A Kenyan in Cambodia

Hi lovelies, I apologize for the lack of updates/articles on my little blog. I have been on holiday in Kenya for 6 weeks now and I still have a few more to go. I have some interesting posts for you all once my holiday is over, but for now I am just enjoying every little minute spent with my family, friends and the people close to me :) Cheers, Maggie

Some of you have probably seen the hashtag #blackout or #blackoutday trending on your twitter, facebook, tumblr and instagram newsfeeds. I thought I'd write a really short blog post about this. Anyway the hashtag was started by T'von, the guy behind  this  tumblr page. And it is a very simple concept, he invited all black people to take a photo of themselves and hashtag it #blackout or #blackoutday (there's a few other variations). He got inspired to start this because he realized that he does not see lots of black people on a regular basis on his tumblr dashboard (or represented in the media in general). He was, like majority of black people, just tired of seeing the European beauty of standards prevailing and being shoved down our throats left right and center (for centuries now) I am not saying that European/white people are not beautiful, of course they are. What I am saying is that black people are beautiful too, but the European standards of beauty (ESB) excludes ...

Hello lovelies, I had the opportunity to participate in an amazing project called PORTRAITS. The artist behind this project (IMPREINT) painted 1000 balloons a few years ago and while he was doing this, he realised that all the balloons were different, imperfect but all beautiful and just like those balloons, all human beings are different, we are all imperfect, but we are ALL BEAUTIFUL. That's when he decided to do portraits, and invite people from all over the world to get together and participate in it. Thereby making a simple everyday object like a balloon unify us all. Check out his  website  and  facebook page . I am so happy my little blog was featured on his facebook page. Of course together with other amazing blogs. I absolutely love this project because the concept that we all beautiful regardless of how different we look, regardless of how imperfect we are, really resonates with me. For me the bottom line is we are all human, we...

Follow my Instagram  maggie_hon for snippets of my life in Cambodia and some of my travel adventures. Hey lovelies, so I will write a couple of late posts that I should have written a million months ago. Late last year I got to go to Malaysia for a weekend getaway with two of my girlfriends and we had so much fun.  My girlfriends I absolutely love African food and African music and I know there is a big African community in Kuala Lumpur, and where there’s an African community, there is bound to be a couple of African Restaurants. And by African restaurants I really mean Nigerian Restaurants :D See in any African Expat community, Nigerians always make up the majority, so in any given country there’s bound to be a couple of Nigerian Restaurants, bars and clubs where Nigerian expats converge, eat Nigerian food and listen to Nigerian music. I love Nigerian food and music and so do a lot of other Africans and people from all over the world. So the first thing I did when pla...

Hey lovelies, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and happy new year wherever you were. I had an amazing time in Bali Indonesia where I spent Christmas and New Years, and I can't wait to tell you all about that (after I tell you all about my long weekend in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, God am so behinddddd) and I promise it will be soon. Today I would like to make a short little announcement. I was asked to give a presentation about the challenges facing black Africans here in Cambodia and in Southeast Asia in general, and of course I said yes. See the thing is, being a black in Cambodia is not easy, but being a black African?? maan that shit is hard. The odds are NEVER in your favour, you'll get treated like trash, it is a nightmare to do the simplest of things such as extend your visa, travel etc. Which is really sad as I believe we are all equal. No human being should be treated better or worse than another based ont he color of their skin, or religion, or sexual orientation o...