Welcome to the year 2021! It is my hope that this new year brings in the best for us all. 2020 has been one troubling and...
2020 has been a year! All of us made our way into it with different goals and aspirations, sure it was going to go just as we planned....
I speak so fast when I’m nervous to the point where it can become difficult for people to understand me. I was very nervous the first...
2020 was a year that kept people apart in many ways — borders were closed, hotels, airports, and businesses were shut down, schools and economic activities...
For our #BellaNaijaWCW feature this week, we celebrate Samira Isah Modibbo, a women and girls education and empowerment advocate and human rights activist who’s the founder...
There is a subtle shift in modern Nollywood romantic comedy from family to work. Well, maybe it’s not a shift but an expansion. For many years,...
“Do you have anyone?” I mused over her question. It wasn’t the first time I had been asked the same thing, it was a recurring question...
Often, I think about a line from a piece by the Nigerian author, Tola Rotimi: “Families are everybody’s first war.” Recently, I had cause to remember that...
For our #BellaNaijaMCM feature this week, we celebrate and shine the spotlight on Dr. Debo Odulana, the founder of Doctoora Health, a patient-centered healthcare platform that...
The word ‘philanthropy’ stirs up thoughts of ‘affluence’, but philanthropy takes on many forms: it is our individual response to human needs, it is about caring...
A secondary school classmate of mine got married recently, and while I was chatting with a friend of mine who also attended Shagamu the day after...
The Christmas holiday is here and yet it still feels like we are in the middle of the year. The holiday shopping season was nothing to...
It’s Christmas… and it’s that time of the year when we’re supposed to just spread good tidings and love! 2020 has been a long year but...
When a son is born, there is a lot of joy – that there is an heir to bear the family name, someone to carry on...
Dear life, It’s hard to exchange pleasantries with you right now so I will head straight into why I am writing this letter to you. You...
In 2018, in a now-deleted tweet, an excited 21-year-old Naomi announced her acceptance into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) competitive internship programme. “Everyone shut the...
For many, 2020 has been a year of ups, downs, and many in-betweens. We know you have a lot to tell us and have asked that, as...
This year, the new Rattlesnake falls into the same type of trap as last year’s Living in Bondage did: the filmmakers think of cinematic storytelling, in...
One White Lie is a 2-part story. If you missed the first, read it here. *** “Find a way to fix it!” My best friend, Chiwendu,...
I sit lonely on the sloping concrete that slips into the river with my legs deep into its water. This river has taken over this wide...
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