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07.08.2018
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: Finding Joy In Little Places

I have always lived with animals. When I was little, we had turkeys and rabbits running about our home. One little turkey was allowed in the ...
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08.06.2018
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Happy Birthday To Funmilola! Read a BellaNaijarian’s Sweet Ode to Her Sister

This is one of the days I am propelled to write; days that I think back, nostalgia tickling my heart.My sister turns 30 today and there is no ...
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20.05.2018
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: When You Find Them All

This is 5:39a.m, and I am swimming in thoughts.I have listened to Adekunle Gold's Ire over hundred times, but my earphone are plugged in ...
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22.01.2018
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: There Is No Perfect Child

One major problem I can say has affected Nigerian teens and youth is the plague of low self-esteem that sticks tirelessly to the hems of our ...
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12.11.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: When the Roses Wilted

I am right under the green moon staring blankly at you. I am on the plantain trees where you told me witches meet in the wee hours of darkness to ...
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14.09.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: They Had Forgotten to Do Good

I saw this under the sun.Papa is in his late 90s, stooped and grovelled. Papa has flaming white hair, scattered around the roundness of his ...
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07.09.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: Don’t Let Go of those Dreams… Suuru L’ere

When you were a little kid, you had dreams; dreams, big dreams. You wanted to be a pop star that comes on the stage amidst hollas, yells, ...
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20.07.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: Ah! Music

Ah music! Melody - sweet sweet melody.It is with teary eyes that I write this. I am lying on my bed, cuddling myself. My knees are brought up ...
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22.06.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: And When You Hear Voices

This is 11:11am. This is what I’m thinking.I am thinking of you Ifeyinwa. I am seeing your long slender legs dangling beneath the ...
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23.03.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: These Songs Make Me Sad

These songs make me sad.They are the tears from mama Caro, when she had her seventh child - a female. Again. They are songs of sorrow she ...
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03.03.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: Broken Beats of Lucifer

I go to the back of the house, I enter into the small hut and sit on the floor. The rain is falling hard and the hole in the thatched roof paves ...
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13.01.2017
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: You Are Tomorrow

You are a spirit dancing free, fire running through. You are moulded breath-dust in form of man. You are that streak of orange cloud, adding ...
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07.12.2016
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: These Are the Things I Wanted to Tell You

These are the things I wanted to tell you Kelechi, before you became thick black smoke and journeyed with the wind. First, let me start by ...
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10.11.2016
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Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya: The War Within You

Dear Kokumo, I hope this letter meets you well. So this is your month huh? Remind me again how old you will be in few days, oh! 23. Tell me ...
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26.07.2016
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BN Prose: The Cattle Fulani by Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya

The first time my father's patience was put to test was when fulani herdsmen raided our village. They had hitherto come often with their cattle ...
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