It’s easier to identify with someone who has walked in our shoes. It’s easier to listen to someone who has gone through what we are going through than someone who is spouting words of knowledge from a theoretical point of view.
The Englishman feeds his dog with bones. The Nigerian feeds his dog with chocolate. The difference is chocoholic. There are no bones in chocolate. In his classic How to be a Nigerian, Peter Enahoro, aka Peter Pan, recounts the…
When I read online about the London returnee lady who was murdered by her staff, I told myself, oya call this lady that is writing about tales on a website that one of my Nigerian friends forwarded to me. I…
Pretty boy Funbi Emiola is not exactly a new kid on the block. He has been lending his sweet voice to our soundscape for a while now. His breakthrough on MI’s mixtape is quite historical, given his steady and assured…
A lot of people say to me: “Tara, you are a strong woman” and I have always wondered what they mean. By strong, I guess they mean my ability to go through things and still keep my sanity, to laugh…
I still have goosebumps every time I remember the incident that happened early this year. I have often heard of people seeing the dead in their dreams and talking to them, that sort of thing. I can accept things like…
I have a confession to make – I have a godfather, but he never asked me to swear to an oath of allegiance at Okija Shrine – or wherever. It started way back in 1985 when I ran into a…
I no longer have any wish to live because there is nothing to live for. I have told my family members not to bring me to the hospital, no matter the medication, it won’t work. ‘Just bury me quickly, no…
I am a mother who wanted the best for her child. I am a woman, who suffered to have a child. I am a good mother and what I did was simply to correct my own child. The same way…
About seven years ago, Olamide set up his record label and released his sophomore album. The record label YBNL came from the sophomore album’s title – Yahoo Boy No Laptop. This epithet did not only ring true at the time,…
