I took Grant to my motherland in 2020, I told him a lot about my culture and my origin as he told me about his.So last summer was time for me to visit his ancestor’s land. Ireland, the land of Saints and Scholars. We stayed in Dublin and visited some beautiful sights in the Bourne […]
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I have been a fan of Sauti Sol for many years. When I started dating my husband, I introduced him to the band and he was hooked lol. He loves their song Suzana and he sometimes plays it on his guitar 🎸 I did not get a chance to see them when they first came to
Urubugu/Igisoro is one of the games that my cousins taught me how to play when I was 9 years old. It is not common for a big city kid to know how to play Urubugu. It is a two player game where the players set their beads on the board and attempt to move in
Last month I reunited with a teacher that played a big role in my life, my 3rd grade teacher, Monsieur Alibaba Kabwe aka Alimasi. When we started the school year, he divided our class into three rows: goats, tigers and lions. We all start in the goat row, we had to earn promotions from goat
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I have always wanted to go to Zanzibar, I lived country next to it and never got a chance to go there but it was one of the things on my bucket list. When I met my husband, he already knew a lot more about Tanzania than I did (he took African history classes in
Today we went to Keeneland, the place where we first met. It was April 2019 when my girlfriends and I had brunch and then went to Keeneland afterwards. We arrived and had our drinks and then some of us started to bet on horses. After some of my friends won their bets, we had to
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My husband and I have a soft spot and so much love for Latin countries. In March of this year, I decided I would surprise my husband with a trip in Panama for our 1 year wedding anniversary, so I had to find a way to purchase the flight tickets and book our accommodation without
Today was another day where we tried out an Italian restaurant in town, this time we went to Frank and Dino’s. My husband was the one who spotted it downtown, I was surprised that he saw it before me since I am usually the quicker one to spot restaurants downtown. We have been talking about
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When I first moved to the United States I struggled with American food. I was not used to food with no stew. Any African would know what I am talking about. East Africans eat everything with stew, it could be beef, goat, fish or lamb. When I moved here and discovered food didn’t come with
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On Mother’s Day this year we bought some tickets for a Cincinnati Reds game since my mother-in-law’s favorite baseball team is the Cincinnati Reds, and with all the craziness in the past few years she has not been able to go to a game. It was an experience for me too since it was my very
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