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Castle of my Skin
excerpts from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s “Decolonising he Mind”
Akosua Biraa
Jun 15, 20222 min read


Sudden Storm
a metaphor for my life lately
Akosua Biraa
Jun 12, 20222 min read


Choice-less observing
excerpts from Jay Ghee’s “A Course on Self-Knowledge”
Akosua Biraa
Jun 9, 20221 min read


Love is...
Remembrance of the Real Self
Akosua Biraa
Jun 6, 20221 min read


Weaving incredible stories
excerpts from Grace Nichols’s “Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman”
Akosua Biraa
Jun 3, 20221 min read


Such is Beauty
the quest in truth
Akosua Biraa
May 31, 20221 min read


I saw Paradise at dawn
excerpts from Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya's “Doorkeeper of the Heart”
Akosua Biraa
May 28, 20221 min read


So in a colonial territory
excerpts from Kwame Nkrumah’s “Consciencism”
Akosua Biraa
May 25, 20222 min read


We all want go back home
excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Akosua Biraa
May 22, 20221 min read


The Master is her own physician
excerpts from Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching”
Akosua Biraa
May 19, 20222 min read


Neti-Neti
from ego negation to no - thing
Akosua Biraa
May 16, 20221 min read


Wake Up
life is but a nightmare dreaming
Akosua Biraa
May 13, 20221 min read


A WOMAN IN LOVE AND OTHER STRANGE BEHAVIORS
excerpts from Maitena’s “Women on the Edge 4”
Akosua Biraa
May 10, 20221 min read


Meditate
Go from paranoia to metanoia.
Akosua Biraa
May 7, 20221 min read


promise me
excerpts from Lorraine Hansberry's "Les Blancs"
Akosua Biraa
May 4, 20221 min read


up close
excerpts from S. Yizhar’s “Khirbet Khizeh”
Akosua Biraa
May 1, 20221 min read


my recurring dream
excerpts from Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
Akosua Biraa
Apr 29, 20221 min read


it triples the anger
excerpts from Joe Sacco’s “Paying the Land”
Akosua Biraa
Apr 26, 20221 min read


Solitude
return to the heart of matter
Akosua Biraa
Apr 23, 20221 min read


Stillness
It works every time
Akosua Biraa
Apr 20, 20221 min read
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