Essays
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DEAR WOMAN; Inhale, Exhale, Be.
The first time I ever processed thoroughly the idea of domestic violence against women was four years ago, and I wrote a short story for Ynaija here that ended with a woman dying from abuse and everyone gossiping about it. I had always heard stories of men who beat their wives. I had seen women…
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RUM BUM BUM BUM
Logistic problem is the thing that people say after plans they made don’t work out. Logistic problem is the thing that happened to us (my husband and I) a few days before our scheduled travel for our wedding anniversary, such that on the 6th of April (anniversary date) rather than be in our planned destination,…
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MALE SUPREMACY NONSENSE; Accra Airport Diaries
Last week, I came across a certain misguided man, and after my encounter with him, I pitied his wife mostly, who I imagined must have such ill luck, and burdensome task of living with such human. It is for this reason alone that I refrained from calling him foolish after he exhibited the mysoginist side…
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I SPEAK VERNACULAR
There is a bubble we speakers of the English language live in I am about to burst with my pen, or keypad in this case. I remember an incident that occurred when I was much younger. We were watching The Miss World pageant in our living room, the one that Agbani Darego won, and a…
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THE ONE IN MY BELLY; ON OXFORD STREET
When a friend asked me one day, if I could sense what my child will be like, if I was prepared to raise an unknown, I sighed. We were both pregnant, I was almost due, tired and sitting on a ledge at a bus stop on Oxford street, watching the mammoth crowd of tourists and…
Tope Owolabi 