Circa September 2020 It has been more than a year since I changed my route to work and I must say, I have been living in my own bubble, oblivious but still very conscious of how crazy Lagos traffic was, is and is to come. It almost looked like I was finally losing the feel […]
Yay! It’s another 5th of July and despite how weird this year has been, it has given me some time to reflect and reminisce. A particular reminisce-worthy time was this day last year when I got my first surprise dinner ever. So, I have always anticipated Birthdays… …not because I get to express the extent of
Hear me out. I know reading ‘Move’ in a time such as this, would almost have you rolling your eyes to the back of your skull before discarding my line of thoughts into some bin labelled “okoto meow meow skrr” (some slang that means trash). Like I mentioned, hear me out. Currently, you may feel
A #StayHomeWithMe Poetry Challenge by Oyin Akeredolu
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You ever been in a verbal war or fight and afterward felt this genuine peace and excitement that you did and said the right things? Well, I had never. I always said the wrong things and regretted afterward, until this one time during one of my few sojourns to Bariga market. In case you are
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Like Pawns Dear Nigerian Youth, I hear you have been frustrated and getting depressed a lot lately. Some of you have resorted to suicide to end the feeling of being unfulfilled and like pawns, you have been caught in a web of selfish game players in form of law makers and policy
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Disclaimer: I’m not a beauty blogger, nor am I a makeup artist (MUA). This is coming from the stables of the only girl (feels like that) left in her 20s who is not a MUA or knows so much about the right contour and highlighting tools, except the ones she has tried on her face
I stumbled on a trending series of skits on Instagram yesterday- “so mo age mi” which is very much hilarious in its own way and entirely relatable especially to a Nigerian, more specifically to people from the Yoruba tribe. For non-Yoruba folks, ‘so mo age mi’ translates to ‘do you know my age/ how
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Sometimes I wonder why I love the beach so much. A not-so-rowdy beach to be specific. Feet covered in beach sand, hair like Lagos traffic because all over the place while watching the mini turmoil from the waves and the stillness thereafter. Watching the way the wind transfers its energy through the waters and then
