Last Friday, news broke that a 14 (going on 15) year old girl in Katsina State had been married to the Emir, and when her parents protested that she was not onl...
One of my favourite people sent me an email on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. The email contained a link, and as I was casting about for a distraction from doing an...
Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life, etc, but first, I have questions. And comments. And you should have tea, becau...
For over a year, my email signature has been a source of much amusement to my friends. They never fail to comment on it – no matter how urgent the content of ...
I was poking through an aunt’s secondary school mementos one day, and I came across a letter written to her by a crush of hers. It was your standard I picked my...
In a land not so far away, there lived a woman, sturdy of form and lively of countenance. She lived in a rut, and she was always restless, anxious to see what l...
Let’s call her Paula.
She was tall and graceful. Many years after, these two features still first come to mind when I remember her. I didn’t find her particu...
"I don’t know. I’m no mortal man"
Mortal Man – Kendrick Lamar
I took out my earphones and I could hear the sound of rain falling outside. I had been waiting f...
I'm here
And yet not
I know what I want.
Will I find all that I seek, all that I have sought?
I'm bruised and battered, I have loved,
I have fought
Dau...
