July 3, 2019
I campaigned for three terms before Mum yielded. I was finally going to school on the train.
May 31, 2019
“No do gra-gra for me. Omo let me romance you.” La Ray’s song looped endlessly in my head. I choreographed. I was crammed in the back […]
May 1, 2019
Gbum! Yeepah! Bolting upright, I looked across the room at Benji. In the dim light of dawn, Benji’s form lay still in his twin bed across […]
February 28, 2019
“Happy Wednesday!” I was hailed as I passed Charlotte in one of the numerous hallways at work. Really? We’d started on the same day and trained […]
February 22, 2019
Discipline is my word for the year. Rosetta Thurman, millionaire and CEO at Happy Black Woman charged us to have a theme word for 2019. I […]
July 3, 2018
I am an American Nigerian. Do not confuse this with a Nigerian American who is first a Nigerian then an American. After 25 years in the […]
June 23, 2018
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. […]
June 2, 2018
“Jump the crate! Jump the crate,” I said. But the foolish boy let the soldier fall and die. “PHUNnnn.” Then his mother frowned at me and […]