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            THE SHEPHERD(Do you know the shepherd?) It was on Friday, and you know the usual vibe and mantra that follows after close of work;...
Austin Johnson Odafe

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Apr 6  -  2 min read

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The plan with Kayode was that the babies wouldn’t come till the third year of marriage. Part of the plan was also to have loads...
Modupe Ojo

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Mar 25  -  3 min read

I’m staring at my reflection in the mirror and can only imagine the amount of girls, women who are like me; struggling and trying to...
Ernestine Okafor

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Mar 25  -  9 min read

I met Ifeanyi in 2016 at the Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan. It was one of those days when I went to the library...
Modupe Ojo

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Mar 13  -  3 min read

A SHORT FICTION Richard sat on the white, high-backed, plastic chair on the veranda, stretching his injured foot forward and making it parallel with the...
Omoyele Temiloluwa

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Mar 9  -  3 min read

1 “Selére, hurry up with that basket you’re weaving. I want you to go and buy me a new calabash.” Her mother called out. “Yes,...
Sophia Adepoju

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Mar 6  -  30 min read

It’s not that I didn’t hear the stories, I did but myths are not real. They’re takes made up by people to scare other people....
Sophia Adepoju

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Feb 25  -  19 min read

The putrid smell emanating from a nearby house nauseated her. She covered her nose in disgust as she navigated her way through the narrow path...
Omolara Kazeem

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Feb 25  -  2 min read

It was on February 26th and as usual, all four of us headed straight to my house immediately after school hours. My house was just...
Deola Olatunji

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Jan 12  -  3 min read

They say that it starts to hurt less when you find a way to laugh about it; that when it becomes a joke to you,...
Ubong Johnson

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Jan 9  -  2 min read

1. The sweltering heat of a tropical African night came alive with the buzzing tunes of Mosquitoes, that hummed and fed on sweaty bodies, while...
Daniel Ibanga

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Jan 3  -  2 min read

                  Oníkálukú jèjé ewúré Ewúré, ewúré Oníkálukú jèjé àgùtàn, Agùtàn bòlòjò Olúrónbí jèjé omo re Omo re...
Amudipe Opeyemi

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Dec 19  -  9 min read

    “Mushin Olosha! Mushin, mushin wole!!” hollered the conductor who draped on the yellow bus horizontally stripped with black. I had boarded the bus...
Henry Okeke

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Dec 4  -  2 min read

The young miss squared her shoulders as she walked singularly on the red carpet amidst deafening applause and standing ovation. Flashes of light from cameras...
Priscilla Oyinola

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Dec 3  -  1 min read

As a Nigerian youth you walk the streets of Nigeria with the fear that one day you will encounter them. The men in uniform: black...
Michael Ordia

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Dec 2  -  3 min read

The first time I saw mother’s eyes swollen like an overripe avocado, her skin accommodated colours from pain, her body revealed scars from severe whipping....
Michael Ordia

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Dec 2  -  1 min read

It’s time for the bride to walk into the church. I’m beaming with joy. I walk the aisle with my father as the hymns remind...
Michael Ordia

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Dec 1  -  7 min read

Heyooooo!!!!!😋😋😋😋Wassup my beautiful people😙😍Happy New Month!!💃💃💃💃💃 How Christmas preparations going!!!!I can smell chicken already 😁   Its gonna be a detty December 😂😂😚As much as...
Makanjuola Oluwajubeelo

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Dec 1  -  5 min read

  Against the run of play, our hostel was been enshrouded by a mysterious wind of quietness these past few days thanks to my roommates....
Amudipe Opeyemi

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Nov 26  -  1 min read

The sky held an empty glow over the earth. The night was silent except for the fluttering of a black-brown bird soaring the sky. The...
Sophia Adepoju

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Nov 25  -  8 min read

NIGHT.He watched as the day went into setting mode, the clouds is gradually withering its brightness. The sun is moving farther towards the west. The...
OLa Jeremiah

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Nov 18  -  1 min read

Magun Two weeks ago, I discovered that the countless dates, the occasional cinema outings and midnight rendezvous had all been for nothing. My girlfriend of...
Hope Ibiale

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Nov 11  -  2 min read

MY FUNERAL The bells were too loud and the choristers were going on and on, I have never been to church and honestly if I...
Hope Ibiale

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Nov 9  -  1 min read

  She ran through the bush, fighting with the thorns and sticks that blocked her way. Her whole body was on alert, her eyes had...
Precious Ndumanya

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Nov 4  -  5 min read

The clinically ruthless elimination of the familial victims, left all in awe of the frail felon, who now stood unflinchingly erect, unbowed or uncowed by...
Daniel Ibanga

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Nov 3  -  4 min read

  The bespectacled Caucasian male approached the cubicle that housed a wooden workstation.In a shared office at Otigba Street, within the famous Computer village ICT...
Daniel Ibanga

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Oct 25  -  2 min read

He awoke.Head aching and swirling from the exotic mix of last night’s free flowing booze, recreative drugs and very loud music.Groggy and shivering from the...
Daniel Ibanga

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Oct 20  -  3 min read

Mistakes. They boarded a korope at Ola-iya junction, in Osogbo. They were sitted at back seat, the guy spread out his hands so the lady...
OLa Jeremiah

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Oct 16  -  2 min read

I finished my algorithm assignment, slammed the textbook shut and pushed my reading table aside when a familar Voice breezed my ear. “Pray now”, faint...
Taiwo Oyinkansola

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Sep 23  -  2 min read

                                                               They say to travel is to take a journey into oneself; perhaps to attain self-forgiveness, or tranquility of mind. Where else is better...
Lywellyn Saha

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Sep 23  -  23 min read

Broken HomeI had met Dayo at a conference meeting my company held some years back at Delta State. He walked up to me so gentle...
Tim Wendy

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Sep 22  -  2 min read

           He sits on the patio,feet on the table,with a cigar between his darkened lips. He’s nothing like an ordinary man....
Ann Odu

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Sep 14  -  2 min read

Back at home as the door slowly opens, a slouched figure appears… a dejected soul not because of the rigors of being a single mother...
Promise Akinremi

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Sep 11  -  1 min read

My babies😊😁How did your week go??It’s Friday I knowwww😄😣The beggining of weekend😍 Music to my ears people.Enjoy the weekend wella ooo. ♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧ My somto monto...
Makanjuola Oluwajubeelo

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Sep 4  -  4 min read

Yooo😄 Im currently eating Ewa Agoyin and Bread(it’s beans😂with some kind of yorubanised pepper).People this beans is maddd oooo…my mummy 😣😋😍. Just incase,you need a...
Makanjuola Oluwajubeelo

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Aug 28  -  4 min read

Bliss.This life is beautiful. This life is Good. This feeling is ecstatic. Right now, I have zero worry. No complains except Mama’s own about my...
OLa Jeremiah

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Aug 27  -  1 min read

Wake. Hustle. Eat. Hustle. Sleep. Repeat. Eating could mean 0-0-1, 0-1-0, 1-0-0 or, on a very good day, 0-1-1. Welcome to Lagos, the center of...
Adachi Amechi

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Aug 26  -  1 min read

People hung around the environment in irregular clusters. Conversing in tones that rose and fell with excited arguments. Discussions centering around Covid19 pandemic and it’s...
Daniel Ibanga

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Aug 24  -  2 min read

I saw you today, Remi. There’s a stall that stands between the fisherman’s spot and the Oak tree that is the center of the village...
A. Olufunmi Favour

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Aug 18  -  4 min read

Swinging a black disposable nylon bag. She stepped out of the air conditioned ambience of a busy banking hall. At the popular computer village… Ikeja....
Daniel Ibanga

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Aug 16  -  1 min read

Its Friyay💃With the cool breeze,i welcome us into beautiful weekend.This weekend has a lot of beautiful suprises😉So girdle up and explore😁. (Sounding like a Yankee😉)...
Makanjuola Oluwajubeelo

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Aug 14  -  5 min read

“…he’ll take pity on you innocents suffering for his crimes and confess.” The twins were not so young that they couldn’t understand Martha’s sarcasm. They...
Priscilla Oyinola

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Aug 3  -  1 min read

“Happy Sunday” was the greeting that came repeatedly from Martha’s neighbours as she returned from church on Sunday. The Sunday might be happy but she...
Priscilla Oyinola

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Aug 3  -  2 min read

Yo 😉Im currently listening to Beautiful People by Chris brown and I’m feeling the Lazy Friday vibes. My muslim people…Barka De Sallah❤To think i have...
Makanjuola Oluwajubeelo

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Jul 31  -  4 min read

The sewing machines in Bella’s Fashion School buzzed as trainees put their feet to the pedestal, producing a brilliant cacophony within its walls. Biodun was...
Priscilla Oyinola

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Jul 26  -  3 min read

African children have different kind of dreams:Noble, high and lofty, some as thick as a beamVarying descriptions and modified themes,Some probably have an happily-ever-after trim...
Priscilla Oyinola

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Jul 25  -  1 min read

“Babe!! You won’t believe who I saw today” I sang into the phone as Lola, my best friend answered. “Who is it this time? You...
Amaka

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Jul 24  -  1 min read

“Have you ever just sat down to think of how different you would be in 5 years to come? How sophisticated and famous you would...
Amaka

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Jul 24  -  1 min read

The smiles never left, in the day, the night, in anger, sadness,my family always knew how to bounce back smiling ❤️I love that about my...
Olamide Femi olagundoye

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Jul 23  -  3 min read

  My mother is afraid. I can see it in her eyes. The silent prayers she says when she thinks no one is watching? The...
Irawooluwa Dare

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Jul 20  -  2 min read

The filament bulb lit the room, giving the white shirt on John a faint orange look. He bent in front of the broken mirror, combing...
Ala

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Jul 19  -  2 min read

Tadashi has grown old searching for her purse containing a number of valuable items such as ATM card, spare keys and some thousands of naira....
Anonymous

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Jul 17  -  4 min read

PROLOGUE “Mum, does God still exist? “ Tehila asked while sitting on the kitchen island and fiddling with her teddy bear. Her legs bounced unsteadily...
Ukeme-Obong Akaka

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Jul 14  -  11 min read

It was Monday again, Betty’s most hated day of the week, and she definitely wasn’t looking forward to it. She never could understand how the...
Priscilla Oyinola

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Jul 6  -  3 min read

Along the struggles and plight of life,lies a path,narrow and appealing,a path which only the brave dare to thread, feared by many;overcome by few.  Mama...
Steph Najomo

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Jun 24  -  1 min read

Funny how intrigued I had been to leave the house. I pictured life as an unbelievable factor as I walked through the street in search...
Steph Najomo

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Jun 21  -  1 min read

“Hush, my child! You have to go through this too. I can’t help it.” “But mama, it hurts.” “I’m hurting too, baby, I am. I...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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Jun 19  -  2 min read

   They both stagger into the room; he, chanting the lyrics of afowómutí, and she, slurring incoherent words. I curl up in my corner, and...
Foyin Ejilola

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Jun 19  -  1 min read

A loner I was…. threading through a path. People call it risky; I call it the happening. Lost in my thoughts,  staring into an abyss,...
Steph Najomo

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Jun 18  -  1 min read

“NOT one, not two, not three, but five!” Meme shrieked while she flung her five fingers at Sani’s face. He knelt on a mat holding...
Lywellyn Saha

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Jun 17  -  24 min read

  Mama birthed this. This Utopia. I remember she would raise her voice at me in our dim lit brown marbled kitchen and my 8...
Irawooluwa Dare

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Jun 17  -  3 min read

carry yourself to the oceanthe ground has become too harddrown your yesterdays,baptize their sins– Ijeoma Umebinyuo This morning Ugo fucked me on the kitchen counter...
Udo Ojogbo

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Jun 11  -  11 min read

   Nothing has changed in Grandmother’s home; one still risks slipping on the oil-smeared tiled floors and the curtains still drip with slimy water. These...
Foyin Ejilola

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Jun 7  -  3 min read

  THE LAGOS HUSTLE As a new comer, I decided one morning to start relieving people’s frown I kept smiling down the Lagos road A...
Borkuu

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Jun 3  -  1 min read

The rain started abruptly but my legs weren’t willing to run for cover. There was something about that window that had kept me staring. It...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 31  -  2 min read

I eased down on the rock and listened first to the blood spilled on the soil of the south, to the cries of the orphaned,...
Karolos

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May 30  -  1 min read

Torukro delightedly removed her overall dress and walked straight into the beach in her two piece bikini. This is the moment she’s always dreamt of....
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 30  -  2 min read

It was like a waged war. I was the battlefield and the warriors had no allys. They arrived, bearing clubs and spears of different kinds,...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 30  -  2 min read

I know a selfless woman. A woman who puts herself last just so others can feel better. A woman who is hardworking, strong and most...
Rafiat, O. M

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May 29  -  1 min read

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.Sigmund Freud COMPOSITION ON MY MOTHER Dear Mr Adeyemi,...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 29  -  1 min read

I’m across the sea already, on a voyage to the other side of life, where rejections are for the wrong doers and happiness doesn’t have...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 29  -  2 min read

One drunken night some three months ago, I cheated on Maxwell  (my present boo) with my ex at a mutual friend all night birthday party....
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 28  -  2 min read

“Excuse me ma, we have a problem”“What is it?”“Our buyer just changed his mind”“Take me to him” The young woman and her secretary made their...
Olutade Biyi

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May 28  -  2 min read

The theme was danger.I was decked in red, prepared to fish. He could hardly go unnoticed from where I was seated. Draped in his signature...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 28  -  2 min read

Jide clocked ten yesterday. The night before his birthday, he couldn’t sleep well, he kept thinking of what it would be like to be ten,...
John 'Dare Okafor

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May 28  -  2 min read

I reclined on the mattress to induce myself to sleep, so as to curb the rumblings in my stomach. Suddenly the left hemisphere of my...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 27  -  1 min read

Over the years I’ve come to realize that real friendship is built on respect, a common bond, and shared memories. A true friend will accept...
Folaji Odedeji

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May 27  -  1 min read

Ages had gone by since I had last been in here. The curtains still had the gold trimmings she had refused to remove even after...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 26  -  2 min read

My superpower is writing. Yes, you read that well writing is my superpower. When I was little, I cannot remember who the man was but...
Rafiat, O. M

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May 26  -  1 min read

Dear reader, True happiness should come from within and staying happy is a choice. There are alot of negativities in the world already. I learnt...
Rafiat, O. M

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May 26  -  1 min read

I was sprawled out on the couch, listening. Her voice was so soothing, as though a jar of honey was broken over all that was...
Karolos

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May 25  -  1 min read

I I drew the duvet up to my neck and sighed; not because I was tired or to welcome my much needed rest but it...
Folakemi!

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May 25  -  24 min read

The year 2014 was…promiscuous. That second after midnight, it lay in bed with the New Year in exhilarating joy. It would in time woo Half-Year—and...
Karolos

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May 24  -  1 min read

You won’t blame me for thinking Joshua was coming to my birthday party to ask me be his babe. We’ve been working together for three...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 24  -  2 min read

Day 1I want to speak and be heard. But those are desires no one cares about. I want to have things flow from the bottomless...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 24  -  3 min read

I always watched her— each time my mother left for the farm with her dirty straw basket placed gingerly over her head, after giving me...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 23  -  2 min read

‘‘Be kind to everyone regardless of the circumstances. Everyone deserves to be loved and cared for.’’ These were Maryam’s father’s words to her on her...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 23  -  4 min read

The sun was really hot, too hot. Adam kept trudging forward slowly and very unsurely. He wished he hadn’t taken up the job to explore,...
Folaji Odedeji

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May 22  -  1 min read

Browsing through the unending rows of books in my library, I came across one with a minute description of the diversity of individuals’ personalities and...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 21  -  2 min read

Eyé èjì aláṣọ, óya ayọ̀ mechanic, ti ilẹ̀ ọ̀tùn mọ̀bà, ayùn rẹ é yun ọmọ rẹ o Alice Ayodeji is the smartest unlettered person in...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 21  -  3 min read

You may want to read the first part of the story here. I looked up at the sound of her voice. “What’s your name?” It...
Karolos

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May 20  -  2 min read

In life, you don’t always believe the reality of a disease until you or one of your family members contract the disease. I was in...
Ebunoreofe Adedeji

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May 20  -  1 min read

Freedom. It was something I had waited all my life to experience. However, the circumstances surrounding my birth however determined my faith even before I...
Olutade Biyi

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May 20  -  1 min read

“I will give you a hundred dirham.” “I’m sorry, it cannot buy…” “A thousand?!” Mahmud said out of desperation. He didn’t know what else to...
Waliyyah Abdulwasii

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May 20  -  2 min read

It had been rumoured the previous week that the government was going to visit our little part of the slums at Mogodo that day, hence...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 19  -  3 min read

With mixed feelings, I folded my clothes and arranged them in one of my travel boxes. Now that the pandemic had ended, it was time...
Ebunoreofe Adedeji

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May 19  -  2 min read

The secondary thing that pleases Janoma greatly about the discovery of Covid19 vaccines is being able to care for her patients without fear. No doubt,...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 19  -  3 min read

Hi. The whole pandemic has not only messed up with sleep schedules of people but it has also messed up with the mental health of...
Rafiat, O. M

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May 19  -  1 min read

Caleb had always wondered if he would ever settle down to marry, considering his present situation or rather – fate. This really affected his self-esteem...
John 'Dare Okafor

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May 18  -  2 min read

Love is beautiful, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not pride. That was what I recited like a poem when asked about...
Folaji Odedeji

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May 18  -  2 min read

Damian wasn’t one of those Harlequin-perfect boys: dark hair, lazy eyes and a step that had just enough bounce to make a statement without being...
Karolos

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May 17  -  2 min read

As quickly as it had begun, my new found love for soccer and the uneventful life I had come to enjoy came to an abrupt...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 17  -  4 min read

The nurses rushed to get me from the ER and into the labor room. My husbands left hand was already squashed as I squeezed it...
Folaji Odedeji

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May 17  -  1 min read

“I’m sorry honey. I did wrong.” “No baby, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have talked to you like that and left angrily.” Deji replied his...
Waliyyah Abdulwasii

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May 16  -  1 min read

Guilt is for people with conscience. It is an emotion that buries itself inside you when you feel responsible for something wrong happening. Adesewa’s mother,...
Ebunoreofe Adedeji

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May 16  -  2 min read

We had agreed to meet in the town’s only restaurant, a medium sized building located beside the once uncompleted structure that had been our hideout....
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 16  -  3 min read

‘’Emeka, listen to me carefully, the day you drop out of that school; that’s the day you would cease to be my son.’’ The room...
John 'Dare Okafor

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May 16  -  2 min read

I felt a fresh sense of bliss wash over me as I drove out of Brighter Tomorrow Orphanage. This trip is the seventh one I’ve...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 16  -  2 min read

The bus rode peacefully on the road, too slow for our adrenaline filled bodies. We jumped out of the moving bus and ran towards the...
Folaji Odedeji

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May 16  -  2 min read

   Runaway Micheal peered hurriedly in the side mirror of his blue Ford Mustang, his eyes darted swiftly to the rear view mirror and to...
Ibrahim Akinpelu

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May 16  -  2 min read

It dosen’t hurt yet; it doesn’t feel real, the way you left, that you left. Many plans are now to be denied their time in...
Karolos

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May 15  -  1 min read

The only whole part allowed to follow one on the journey of no possible return is the mind. Drops and bits fall away gradually until...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 15  -  2 min read

Michael could never forget how the village girls used to dance with careless abandon as he strummed his village guitar in the village square. The...
Folaji Odedeji

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May 15  -  1 min read

No, not that place. Keep moving down, oh no not that place. The doctor used a particular thing i cannot explain on my head  and...
Rafiat, O. M

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May 15  -  1 min read

“Two roads diverged in a wood…and I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference” Robert Frost Dabota heaves a...
Tabitha Fabiyi

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May 14  -  1 min read

“Ẹ̀lóo, ọkọ mi. Ẹ̀ẹ́n, mo wà l’ọ́jà. Ariwo yíì pọ̀ ni. ṣé ò ń gbọ́ mi…ẹ̀ló…” “Hello…Màámi, I can hear you. Hello…” “Tintin…tintin…tintin… Your call...
Waliyyah Abdulwasii

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May 14  -  2 min read

“Help! My kid is drowning! Save him!” A frantic woman called out to the young couples and the children who sat lazying under cool shades...
Oreoluwa Idowu

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May 14  -  3 min read