Prologue: Its 11pm in Atlanta. In an hour’s time, my phone would be flooded with Happy New Year texts and well wishes…or not, because I never respond to these stuff anyways and I expect my well-wishers to have gotten the hint by now…or not. My aunt decided we were going to attend a Redeem church…
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We’re just friends
She says I should resist the devil and not call him tonight. I look at her misguidedly, like a little child who has been denied an extra ball of akara. I don’t need to hear it from her, I already told myself that I wasn’t going to call him anyways, that it was the smart,…
The time I thought I had cancer
Those who have had a brush with death know it’s an inherently scary idea, the fact that what lays beyond is, till this day, unknown. Maybe you’re among the few who allude no fear towards death, who remain ready to gallantly embrace its coming. Or like me, you’re a youth, whose vibrancy provides a useful…
The Problem With Yemi Alade’s Message on Gender Equality
I was browsing through my discovery page on Instagram yesterday, when I saw a picture of Yemi Alade (Nigerian pop singer and BET nominee for Best International Act-Africa) holding a plaque that read “gender equality”. Being the amebo that I am, and a genuine admirer of her hard work and independence as reflected in the…
The thing with my teeth
It was the beginning of a new semester, fall 2014. I had plans and resolutions, the top of the list being to look extremely nice all day every day. (I can’t say I completely lived up to that, that semester) The eagerness to wake up two hours early and dress up fashionably every morning before…
New age, New resolutions
I celebrated my birthday a few weeks ago, on the 4th of August. Well, there wasn’t really any celebration involved; it was more of a stay-at-home-do-house-chores-and-sleep-later-on kind of day. Still, the day marked my final passage from teen age into adulthood and with it came the sudden dawn of realization, that I was no longer…
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