No, this isn’t about Video Vixens whose only claim to fame are their gyrating bums that often fill up the screens when we watch music videos. This is more about our young daughters who are not even aware of what…
Why do women love makeup? – Peju Akande
A few weeks back, I received on WhatsApp, before and after images of several women who have been transformed from plain Janes into smouldering cover girls simply via the deft hands of a creative makeup artist. Their blemishes having been…
All eyes on you, Davido! – Peju Akande
I watched All Eyez On Me, the Tupac Shakur story, over the weekend and after it all, I was saddened that a bright light was snuffed out, so cheaply, so easily, too soon. Tupac died at age 25 and yet…
Let me tell you about the day I got robbed in traffic – Peju Akande
I’ve been robbed in traffic. And many years after, I still live in trauma from that nasty experience. It doesn’t help that since then, I have seen other people being robbed in traffic. Now, when I see, do I wind…
What makes women change their names? – Peju Akande
The rate at which people change their names these days is baffling. I was browsing through the newspapers the other day and saw three pages of print dedicated to name changes. Haba! Now, this happens virtually every week in one…
Nigerians love ‘associations’ too much – Peju Akande
Nigerians love ‘associations’, no be lie. Virtually every artisan belongs to one association or the other, in fact, every Nigerian is a member of one association, ethnic, school, profession, even neighbourhood, anything at all. And it’s not a bad thing…
Keeping malice can be good o, but…- Peju Akande
We’ve all kept malice at some point or another. Where two or more are gathered… malice will creep in; so long as you have a relationship with another person, be it sexual or not – as humans, we will get…
The evil Boko Haram did is just beginning to manifest – Peju Akande
I live in an area that is steadily getting quite populated by many young people from the North. It wasn’t always so. Many of our new neighbours serve as gatemen, shoemakers, okada riders et al. I have also come to…
Sister, why exactly did you kill your husband? – Peju Akande
Wasn’t it the English playwright, William Congreve who coined the expression so oft used – “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?” I wonder if he spoke those words from his own personal experiences as he was known to…
Don’t feel guilty for your child – Peju Akande
I’ve read too many stories of parents going into hiding or running away just because they have special needs children. They won’t socialise and they won’t bring their children out either because of what people would say. I knew a…