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...
As fresh commuters crowded into the train, I looked up from the back where we sat and saw her. Already seated. She took up the entire...
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...
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...
“Bhet, why you dey para give her like that na?” Lantana smirked, a wry smile tugging at her lips. Lantana is my alter ego. Her only...
Eleda mi o, how can my spirit sit here while my soul wanders through the streets of Lagos? A few hours earlier, it was traipsing, like...
What does it mean for a land to drink blood and still expect its people to love it? Before Yelewata learned the taste of blood, our...
My dad was transferred from Lagos State to his company’s new branch in the North. It was around that time that my parents got a divorce....
No matter how loud a city claims to be, the sound of gunshots can never be drowned out. After the fall of Abuja, a wave of...
Lagos was moving mad. That’s how Ada could describe it. Not because Lagos did anything new, but because the tension became overwhelming. The hustle, traffic and...
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I write a blog about relationships and sensual topics, and my dedicated followers eagerly anticipate my words. What they don’t know, however, is the irony of...
Ayanfe’s eyes, whenever she laughed, misted over. The tears would fill her eyelids as quickly and as suddenly as laughter rose from her belly, vibrated through...
The silence that surrounded us every day started because ten times we tried to have children; ten times we failed.
He brought out his bag and slammed the door of his car. He made to enter the house and as he was about to thumbprint the...
...if I had not brought him home from the hospital in a coffin instead of a cot.
...how do you do such a thing to someone who makes you feel?
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