What’s Rocking My World – #1

I travel a lot. I spend a lot of time all over the country and different parts of the world, … More

#BlackinScandinavia: Where is home?

by Akilah “Kiki” Monifa Stardate 12/10/16 Stockholm– It’s Nobel Day and I have been here for 8 days. In addition … More

#BlackinScandinavia: 10 Things I Learned About the M/S Birger Jarl Hostel and Hotel

A hotel is not a hostile unless it’s both. M/S Jarl Hotel and Hostel is the bomb dot com according to Arise2ptoh

#BlackinScandinavia: “10 Things I learned about Pop House”

I am an ABBA fan, who isn’t. When I was here in October, I was obsessed with getting to ABBA … More

#BlackinScandinavia:Kiki interviews Dwayne Powell and More

“there is way more than America, it is so small to be that big. Get the hell out of there people” And when you are in Scandinavia, “you are not a nigga, in America you are every mother fucking day and even black people judge one another.”

Editor’s Note

by Akilah “Kiki” Monifa Stardate 12/6/16 Stockholm– 40 years ago, at age 19 I wrote in my journal that … More

#BlackInScandinavia: 10 Things I Learned about Norwegian

by Akilah “Kiki” Monifa I first came to Stockholm, Sweden because it was on my bucket list. I needed a … More