Happy New Year Elsians! I have a confession to make. I am addicted to blogging – thinking of new posts, looking for content, sharing links and reading feedback from you. I never knew this type of addiction existed until it hit me. While typing the... Read More
Thank you!
2016 is almost done and I enjoyed every minute spent on this blog. Thank you for visiting the blog, reading, sharing, and dropping a comment, for the emails and for believing in this brand. Special shout out to all the contributors on ELSiEiSY. Thank... Read More
Blog Festival | Yellow, Black & Ola | by Kayode Adeleke
My name is Ola Komolafe. My fears are constantly increasing like the temperature of a pot of water on a stove. Pangs of hunger grips my stomach, and I can feel my intestines whither because of inactivity. I am already used to the darkness, the extreme... Read More
Blog Festival | Adanma | by Esomnofu Ebelenna
When Adanma turned seventeen, Darlington bought her a bouquet of flowers and remarked that she was as beautiful as the flowers. But now, Adanma was twenty, Darlington said he could not compare her with those flowers. She is lovelier than the loveliest... Read More
Story of My Vagina – A Needed Call
I saw a stage play yesterday by Joy Isi Bewaji, directed by Segun Adefila of Crown Troupe titled – STORY OF MY VAGINA at Theatre Republic with friends and my followers who won tickets on my personal Instagram page. All the title did for me was pick... Read More
Blog Festival | Emily | Darren C. Demaree
EMILY AS A SCRATCH, A KISS I would sneak outof my own skinif it meant that I could catchthe angle of Emilywhen, from my periphery,she decides to bethe sun graspingthe porchof my whole body. EMILY AS WE IMAGINE THE SWARM The red... Read More
Blog Festival | Journaling, Labeling Theory | by Michael Lee Johnson
Breaking news this just in,1:15 PM December 15, 2013,I found out labeling theoryhas a personality.It has impact of its own.I love today because Ifound out I have a mental illness.Formally, diagnosed,now I am special.Shrink, Dr. Pennypecker, knows me... Read More
Blog Festival | My First Night | by Isaac-Kola Adegboyega
With great expectation and ecstasy, the day arrived. After rigorous planning, spending every imaginable and conceivable income earned or borrowed, the D-day is here. After the bachelor’s bash, a day before that dragged into the early hours of... Read More
Blog Festival | Everybody Complex | by Nkem Oyaghire
I sat in the exam Hall with 24 students clad in blue and white. Silence all around expect for in my ears, Chris Brown and Jhene Aiko sing their drunken blues. In this drab and utterly cold class; I waited for the time to pass. 12:30 couldn’t come... Read More