hello to the women of the future and the present. i was faced by this question today. i was crisply asked by a non-muslim guy, but a guy from an african background. and he said,"do you believe in polygamy?" he is a writer, and one of his stories deals with this issue, how it deals with it i don't know, nor is it relevant to what am trying to ask here.me, by being to open-minded and thoughtful, having the ability to have a straighforward answer was hard. didn't know where to start, for the word 'believe' does not come into play on my answering the question. so, being a young muslim woman, having the life i have, the exposure to alot of different issues dealing with women. was in a bit speechless, interms of answering the straight answer of a yes i do, or no i don't. because this is a hard embedded question. religously it is allowed, and i respect that because there are reasons to a polygynous marriage, compared to if the dude was just a mere pervert, who couldn't keep his hands to himself sort of thing, and wants everylittle walking thing to be his(his wifey). so that was my explaination, in brief, but then the next one went, "so u don't mind being the second wife?" and the answer was short, No.(mind u this had nothing to do with those pickup line things-i know some peeps would be why is she talking to this freak, lol) As i said, the issue becomes, since am not in that place, it becomes hard to anticipate, for i never thought of such an idea. and so i wanted to see if there are other women out there who came across this issue,and hear their views; because i believe in our societies, there are a lot of divorces that are caused by the choice of a dude marrying another babe. o, and here is another one, if men are allowed to have 4 wives/then women also should be allowed to do that. this was a statement from the same guy. and what was my status on that? well, i don't believe that is right. eventhough thinking of marriage as an instituion, and all that, also being a male dominant, structured for man's benefit. i still think there is a difference between men and women, and what each of them is capable of doing. so again, i would like to hear what my sisters and brothers if interested have to say about these issues and ideas.

lol, queen, i was just playing, i know tuko karne ya 2004, basi tena wamaasai walivyoendelea nowadays wanashika chati ya hiphop-rap. lookout for mr.ebbo with his hit Mi Maasai a taste of BongoFlava.

haha, i guess not, sawa, naona maendeleo, its all good,

lol, smart ones haa, major calculation went onto that one! lol

lol, aisee its been long sijasikia ile, napenda kutuma salamu kwa baba na mama, hii polisi ya nairobi haishi kusimamisha mimi nakuulisa, iko wapi kipande yako? ok, check this one out, during the politicasl issue in mombasa, dealing with the majority of islamic riots, in early 1990's. jama mmoja anawahadithia wenzake na kuwapa onyo. ee hapana, ukisikia ile miislamu wanapiga ile kiber! kiber!(Taqbir! Taqbir!)wee kimbia, ile maanayake ni beba mawe, ile kiber! kiber!, beba mawe rusha mawe, sasa wewe ukisika tu, kimbia, hapana mucheso, kiber! kiber!

aisee, where u got your facts girl?ni maendeleo namna hiyo sasa? i thought the maasai girl doesn't need any expensive dinner, but buy her a herd of a cattle and the shal wed.au siku hizi ni modernized?

and stop hatin on chess players, some of us are learnin.haha

its interesting how Swahili is always at the bottom of the line, while all these european languages come first, even if some of the peeps don't speak it fluently. is that done purposely or just happened?

sisters please, proactive is not the solution, especially on the description you have, don't mean to be rude from the sister above. its just because i have the acne issues, and man, was i the first person to run for proactive, but it screwed up the skin. i suggest see a dermatoligist, and drink lots of H2o and if u are a sportive/active dudet, by all means, start running, it will help to all my sisters, there is nothing like running!ok, i'll hash up now, haha

when u have time, please look into this, this came to my attention, and mind u, am still in shock and disbelief on what is going on. Islamic Hip hop, wat is this now? checkout the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/documentaries/islamichiphop.shtml

feminism to femininity. a debate that will never stop, just a quick comment for the brother up there, who used the name of Allah and pimpin, bro, don't mean to be picky, i uunderstand what u were intelling, but please sometimes, there are lines to be drawn. now for the topic of feminism, i would like to ask, what is feminism? is feminism this western ideology? or something that has existed in our ancestors lives long time before in the heart of the continent? you see there are so many things that people are not aware of, that become whitewashed/brainwashed due to not knowing or not being exposed to cultures and education, when i mean education, it is not what u read in the books but also what u learn from seeing, and experiencing. so i shall not make any comment on what a man and woman should do etc, but i would just aks for people to think in the context of their visibillity, lifestyle, culture, faith and where is it that they want to lead too, their goals for the future.

what progress does this give to the african nations? how about supporting the pharmaceutical companies there, interms of funding and providing machines to let the people help themselves, instead of dumping useless medications to the societies.

it has nothing with delay, other than testing, africans have become guinea pigs to a lot of things, the major issue now is, if they allow these pharmaceutical companies freedom to test their drugs on the people, the continent will be in a disaster of side effects to these medicine, worse those people are not like north americans, who could sue a pharmaceutical company, after a point of realization that it is medication A that causes this and that. so for those who are in Canada, you guuys have a say to stop this, because it would be madness.

Milo, is good in powder form! haha, cause thats how i eat it, lol am, i don't know if u guys would like to try this, pretty nice, am an experimentor, enjoy mixing foods, and have a sweet tooth too! haha so check it, u know the normal meal of baaris with sauce and u have your banana aside, instead of banana try it with mango or pineapple,or even papaya, am tellin u, its the best!sandwiches, on top of a little mayo and ketchup, add salad dressing, gives the salad sandwich or chicken sandwich a nice flavourish taste!

if you guys are interested on attending the debate, by all means, if not, still this is an issue to be discussed, for i believe it will be the largest guinea pig experiment launched by canada, if passing this bill, to africa. what do u guys think?!

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hey i know most of the uni's mentioned are from the east and south, how about nigeria? yes i know, us easterners are tired to hear of it, atleast i know am tired of listenning to the bragging of the elite'ism from nigeria. haha, elite'ism ain't a word, but just created it, haha. anywas, i know a couple of graduates from there, one of them my professor, so i mean, it doesn't heart to check it out. also famous african writers have graduated from these instituitons too, chinua achebe, wole soyinka and so forth

about time someone starts this indeed, i always ask around the communities about having somali language classes. but i guess the first thing you say u are somali and don't speak somali everyone laughs at you. mojam, that was well presented, thankyou, question to those who know the language so well, how is the sentence structure like? is it like french to english, swahili to english, arabic to english?

mojam-the native is innocent, done nothing, just being a native in the central location of the drugcartel trans. geer-i would suggest for u to think more thoughfully on your pic of c, hint hint

hey i looked at the website, but i haven't seen any kingdoms coming from the east coast as in tanzania the nyamwezi, cameroon king njoya, come on now, there is more to be researched-i mean this njoya dude created his own written format of language before even the europeans arriving and it was in a form of characters and drawings. kaka wabonga kiswahili? maana naona bendera ya kenya kwa kali. haha

the above is cool, am familiar with that, haha here is another question Scenerio: you are in Colombia walking down the streets, some drug cartel guys pick u up, and take you to a village within the forests. they line up the natives there men women and children. they give u a gun and tell you to shoot one man, and you will be released. if you don't shoot any you will join the line and all be killed. Question: what would u do? shoot to survive or choose to join the line?

hey this is so cool, ok, now question with this creditcard business, what if u are not dealing with a bank, but just companies?mnba and them, and would it work with cibc?

"Great is the power of truth, which can easily defend itself by its own force." by Marcus Tullius Cicero

this is wonderful, about time we are discussing the next step to be taken to a new change within the continent of Africa. the artical is quite interesting, something that opened my eyes to something else, i have always contemplated on this ideology of how could we make the continent free of exploitation. eventhough which ever way you head, there are always flaws within it. but the questions are, are the flaws worse than the reconstruction of the new trend~will the project work for the better good, than deconstruction? anyways, so many things to think about. the idea of somali's with the clan issue, it is just a scapegoat to alot of things. it is not only the mindset that people need to come out from, but to understand what the reallity is, instead of floating in the air, to have their feet firmly on the ground-this is what we need! i believe clans are things that are atleast left for us, the distinguishment of being an african compared to another human being in the world. moreover, people tend to ignore the idea of culture, in a sense, things as art-the typical identity of ones practice. and so thrown in with the facade of clan being bad-the fault of the war etc etc etc IT IS TIME FOR A REVOLUTION

hello there interesting comments on the issue of nurudin up there, the only thing is, if life hits you hard sometimes, as being an artist, you gotta give in, inorder to make a living. so that might be something that a commentor up there might think about. now then, there are quite a number of authors i came across with. Sembene Ousmane, very good author and director, for those who are not too much in books, i would suggest to check out his movies, and for the readers, checkout 'God's Bits of Wood'. Chinua Achebe i must say he did hurt a little bit of my brain while reading 'Arrow of God'. Amos Tutuola is someone to checkout, interesting way of writing. Nardine Gordimer, not a fan, but it depends on the reader, interesting way of writing, from South Africa. another author Peter Abrahams, again from South Africa, check out 'Mine Boy'. Jamal Mahjoub and Leila Abouleil from Sudan, interesting issues dealing on migration. Jack Mapanji from Malawi, interesting poems, also Sly Cheney from Sierra Leone. am Yvonne Vera-'opening spaces: a womens contemporary anthology' something like that, it gives you a brief short writers in there from Madagascar,Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sudan,Zambia, and so forth. a good intro to african womens writing and the issues within the context of Africa, Ama Ata Aidoo, neat writer, check out 'Changes:A Love Story'. Maja Pearce with his anthology of poetry. Wole Soyinka with his plays and poetry, neat writer, some deep and revolutionic issues, straight to the core of the destabilization of the CONTINENT. Homi Bhabha, and there is so much else, when i remember i'll let you guys know. there is so much out there, sadly i haven't had the time to finish one of Nurudiin's books, but will be in time, but from the couple of pages i was reading, i new i was gonna go into a rollercoaster and brain hurting reading. YET IT IS WORTH EVERY MINUTE! READING IS AN EYEOPENER TO THE MIND.