DEAR DIARY: Hail all women in Parliament

>It was just last week when I wrote about street harassment. I talked about two videos I had seen, one was of a male journalist in Egypt who disguised himself as a woman. He experienced physical and verbal abuse.

 I am excited to share with you this edition of Woman. I have been behind the scenes editing without much interaction with you dear readers for the past one year and a couple of months but from this point on, there is no going back.

I met this woman who had a black eye while leaving home for work. So I stopped and after exchanging pleasantries asked her what happened to her eye. This is all she had to say, “Domi alinipiga ngumi”. Loosely translated to mean Domi punched me.

>Bring back our girls! It seems like everywhere I turn, that is what I see people chanting about after more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Islamic extremists, Boko Haram. The US First Lady Michelle Obama even posted a photo of herself holding a placard with the plea! People in the West, East have all joined hands to raise one voice, bring back our girls.

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I met this woman who had a black eye while leaving home for work. So I stopped and after exchanging pleasantries asked her what happened to her eye. This is all she had to say, "Domi alinipiga ngumi". Loosely translated to mean Domi punched me.

>Leaving on a Jet plane is a song by John Denver, but most people will identify it with its first line All my bags are packed I’m ready to go. My mother loved this song and she hummed it every morning under the bougainvillaea tree as she took a nap. Sooner or later her demise hit us like thunder on a sunny day.

>I added a weave on my head last week, and it always amazes me how one small change on your body can make a huge difference on your looks – negative or positive. I was particularly intrigued about what the salonist had to say about the new weave in town.

>Women vote for good looking men. Don’t we? Before you protest, hold it, hold it ladies… We don’t have to look very far to test the theory. Our dear President is a good example. If you voted for JK, how many of you would say that his looks didn’t cross your mind at all when you were voting? Be truthful now.

>A friend of mine wrote something on her Facebook page that put me on a reflection-mode. Her last year was a tough one and she had a sort of ‘theme’ to help her go through it.