Morocco

I’ll be completely honest, I was afraid to travel to Morocco. Call it irrational, call it ignorance, call it “American media syndrome”, etc. I didn’t know how an Islamic country (even in Africa) would receive me – an African-American, Christian, Female. I had a very uncomfortable experience on a crowded train in Istanbul and was […]

Ghana

I’m always proud to say that I’m Ghanaian, well Ghanaian-American. If you can believe it there was a time when I didn’t feel that way. Up to age 13, I wasn’t fed healthy images of Africa from the media (surprise, surprise) and that one day in black history month each year when we talked about […]

Cape Town

I traveled to Cape Town for a World Conference that my church, Every Nation, hosts in different locations ever 3 years. It was my first time in attendance and I was taken aback by how uplifting this overall experience was, not only in the beauty of the country – a safari, tour of the beautiful […]