My experience with Grief as a Nigerian

Grief is brutally painful… The process of grieving and mourning is difficult for everyone, add being a Nigerian to this process, and you are in for one hell of tough ride. You see, I’ve seen the way our people expect you to grief and it sucks. Our usual clichés: ‘’It is well’’ (whatever that means)…

It Appears Bum Shorts Didn’t Have the Magic.

Remember when Mercy Aigbe said “I wear bum shorts so that all those toothpick leg girls will not snatch my husband  (Read here).  Well, it appears that the Bum Shorts didn’t do the magic after all. Reports have it that her seven-year old marriage to her husband is over, as she had been enduring domestic…

Catch Them Young, He Says

See this mumu!! Anuofia!! So, a teacher in a mixed secondary school in Nigeria, was advising his followers to "catch girls young" when they are still in secondary schools. Just imagine that, coming from a teacher who is supposed to protect and nurture these young girls in his care. Why am I not surprised? Ask Nigerian…

My Mother, My God

I said to someone quite recently, that since my mom has passed, she can be my God now. He looked at me like I was from another planet. But you see, the mother-child relationship is one that you can’t put into words. I cannot find the words to describe all the beauty of the love…