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Monthly Blog/Vlog Posts Recording reality as a Cameroonian woman, Writer, Academic, Advocate, and Believer

Monique's Musings

December 26, 2023

Oct 2023: More Birthday Reflections

It’s another October and my birthday has come to pass. I recall when I was turning 30, I wrote a blog post about how I am […]
June 30, 2023

A conversation with Fungai Machirori

Last year I shared a great deal about my mental health struggles openly via my blog and this caught the interest of a ‘Digital Native’ and […]
May 25, 2023

Musings on Motherhood, Or rather Opting out of it…

Have you ever considered that the reason one may want to have kids is unhealthy? This month’s musings are on my own coming to terms with […]
January 30, 2023

A Year of Self-Love?

One of my favourite quotes is by Zora Neale Hurston and it goes: There are years that ask questions and there are years that answer. I […]
December 31, 2022

Belated Birthday Reflections…

I’m writing this in arrears. It took a while to get the words. I still don’t know if I have the right ones. And because I’m […]
August 4, 2021

On Unlearning: A lesson from A Child

Two weeks ago I came across this short video of @BeleafinFatherhood’s daughter Anaya asking for love. In it you see a little black girl, with a […]
February 22, 2021

Unlearning Episode 2: Unlearning Superwoman ideals, Suffering mentality and Normalizing luxury

This past Friday, my Ph.D. was officially conferred. I am officially Dr. Monique Kwachou. A holder of a doctor of philosophy in development studies with a […]
November 30, 2020

Unlearning Episode 1

I am jealous of the love black women, African women reserve for men. Their men, the men yet to be theirs, the men who we are […]