Annex Achieng is a freelance journalist and writer. Her Children’s book ‘Molly’s Vote’ is out now on Amazon. To read more articles by Annex, click here

Annex Achieng
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Annex Achieng has written 8 articles for Pinkvox

Annex Achieng was born not so long ago -she’d like to believe-but it’s been decades. She started work as a journalist one day in 1997. Newsrooms then were smoking dens and typewriters were vogue. The job was interesting but sometimes repetitive. Conferences can be annoying. To escape, temporarily, she applied for the much coveted Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) scholarship and won. She flew to England almost immediately via Israel. Annex lives in South London with her husband Luigi. They will soon adopt a dog. She says that writing is for those who feel that they can never sleep until they’ve jotted their daily thoughts down. She tutors privately and continues to write and work as a foreign correspondent for the East African Newspaper. She considers herself rather fortunate to have met The Queen, once very close indeed.


  1. Want to achieve more? Do Less!

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    | EconomiX, WorkLife
    August 8, 2012
    Britain’s Conservative Party declared recently that the country’s salvation out of this double dip financial fog would be if we all ‘work harder’. We must become better slaves to spread sheets and or be chained to the desk a little longer doing whatever it is busy people do all day....
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  2. Stop the Code of (DIS)Honour

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    | Cognizance, Society
    June 13, 2012
    It’s your sweet sixteen soon. You are excited. You are in your room, day dreaming and planning the ultimate party when Mum budges in and tells you that you have to marry your cousin in Pakistan. You are horrified: You want to go to college and get a job- you...
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  3. Too smart to breed ?

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    | OurLives, Society
    May 16, 2012
    When TV historian Lucy Worsley remarked about being ‘educated out of motherhood’ and ‘being the poster child for opting out of reproduction’ we all wondered whether the longer you stayed in academia the more you were susceptible to communist type reprogramming  laid out specifically for girls with reproduction tendencies. Unlike...
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  4. The Thin Line of Decision Making

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    | OurLives, Society
    May 3, 2012
    In the beginning there was man and woman. Man never rang woman but could sometimes send thoughtless text messages, “Where R U?” and that was that. Needless to say woman didn’t waste anytime and soon moved on to the next man, and the next. The pattern was the same. Man...
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  5. I know how she does it all?

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    | OurLives, Society
    April 13, 2012
    You are most likely to have seen a trailer or had time to see the movie ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ with Sarah Jessica Parker as a harried mum trying to juggle family and job and sanity. It entertains and stresses in equal measure. This movie is similar...
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  6. Will a 21-hour week be the norm?

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    | EconomiX, WorkLife
    March 29, 2012
    My morning routine is fairly typical: I pour myself a cup of tea, go online, check my email, scan through a few tweets while keeping my TV remote control close so that I can switch over to the news during numerous commercial breaks on ‘Loose Women’-then I start my day....
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  8. Breast feeding: Why all the abuse?

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    | OurLives, Society
    February 16, 2012
    There is a time in a woman’s life when she is the bridesmaid and not the bride. Then follows another stage when she is the ‘Honorary Aunty’ to her child-full friends. I am at this latter stage. The three friends are Amber, the Gina Ford fanatic following the Contented Baby...
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