As you may know, I co-organise the Nairobi Chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science. What […]
AI Needs Diversity For Success
Happy International Women’s Day 2018
ALbeit “Women’s” month is over, here’s a video commemorating Women’s Day made by my amazing employer Africa’s Talking. […]
Dear Men, I Hope This Post Makes You Uncomfortable — Thoughts on Sexual Harassment
It is Sunday. I am in Douala. The heat is sweltering. The walk from the hotel I am staying at and the venue of the conference I am here to attend nearly melts me. By the time I get there, the conference venue, my Africa’s Talking t-shirt is stuck to my sweaty back. I stand by an air conditioner, my back to it, to cool off.
The Pseudo-Biological Clock
I am 22 years old. Naturally this is the average age of my closest friends, the people I have grown up and gone to school with. The early twenties. I went to a girls school for most of my life and even after school I have found that among my close circle of friends, there are more girls than boys.
Let’s talk about the biological clock now. Is it something that women actually feel? Or is it a social construct that tells a woman it is about time she took up her role as wife and possibly mother because looking around all her peers seem to be doing it? Or is it a manifestation of the advanced neurological development characteristic of girls? Or is the fact that women have so much pressure put upon them to be in control of everything and take care of everyone while the men kinda just need to show up?