HOME IS IN MY PEOPLE BY D. ABIODUN
I took a break from the HOME SERIES. We are back now! Enjoy this article by Dami Abiodun. A friend and mentor in ways I can’t explain. Dami is home to me in a way other people aren’t. But this…
Home – A City That Moves At The Speed Of Thought by Chinyere Unique...
Through her everyday Lagos living and danfo bus struggles, Chinyere finds her definition of home. Enjoy! * On my way home from Ladipo, I happened to sit in the bus beside this large woman who was determined to crush me…
Defining Home : Memory, Migration and Movement
Defining home is difficult – for me. Out of the 36 states in Nigeria, I have intimate relationships with four. My relationship is with Port Harcourt, the town where I grew up, the town where my parents live; with Umuahia,…
Why I’m no longer talking to Nigerians about Race – Panashe...
Panashe Chigumadzi author of Sweet Medicine and These Bones Shall Rise Again has written an important essay on writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics. In this essay, she discusses the privileges that we Nigerians have. You may ask “what is…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Carnage of the Cameroons
Cameroonians in Rome denouncing the discrimination suffered by Cameroon’s Anglophone minority.CreditCreditPatrizia Cortellessa/Pacific Press, via LightRocket, via Getty Images Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turned 41 on the 15th day of September and she had an article published in THE NEWYORK TIMES on…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on being sexually harassed at 17
At the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality, held 15-17 April, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talked about “a powerful man in the media” who sexually harassed her in 1994. Below is the full transcript : When I was 17 years old, I…
LETTER TO A FRIEND II (A REPLY) – OKECHUKWU ERINNE
Literary enthusiast, Victor Adedayo wrote a letter (published HERE – CLICK TO READ) to his friend Okechukwu, thanking him for recommending Daughters Who Walked This Path by Yejide Kilanko. Okechukwu has written back. Enjoy! Dear Victor, It would only be right…
My Book Affair – Chinyere Unique Nkemjika
When I was younger, my grandmother would make me sit on her lap and read stories from my Macmillan English Reader to her. I read Ali and Simbi, Edet lives in Calabar and Mr. Sade the Farmer. I also read…
Letter To A Friend – Victor Adedayo
Dear Okechukwu, The first time we met, you were holding a copy of Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk This Path. You gushed about the book and told me how interesting it was. I just finished reading it and I want…
My Book Affair – Romeo Oriogun
How I Discovered Books; If I am to be honest with myself, all my life I’ve suffered from one form of depression or anxiety about being depressed or an extreme form of mania, I can’t say when it started but…