Hurray!!! It is March! It is Women’s History Month 2025! Is it not remarkable the way we took a leap from Black History Month into Women’s History Month this year? A whole…
There’s a kind of nostalgia that isn’t about a particular event but about a particular time in life. Everyday, when I look at you my daughter, I am hit with a huge…
Isabel hated the smell of hospitals, the last time she had been in a hospital was five years ago when she had her little girl. This hospital, however, was homier than others.…
The angry rush of water down the old roof reflected Amina’s own dark mood. Shaking her head, she bemoaned the erratic weather of Benin City, where God has seen fit to give…
The room was dark. Man and insect moved stealthily, each unaware that the other was privy to their presence. The cockroach flitted around the pots of food, lifted itself up by its…
Dear Diary, I am in love with life. I think there is a melody in the swish of the wind and the thump of our feet against the floor. I think the…
I stare at the young man over the counter and he stares back at me. He is a good looking young man with dark smoky eyes and soft looking black beard. His…
This tale is not for people who want to read stories just the way they happened. The gradual projection of events and not the scattered remembrance of events that is normal for…
I thought I had a perfect life. A perfect family, perfect friends and the love of my life. My parents doted on me, leaving all their wealth at my disposal and yet…
She was just like all the other teenage girls, always on her phone. Day and night searching and viewing those things that concern them and those things that do not. Sacrificing quality…