I have never seen so many military men in my life. There are all sorts of checkpoints, and not the kind you find in Southern Nigeria,...
Sometimes, in our search for peace, we hurt others. Sometimes, when running from home, we say anything. Sometimes we hope things smooth over themselves without the...
‘Meet my colleague, the one who wears white shirt everyday’ ‘Hey. Why are you always wearing the same brown shorts everywhere?’ ‘Osisiye, why do you have...
The People I stayed in an AirBnB apartment and we have to talk about my host, Jean, who came to pick us from the airport in...
What do you call beauty, and how does time affect this? I saw her eyes, innocent and liquid, and she was gone. We are in Kura,...
I am tired of heartbreak. I plan things one way and it goes another way. I don’t even know how to hold this thing again. I...
In the Ooni’s palace in the sleepy town of Ile-Ife, there is a place where cameras are not allowed, entrants must walk in barefoot and prayers...
/Idanre/ – Yoruba word for ‘This is Magic’ You can’t see the end from the beginning and you never know how a day ends. Sometimes the...
Wake up early! Aha! I know I’ve lost half of my readership in one swift three-word-sentence, but this is with good reason too. Don’t believe I...
I want to take you somewhere and I don’t want many people to come with me. This is not an anyhow journey. This is not for...
Let me tell you a story. Osun and Oba are the wives of Sango. Oba is the first wife and yes, I mentioned Osun first. As...
Just the other day, I went to Olumo Rock and apart from the wide vista, aerial view and granite structures, there’s a lot that struck me....
D’you ever think about your name? A name could hold a decade, a name could be a story. Osisiye – It sounds like a perfume, a...
Recently, I participated in a writing workshop organized by the good folks at Goethe Institut. One of the exercises involved writing about our names; what does...
I saw a man’s ass. I kissed under a waterfall. I held a spirit. I made an ostrich angry. I twerked, almost. Trips are trips and...
Recently, I was in the land of the Black Star. A couple of things hit me. First was the trust. At the airport, I asked a...
In memory of Scarlett, a 13 week old St. Bernard. She loved to eat, play and sleep. I live in a house by the beach. It...
Recently, I left my cool job in a tech company where we had a minibar and no dress code and moved to…a bank?! It’s been hard...
I could tell you about how the roads to my house are bad and what the NEPA man said to me, but this post is not...
I will always remember him in one way: a hand slap on my back on a Friday morning and a question, ‘Shey you bring your boot...
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