Today sees the start of Garifuna Awareness week. A lot of the activities between Monday and Wednesday will take place during the day at schools around Belmopan but the big event (for me) is the Punta Fest on Thursday night in Dangriga. 12 hours of non-stop music, dance and … [Read more...]

Tonight I am off to Cayo (again!) to watch an international friendly between then Belize u17 national team and the El Salvador 'grown up' national team. I know I have loads of work to do but I have spent the last few hours debating who to cheer for seeing as I am neither … [Read more...]

When I wrote this post the focus was on the response I got from other people with locks (mainly black men), this posting is a follow up but with a difference. I was making my way to the market for lunch and coming towards me was a white couple, holding hands and looking … [Read more...]

There are three poems written by black women about black women which I really like. As the title of this posting suggests one of them is Maya Anegelou's Phenomenal Woman. The second one is Of Course When They Ask For Poems About The 'Realities' of Black Women by Grace Nichols … [Read more...]

Kenya is one of the places where there is huge gap between 'the have s' and 'the have-nots'. There are varying degrees of 'haves' and 'have-nots' but nothing in between. I know that our family fall within the haves and one thing I can say is that there is certain amount of … [Read more...]