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Blog Festival | CONFESSION | by Esomnofu Ebelenna
Father, I cannot see your face, but I know you can see me. You see all your penitents’ sinful faces. My transgression is one of the worst in this village. Oh Father, you’ll certainly recoil if you hear this filthy sin I committed when I was... Read More
Blog Festival | At The Visa Application Office | by Agarau Adedayo
We all sat with the urge to runfrom a house in-between two conflicting townsa man sat with the body of his daughterfloating like a voice drowning in space, before me,he had a bowl full of blood in his palms.You know how it is to have seen a waryour... Read More
Blog Festival | Short Days, Long Nights | by Jerry Chi.
2.25am. I wake up to a strong feeling…..not fear, not anxiety, but a deep-seated loneliness I can’t explain. This isn’t just about waking up alone with just pillows and a blanket for company, without any fair bosom to lean into and forget... Read More
Demystifying Abuse – Fresh Rape Victim Launches Campaign
On the 16th of November 2016, my door was forced open by armed robbers who immediately striped us of all our devices and valuables. Myself and a friend. With a gun to our head, we were commanded to strip. We did. Yes, we were raped at gun point. All... Read More
Eminence and Domain
“Ah hah! Pronoun trouble.”―Daffy Duck Her father and uncles; later, her brothers, cousins, husband; later still, her sons and grandsons, spilled blood overseas (others’ and their own), to defend Our Way of Life. Of course She had... Read More
Why don’t you take responsibility?
I am yet to see a people more averse to taking responsibility than Nigerians. It is like the ‘anti-responsibility’ gene gets encoded in our DNA by default. It hardly matters whether we are Hausa, Ibo, Tiv, Itshekiri, Yoruba, Ijaw or what religion... Read More
Death
A soldier dies, but no one bothers.They think that he gets paid for dying;And some ideologues argue thatA man with a gun should eventually die,While paying tribute to a terroristIn their impressive theoriesOn Jihad. Nothing new, only newsFor media... Read More
Your Cucumber
By Esomnofu Ebelenna. Cucumber is your favourite fruit of all time. Your father knows it. Your mother knows it. Your sister knows it. Your brother knows it. Your roommate in the university knows it. Even your professors know it. Why, then, was Emeka,... Read More
The Donald Trump Triumph: The World is Surprised? I Am Not
A few weeks ago, I did had a critical internal analysis after some soft political wit with my friend and I rose from it and wrote on my Facebook wall that “I’ll love to have a Trump victory” for reasons that were obvious and this morning, I could... Read More