Comments on: IWD: Honouring African Women - Part 2

By: Oreshade Adewale

Oreshade Adewale — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:39:21 +0000

MOTHERLINESS
Motherliness I say,
Is not only pregnancy,

For prostitutes get pregnant,
And give birth to fatherless sons.

Motherliness I say,
With keen love in her soul.

Is about climbing mountains,
So high & spiky,
That even d dreadful warriors,
Run cowardly far from.

Motherliness I say,
With care in her heart.

Is about falling in valleys,
So fierce & deep,
That all tiara of trust,
Have fearfully ran from.

Motherliness I say,
With peace in her mind.

Is about swimming oceans,
So wide & cold,
That even fish friends,
Have refused to swim.

Motherliness I say,
Is not only to give birth,

With tiring labour of life,
For animals also do.

All around d globe now,
I look for mothers,
Like d predators hunting,
Wildly for a plesant prey.

Then suddenly I found this mother of love,
That has attained immortality,
Let every man hear me loud,
YOU ARE A MOTHER.
08.07.08 09.40pm
I wrote this poem to Mrs. Fatayi-Williams & thought I should reproduce it here,dedicated to Marie & other Mothers like her :-) x x x

By: Nnebaby

Nnebaby — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:27:55 +0000

I’d like to appreciate Nigerian women in diaspora for their effort in caring for their families. It is tough being a mother in a country where there’s no one to help you. You juggle being a wife, a mother, a career woman, etc. With little or no social life, she goes about with a smile on her face trying to please everyone.

May God continue to strengthen them. May their labour never be in vain.

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » KenyanSphere this week

Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » KenyanSphere this week — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:51:27 +0000

[...] Kenyan Bloggers celebrated International womens day this past wednesday, with their entries being covered by global voices in Part 1 and part 2. Several gentlemen also joined the women in celebrating this day. Magaidi has a tribute, Ntwiga honors his wife Njeri, his mom and Wangari Maathai; Kenyan Analyst shares a piece about Liberia’s Ellen Sirleaf Johnson. [...]

By: Open Blog: KenyaUnlimited » KenyanSphere this week

Open Blog: KenyaUnlimited » KenyanSphere this week — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:29:30 +0000

By: Donna Akuamoah

Donna Akuamoah — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:31:40 +0000

For everytime you spared buying necessities for yourself, so we, your children, could have what we wanted for school…….for everytime I woke up deep in the night, to hear you crying in prayer for the lost, the sad, the children of the night…….for everytime I watched you hover over me and wash me with concern because I was sick, burning with fever, unable to eat.
For all these times and more, you built confidence in me,
It is for you today I soar, flying high above racism or even inequality,
Because you taught me that with the Omnipotent One, Onyame, by myside
impossible is nothing, and you will be always be there,
in stumbles and in glory,
To smile proudly saying:” Yes she was raised by me, Mother Africa, the warrior”

Donna.
Sokari, I love these writings.Thanks for sharing them with me.

By: uaridi

uaridi — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:24:47 +0000

Thank you Sokari for reminding us to do this. I hope that one day we shall have more than just one day to celebrate all women

By: learner

learner — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:55:25 +0000

Blessed be the women in our lives if not for them there would be no us.
learner

By: Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:24:22 +0000

Sokari, This is a beautiful idea, thank you so much for honoring African women this way! This reminds me that you were going to write a piece for the Women Writing Resistance in Africa collection on the Nigerian Delta women who are resisting the oil companies’ exploitation. We would still love to get that piece from you! Please be in touch if you can–
All best,
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
browdy@simons-rock.edu