Hi ,So much digital parenting advice points at the teenager. This week, I'm turning the lens somewhere less comfortable: onto us, the parents.The most powerful influence on your teen's relationship with technology isn't a rule you set or a talk you h...

Hi ,You may have seen the age-by-age series I'm sharing this fortnight, a guide to digital parenting from the first phone at ten right through to eighteen.If you've been following along with a teenager who's already deep in their digital life, one qu...

Hi ,Today, Nigeria marks Children's Day. And I cannot only celebrate.This morning I am thinking of the 19 million Nigerian children who are not in school. Of the 5.4 million children facing acute malnutrition while we go about our day. Of the 670 sch...

Hi ,On Monday I asked you to be proud of Africa.Today I have to ask you to be angry.While we were lighting candles for Africa Day, this is what was happening on our supermarket shelves and in our medicine cabinets:→ Coca-Cola's Fanta in the UK contai...

Hi ,This Monday is Africa Day — 63 years since our founding fathers signed the OAU into existence in Addis Ababa.I want to share something with you before the day arrives, because it has been sitting on my chest.I recently watched a video that broke...

Hello ,Today is the International Day of the Boy Child.I almost didn't write this email. Then I thought of the dozens of mothers who've sat across from me, eyes filling with tears, asking the same question: "Why won't he talk to me anymore?"So here i...

Dear ,This Friday, 15 May, is the International Day of Families. The United Nations has set the 2026 theme as Families, Inequalities and Child Well-being — and I have been sitting with it for days.When the UN speaks of inequality, they mean income, h...

Dear ,I have some exciting news to share with you.A few weeks ago, I sat down with Ginevra Grasso of Conoscere TV — an internationally broadcast Italian television channel produced by CAOS Film. We talked about my book, Beyond the Goat Pen: An Africa...

Dear ,Someone in your family has probably said this to you:"You're making your children lose their culture."And maybe you believed them for a moment. Maybe you felt guilty. Maybe you questioned whether protecting your kids means they'll grow up disco...

Dear ,I am writing to you today with news that stopped me in my tracks — and I know it willstop you too.Today, a California jury delivered a landmark verdict finding Meta (Instagram) andGoogle (YouTube) legally responsible for the depression, anxiety...