How does one deal with the burden and stigma of AIDS? This is a true life story from Angola.

To men this article might seem redundant but before you switch screens, did you know that wedding and planning a wedding are the most important event in a woman’s life. And if you really want to know your bride-to-be, just watch how she reacts when her wedding plans are not going accordingly, the ‘bridezilla’ (angry bride) comes out…

Esther Garvi is a friend/member of the AfricanLoft Community. She interfaces with two contrasting worlds: Niger and Norway/Sweden, and just lost her mom recently. She’s back with her family in Norway, she reminisces on her second home, Niger, and her mother:
“I wish I could take part of Niger with me everywhere I went. A bit [...]

This is a true life story…
Kelechi thought nothing of it when her interviewer commented on her name and her accent. She simply answered that she was African and she felt that it was over and done. She passed the extensive interview process and got the job. She arrived on time for her [...]

I say a big thanks to the contestants for stepping out of their ways to participate in this year’s Valentine’s Competition. Your participation made the competition great; there is just so much love warm wishes floating through the Loft the last couple of days.
Due to the fact that we didn’t have the minimum 50 [...]

The whole notion of sperm banks aroused a bunch of questions one of which is - would a sperm bank work in Nigeria, or even in Africa? And if yes, what are the socio-cultural constraints or factors to consider?

I have a question for the lawyers out there: Is there a way that a man can stipulate in his will that he does not want his wife participating in certain cultural practices that are completely in humane? I think that it is completely unfair that the widow is made to drink the water used to wash her husband’s dead body or that she is made to cut her hair. There are even cases in which she is made to sleep in the same room as her dead husband and many times, she is made to marry her dead husband’s brother…