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It is always winter for Hannah, sometimes she feels it in her body other times she feels it in her soul. During times when she feels its cold pooling at her feet,…
“Don’t go out in the rain.” Those were her grandmother’s last words. Insignificant as they might seem to an outsider, they were very significant to Bisi. They meant: don’t run into the…
“Your father wants you to take off your uniform, he says you’re following me to the market today”. My mother told me as I knelt with my hands on the buckle of…
I’ve always been an inquisitive child, taught and learnt how to differentiate right from wrong at an early age. Growing up as an only daughter, I was loved and attended to by…
The car idles noiselessly on the sand, as a ladybug crawls lazily under the bonnet. The young couple kiss languidly against their warm skin, on the bonnet of the car. They stay…
Marriage is hands down, one of the most important institutions in every African society We would even dare to assume that the ceremony itself- that is, the way one enters this institution…
Who are you? Funny question I tell you. Does anybody really know who they are? As much as I love to ask myself this question, I have never gotten a satisfactory answer.…
I think I grew up on a lean diet of love. I grew up in a family of Seven. I have two elder sisters and one elder brother and a little brother.…
My one night stand story begins like this. Where do I start from? My name is Aminat Fomzi Ojeku. My name used to be Aminat Ufouma Ojeku until I changed it. Now…
I intend to butter this bread thoroughly just as I buttered the last. I intend to treat it as I treated the courses I took to get my college degree, methodological, slowly,…