He slapped her buttocks playfully as they walked past the lake near the parking lot. She tried to be nice. It was painful, he looked like...
This is a continuation of last week’s post. Click here if you missed it. ** Etiosa stayed at home a few days. When Ngozi asked what...
Ngozi sat in the dingy interrogation room of Oniru Police Station. It felt like she had been sitting there for twelve hours. There was no way...
A lover of art – a kind that wouldn’t mind paying much more than the usual admirer of beauty – who decides on a journey to...
You are aware of the curious furtive glances thrown at you; the curious suppressed whisper, hidden in a way that only made it more obvious. You...
Under the spotlight, all Tomide Ojo could see from the stage was a faint outline of his wife’s face. He’d thought Titilope would vanish through the...
“Okay young lady, time to head home.” Simon said and Rèmí made a sad face. “Can’t we stay just a bit longer?” she asked. “No Love,...
Falana had been a troublesome child from the beginning, even though the beginning was not peculiar; he started out as restless as any child his age...
“Sade! I’m never letting you go ever again…Please forgive me”. My ex boyfriend, the source of the turbulence in my life was before me. Farooq fell...
She liked him. She liked the air about him, calm and collected, free of artifice, bereft of a desire to dominate. She liked that he liked...
The wind that blew in my face, as bus sped on, smelled of promise. And it had only just begun. I couldn’t believe we had actually...
It is the evening of Valentine’s 2010. I am on an okada bolting towards UNILAG gate, my unbuttoned black jacket flapping behind me at 45 miles...
It was the first day of the week, a day Miyabi dreaded so much. She hated Mondays. They were a constant reminder that she was a...
Port Harcourt, Nigeria My heels sound a staccato rhythm as I walk into the marbled hallway of Briggs and Horsfall, a leading law firm with branches...
My grandfather was our village’s chief of mysteries for many years before he joined his ancestors, leaving me with a chest of wisdom locked up in...
In The Last Wedding Anniversary, Abimbola Dare takes us into the mind of Celine Benson, a woman fervently hoping for a child, trying to find herself...
I lay flat on my bed. My arms stretched out, almost touching the edges. I noticed for the first time how white the ceiling boards in...
My name is Isaac. One sunny afternoon I got haters behind me like green flies on kak. You mean you don’t know what kak means? Dude,...
By the second week, I’d perfected the routine. Get ready in the morning, wipe the pool of water from last night’s rain off my bicycle saddle...
It is possible to hear the voice anytime and anywhere. A lot of people have spoken about the overpowering power of the voice; but the stories...
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