Failed bar exams. Went into business with a best friend. Great idea to make loads of money. Swindled. Fake police, no justice. Girlfriend left in disgust. […]
Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter, tells the story of Ramatoulaye, a middle-aged woman whose recently deceased husband had married her daughter’s best friend. Written as a […]
We were sitting in Grandma’s living room in Ijẹ̀bu Igbó. Grandma and I were shelling ẹ̀gusi kennels while Dad and Taiye, my twin brother, were looking […]
Deep in thought, Renike clomped determinedly to the bus stop from the Faji’s subdivision. The rain had just taken a breather and would probably start again. […]
Love in Yoruba culture is playful on one hand and serious on the other. Love consists of afẹ́rí and ojúṣe. Afẹ́rí, the closest form to romance, […]