A few months ago, I wrote an article about the bridewealth custom (also known as bride-price) practiced in many Sub-Saharan African...

I gained a couple extra pounds over the last few months, seemingly appearing out of nowhere and for no apparent reason. As a former...

Don’t have sex until you’re married: that pretty much sums up the sex education I received as a prepubescent girl. Meanwhile, the boys...

Get married, buy a house with a white picket fence, fill it with 2 children, and buy a minivan—this is the “American Dream” and the...

At age 10, there was nothing I wanted more than to wear a bra. Some girls in my grade had already started wearing training bras, and I...

As a Black girl growing up in Sub-Saharan Africa, I never questioned the merits of the long-standing bridewealth custom (locally referred...