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, from late afternoon hours into the evening was for Ethiopian Classics.

Hours after nearly 1000 people marched in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the rising rate

Currently, narrating human tragedy may sound more like fiction, and perhaps fiction may have more humanity.

Stories work with people, for people, and always stories work on people, affecting what people are able to see as real, as possible, and as worth doing or best avoided – Arthur Frank

Our Women:

The shattered you
a mosaic of my mother
and other mothers too,
I stand with you.