In the box and out of it
Yesterday was International Women’s Day and I’ve been thinking. There’s been a lot of talk about how women are marginalized and overlooked. And how they must be included and heard. That is all right and good. As for me, I don’t particularly worry myself with these things. I’ve come to the “comfortable” conclusion that it […]
Read More For the Love of WomenDear Writer’s Block, It’s not you, it’s me.
Read More Breaking UpWhat is in a name? North, south, east, west, wherever you go, names are important, sometimes sacred. In primary school, you could get into trouble for writing someone’s name with a red “biro”
Read More Names… and BeadsWhen I look at Christianity today, I know we are hurtling towards the Day.
Read More GraceLess CHURCHThere we go
Placidly among the haste
Now there, now gone
Here we go again. It’s been a long few months of intense dryness. Whether it’s due to the effects of El Nino or Climate Change, every Ghanaian and I might add, every Lagosian (I hear that the bustling city of Lagos has been “boiling”) has felt something of the weather. A long dry season has […]
Read More The Rain Series I: After the RainIt reminded me of when I was speaking French a little too fluently for me to believe. I always stopped just to hear my amazing self. But where is that French now?
Read More Say What?It’s the middle of February and most of us must have shaken off Christmassy feelings long ago. Things are back to business as usual. Perhaps you might even be relieved that the season of good cheer is over because depending on where you are in the season of life, Christmas comes with a lot of […]
Read More Taking Down ChristmasI could rewrite Disney’s Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid and pass them off as authentic African stories. The only difference, you see, is that love and hate are dressed up in princess gowns, worn by wide-eyed couldn’t-hurt-a-fly pretty faces.
Read More Story StoryThe last few days have been exciting. I’ve been learning something new but not in your conventional classroom. One step out of many on my way to being a better me, it made me realize just how much I miss venturing out into unknown territory. Someone said that for my generation, it is hard to […]
Read More The Stuck Generation that Could
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