Everyone at the table took a liking to Simdi. She seemed such an interesting person. Of particular interest to Felicity was her keen sense of fashion....
I wore my black dress today, the one with intricate gold embroidery down the front and on the cuffs. The one scented with sweet memories. The...
Senami watched as Fadaka changed into an old adire gown, cleaned off her make-up, and removed her jewellery. All Aunty Kike’s instructions. Apparently, the plainer your...
In the dim light of the downtown Atlanta Renaissance Hotel room, fifty-year-old Nambi from Sierra Leone believed the younger white man with the stringy blonde hair...
While Mayowa sat in the tub with her knees drawn to her chest, she thought about the events of the last hour. Grandpa Edward had done...
He had always believed Ebuka Amanze was indestructible. During the long years of military rule, the generals had tried to permanently silence him but they had...
You noticed the girl the day she stood up during the book club’s meeting to make an argument. She had risen quickly, and you had watched...
I started 2014 on a high, as I told you earlier. Then I took big risks, faced failure, kept going in the direction of what I...
Once upon a time, before memory and before names, a young maiden wandered through the quiet places of her own heart. She did not yet know...
Ubuntu is a term derived from the meaning of humanity’s humility among the Nguni and Bantu tribes and their languages. The term Ubuntu is used in...
I was six the first time I learned how to swallow a scream. It wasn’t a lesson anyone sat me down to teach, and there were...
“I need some water to cool down,” Samuel said. He carried in the last welcome box his family had received upon arriving in a new town...
Almost eight billion faces around the world, and there will never be another me.
For the past few weeks, I have been serialising my book, ‘The Cost of Our Lives – Pandemic Edition‘, and sharing a chapter with you every...
For the past few weeks, I have been serialising my book, ‘The Cost of Our Lives – Pandemic Edition‘, and sharing a chapter with you...
For the past few weeks, I have been serialising my book, ‘The Cost of Our Lives – Pandemic Edition‘, and sharing a chapter with you every...
For the past few weeks, I have been serialising my book, ‘The Cost of Our Lives – Pandemic Edition‘, and sharing a chapter with you every...
As a person of faith, I know the power of hope and the many times it has brought me back up when I hit rock-bottom. I...
For the past few weeks, I have been serialising my book, ‘The Cost of Our Lives – Pandemic Edition‘, and sharing a chapter with you every...
It is important as we navigate our life’s journey, and as we fulfil our God-given destinies to keep account of our days. There are many ways to keep...
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