Category: Umi Briefs

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. Some inspiring wordsOne thing we want to know…What are you doing to celebrate yourself this weekend? It is yet another mother’s day and yes, we deserve it. As we celebrate you, we hope you would…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. This week is for mums.Umi literally means “Mother” or “Life giver”. So, you best believe we will jump on any and every avenue we have to celebrate us. Africa is rich. We are truly blessed.…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. Another mother’s day is coming up this weekend. We are so fortunate. We get to be God’s right hand persons to complete the job of creation. I know all too well that this job of…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. An average parent in this century wants their children to speak multiple languages. African parents even more. Because we love to communicate and we want our kids to be able to stand before any audience…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. Some tweets were flying around last weekend of parents who out of ignorance, ego or outright wickedness prevented their kids from pursuing a dream that could have turned their lives around for good. And that…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. A few things to noteOne question to ask yourself this weekendAm I being very intentional with the words I speak to my kids? Words are powerful. Even the things you say on the cuff and…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. The break is over, kids are back in school this week. What an amazing experience it was having them at home for that period. Being able to bond with them, spend some quality time and…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. We are grateful for the gift of our little ones. They are adorable; they literally light up every room. We are so blessed and honoured to have them. But they can also be pretty exhausting…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. One of my guilty pleasures is to watch the series, “Madam Secretary” over and over again. It relaxes me. I learn a lot about diplomacy. But what gets me every time I watch it is…

For black maternal health week It’s black maternal health week, Lovelies. What better time to remind you of how precious you are than now.The maternal mortality rate in Africa is still high. Lot of mothers, especially those in rural communities have died from complications during childbirth. Lots of mothers still do not take antenatal and…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. A few things to noteOne question to ask yourselfHow am I teaching my kids practical life skills? Like I said in yesterday’s newsletter, we all make plans to do these things. But we never get…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. We are phenomenal mums. I have spoken to a few of you reading this newsletter, and exchanged emails with some as well. And from what I see, I know that you are phenomenal. We are…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. I wrote a post earlier about child spacing and I love the feedback about how it resonated with you. Some of you even said you learnt new things. These things matter to me.Now, I thought…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. A few things to noteOne question to ask yourselfWhere’s my head at?This past week has been quite challenging. Outside of the challenges of work and been under the weather the whole week, my toddler is…

Different, not less. Please read each links if you have a neurodivergent kid.It was World Autism Awareness Day on Tuesday, so I thought it was time we put a spotlight on neurodiversity/divergence in this newsletter.Neurodiversity or Neurodivergence are often used interchangeably to represent people who function differently than neurotypical people in society. Neurotypical people are…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. Welcome to a new month, Gorgeous. May this month be good to you and your family.We are starting this month with a bang. Updating/Refreshing our knowledge of vaginal health.Everyone wants to keep it clean down…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. A few things to noteOne thing to ask”What are the most important aspects of your faith/religion that you would like to see in your kids?” For us, it is “love thy neighbour”, generosity to strangers…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. It’s Easter weekend and Ramadan fasting is going on. I thought this was a perfect time to talk about this. Religion is universal. Everyone is devoted to something. We all have something that we believe…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. One of the things that I struggled with after I became a mum was self confidence. Even more so because I was just getting my groove on as a professional. Being a mum, I wanted…

Supporting mums in Africa and diaspora with information, connection, and community needed to care for themselves and their little ones. A few things to think aboutOne thing to ask yourselfWhy am I sabotaging myself?One thing that I am always very conscious about is to do absolutely all that I can do, maximizing whatever understanding of…