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Sexual Harassment Is Just As Detrimental As Rape

#BlackLivesMatter and #SayNoToRape have been trending all week, as they should, given the horrific stories and deaths that have plagued the media. Most of us seem to be focused on

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THE AFTERMATH

You’ve read the stories. We Are Here: The Attack. We Are Here: The Hunt. We Are Here: The Retribution. And I was a survivor of the experience. In the stories,

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THE SECURITY POST

In the beginning, he was just another member of the security at the gate of my street, one of the men I greeted every time I was headed out or

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How An Unlawful Arrest Led To Uchenna Samuel Noble Breaking The Silence

EDITOR’S WORD: When I learned of what happened to the Delta-based human rights activist, Uchenna Samuel Noble, and we talked about the story getting shared on Kito Diaries, he said

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STILL TOP OR NOW BOTTOM?

Several weeks ago, I was invited to birthday party by a friend (we’d been chatting on Grindr and eventually WhatsApp). And I’d only met him once prior to the time

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A HOLD ON ME

My phone beeped on the first of January 2020, and I checked to see what text was, believing it was the usual disturbance from my service provider. It wasn’t. It

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JUST LIKE OLIVER TWIST (A Chain Of Unhappiness)

EDITOR’S NOTE: The beginning part of this story, JUST LIKE OLIVER TWIST, was told back in January. And since then, there have been developments to the lives of the people

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The L Word

I don’t know if I’m alone on this, but the ease with which guys fall for the person they’re romantically or sexually linked with is beyond ridiculous to me. Reading

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CROSSING LINES

Something recently happened to me that I will like to share. The story begins a year ago, when I got a new job. It was an entry level position, which

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I SEE MONSTERS

1 “I do not know how monsters are made, but I know that they are.” – Wole Soyinka, A Play of Giants (Paraphrased). It must have been in Primary five