The Hibiscus Notes

It still amazes and irritates me in equal doses that some Western journalists think they can visit countries in Africa for relatively short ...

In the past two months, I've lost loved ones and been close to people who have lost their loved ones too and every time death comes, I t...

I'd like to think of myself as a good mummy, certainly above average. If asked to score myself out of 10, I'd say 7.5 on most days a...

There is a scene in Katori Hall's new play on broadway about Martin Luther King Jr which sees Angela Basset's character deliver a m...

Yes, I know the title of this post sounds absurd doesn't it but that's precisely what a black male author is suggesting in a recent...

Can I just say in my defence that I've resisted weighing in on the case against Dominique Strauss Kahn for some weeks now. The reason fo...

A friend of mine called last week to tell me she was just sat next to Oprah in a hotel restaurant somewhere in the English countryside. As ...