The shadows never leave

Another midnight phone call from Emmanuel left me shaken to the bones. My wife had been awoken by the loudness of the ringtone with suspicions about who it was that was calling so late in the night. She didn’t know Emmanuel, and there was no point opening old wounds. So I claimed it was a […]

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Hairdresser by Ife Olujuyigbe

Image from Pinterest. Dear Hairdresser, Well done. This is what you say to me every ten minutes as I sit and you stand behind me, twisting and weaving and tying and working hair magic. You also say, Straight your head, and while I am not sure what that means, I sit up, and you work […]

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The matching faces of Ake.

Warning: This is a rant. Let me talk about Ake ’16 before we enter the New Year and people start looking at me wankain if I mention it in January. Me I dihnuh exactly enjoy it sha. I don’t know really. Maybe I’m just weird. Or maybe it’s because I came very late and was […]

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#MTNProjectFame: A memory walk

Fellow humans of the world who own DSTVs and SoundCitys and AITs and HipTVs… MTN Project Fame Season Nine is upon us, and trust your gyal to give you all the juice. I bet someone somewhere is saying, Ehn, project fame shift wan side, the Voice is the littest Yeah, warefa. I love the voice, […]

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Genesis 3:9-19 (behind the scene)

By Osundolire Ifelanwa 9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten […]

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My Ideal Wedding|Mogbekeloluwa Ladele

Sitting on a stack of plastic chairs, smoldering, royally vexed about a wedding ceremony that has gone on for too long – I have decided to write about my ideal wedding. The ideal wedding I sometimes dream about; the ideal wedding I know I will never have. ***** My ideal wedding has a hundred guests, […]

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Akure Chronicles

I became a stranger; unknown yet familiar. It had been so long, and even though I still knew my way around places and people, it didn’t feel like I knew this place at all. People had changed. I had changed. The air had changed. No more was I stuck with hearing only the sound of […]

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