“You are doing absolutely great. We’ll be here in a month’s time waiting for you.” I smiled and looked at my husband. “Ready for the ride again honey?” I asked. He smiled his response and [...]

My husband died in his sleep but my in laws said I killed him. How could I have killed my husband? After all, my uncle had married me off to such an old man because [...]

Entering the walls of Ronik Comprehensive School, what greets you is its quiet and unruffled environment. You can hear the silence. It welcomes you as you make your way through the walkways and hallways. Classes are in session, but you can’t really tell unless you came close enough to the classroom blocks. Only then would you witness the quality of education we received within those walls.

While someone questioned the woman’s *‘para-ing’, another could not just understand why the woman could be so ‘paranoid’. But, who knows the kind of skimpy stuff or cleavage-announcing top the colleague-from-the office’s attire could have been wearing?

I am afraid

Afraid of my shadow

Afraid of my fears

The nightmares they give me
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You have come again
I know there’s going to be pain
Have you come to please
Or to tease?
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An intercourse of death calls
and a missing sister,
a missing daughter,
springs off her feet in response.
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If dreams where made of plastic, we’ll just buy toys. That is just another way to say “Na Yam”. But the reality of things is that a significant percentage of police men we have today [...]

“Mummy, why can’t you hear me?”

Little Alex lay on the hospital bed, a sorry sight, with his skin clinging to his bones and a deathly pale look on his face. The discolouration of his skin gave him a ghost-like appearance and he was barely conscious of his environment as he lay there struggling for dear life.
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Recently, I’ve been trying to get my head round the idea that shopping could actually be a hobby. Exactly how is shopping a hobby biko nu? I can’t help but notice a lot of profiles [...]

And God said, “It is not good for man to be alone”

This is the most quoted scripture in the Bible. It is quoted in reference to only, perhaps marriage.
But could there have been a deeper and more far reaching idea in the mind of God when he said that, that for the first time something was not good? Could he have meant that it is simply not good for Adam to dwell in that garden alone without someone of his kind, who would serve as a sounding board for his dreams, and it need’nt always be a wife? This is why I say, I think you need me to feel good.
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We approached the senate floor, a crowd of sweaty students dressed in our night clothes, armed with tree branches and leaves, singing our aluta songs,”…solidarity forever/ solidarity forever/ we shall always fight for our rights!” [...]

CHAPTER 6 When the Nkpani warriors returned, they weren’t jubilant. Although, they brought back twenty heads, they were sad. They had lost eighteen men. They had planned to take the Nko people unaware and kill [...]

(A setting like a secondary school’s social hall, on the podium holding a microphone is a student, the social prefect. Audience applauding)

Beckoning, wooing; flagging her fancy
for who may fall victim; inviting
to all with promises of safety and pity.
The understanding mother
and the soothing mistress;
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Somehow we’ve met here today
Tomorrow may not be foretold
But in our today don’t delay
As I tray all I’ve learned
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Two weeks later, he was standing outside Dunni’s office building, waiting for her to be done with her day. He knew now that she was Dunni Davies, had been for seven years, she had no [...]

I am pregnant. For a married man. There, I’ve said it, out loud for all to hear. For every individual I have ever met to have their fill; raining curses and abuses on me. For [...]

One Bedroom Apartment opposite VGC. N150,000.00 only. The advert caught my attention. I had just changed jobs and was now working in Victoria Island. I still lived in Sango Ota, Ogun state, Nigeria. In the [...]

Listen to a review of The thing around your neck, and The Road Home, two books about the immigrant experience. KUOW Seattle interviews Myne Whitman on her thoughts about leaving home and settling in a new place.

Izukanne sat still on the muddy ground amidst the gathering crowd . Her father’s lifeless body sprawled out before her. Someone in the crowd sighed loudly, others cried, but none caught her attention. “Izu… Izukanne, [...]

The way exotic fragrances pervade a rose garden’s air The way a brilliant yellow adorns the sun flower fair The way birds chirping high pitched melodies crown the break of new day and how the [...]

I wonder if she dreams when she sleeps – that girl across the street.
And if she dreams I wonder what she sees
Recollections of the day perhaps?
No, I hope not; for that would no longer be a dream but a nightmare.
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I hear the president rules from a walled place

Under security, sedatives and a dazy haze

Yet when he writes, none compares

His ethos and ways, simple and fair.
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The drums rolled as the young dancers jumped up and down twisting their young bodies to the rhythm. The birds joined in the chorus as if aware of what was going to take place in [...]

After reading part of Gloria Davies’s “You are what you eat”,i decided to write this article. Many of you reading this are as guilty as I am of the charges you would find as you [...]

Today, the sun fall out like say person dey pursue am,
I come say make I wear garment, full gadging….
Na summer, babies go full street, men go dey achohol, full swording….

As I come dey stroll down Byres road, my guy just fall out from one side

I have seen

The four walls

Coated with gory hand-prints

Of criminals and suspects

In-scripting awkwardness

Pleading for a public presentation

I stared at slogans

Screaming….

“we die…innocent”

Continued from -Admiral John Bull (2/3) During the weeks that followed, Uncle began opening up to me about the operations of LAND. For the first time he also criticized diaspora activists. “You can’t sit down [...]

He could hear her voice as he slowly ascended the stairs, asking the kids to be seated for breakfast. He knew she’d be home even though he hadn’t been able to reach her via phone. [...]

As life goes on in true retrospect
I see the stars and moon crying
Crying for the advice elders neglect
The advice for roads to trying

The music the thighs play
are the aromas of desire…
Tingling-Tingling, the guitar breathes
in the sound of love and the music
of moans… the strings pulled are
manures for her. Her stare teases
as she plays the guitar.