Author name: Dr Michelle Yaa Asantewa

A collage of the picture post on Big Smith’s Facebook page Some of you may have read my last blog […]

I arrived in Guyana one week after the Camp Street Fire that burnt down Guyana’s infamous top security prison. Located

Reluctant ParticipantThe theme ‘Dreaming Diaspora: Doing Diaspora’ sounded fluffy. This wasn’t the reason I didn’t initially want to go to

It is a serious indictment of our society that amidst the disaster, grief and anger of the Grenfell Fire that

‘The unexamined life is not worth living: and I know that self-delusion in no matter what small or lofty cause

A few years ago I discovered something interesting about myself. I have the planet Jupiter in the 12th house of

The first time we met we had a disagreement. I don’t recall exactly what we argued about. He had been

“Most African born people do not recall a precise ceremony of that kind and function, not in the original traditions.