Women’s Treat

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raising an unwanted child

Raising an Unwanted Child: An African Woman’s Personal Tale on Raising an Unwanted Child

NOVEMBER 2018 “Jimmy, what’s that?” Brittany asked when she saw her son squatting in a corner with a box in his hands. They were cleaning the attic that Saturday and everyone was…

What Men Want in a Woman

The lights came on when all five girls were sitting on the living room floor playing cards. They were all in their underwear and some were fresh from the bath so they…

Growing Old And Thinking About Death

The sun was low in the sky that day, Martha sat on the lowest step digging the toe of her pink shoe into the earth. She would remember the day in many…

The Mistake? My One Night Stand

  What!? “Name your price”. Did this horse face just ask me to be his whore? “Excuse me?” “How’s 5 million?” He’s still talking. “Did she just walk away from me?” I…

All These Lands Are Deserts

When I was about twelve years old, my mother ran a restaurant in front of our house. In the afternoons when business was slow we would sit behind the counter and talk…

A Miracle in the Snow

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,…

And she lived happily ever after

“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…

I’ll point to the East, show me the West

“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…

My Pride, His Imperfection

LANGUAGES: English, Nigerian pidgin, Igbo, Spanish and hausa What a man can do, a woman can do better!!! Ever heard of this saying? Is this true in all notions or just a…

Forgiveness and It’s Relevance

The world is a place where it seems like many people are either out there to hurt us or don’t care if they hurt us, whether intentionally or accidentally. The feeling of…