I wrote part of this last year. I never got around to sharing it. Today felt like the perfect day to do so! Enjoy! * My family had a fortnightly ritual. On Saturdays of each fortnight, my mother would take…
Nothing prepared me for the deeply personal essay written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was published in The New Yorker on the 10th of September, 2020 and I remember taking breaks to stop myself from breaking down. Reading it felt like…
Chimamanda Adichie first mentioned this fall when she wrote about her father’s death on her social media pages. In this essay, she fully explores the fall, the concussion, the hospital staff and the anxiety following the fall. Reading it got…
Fela always simplified complex issues, and the Nigerian dilemma is unquestionably a complex one, which I myself have attempted to simplify to understand it better. – Sefi Atta (I enjoyed listening to Sefi Atta give this speech at the FELABRATION…
The late Toni Morrison once suggested that contemporary literature would be spared a good number of novels if authors would only write letters home once in a while. This one is long overdue. I used to think it was enough…
Scrolling through Facebook today, I came across a post by Ama Udofa; So when are we going to fish out the Nnamdi that Chimamanda Adichie was crushing on in secondary school? 🤔 I was still trying to decide on what reaction…
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…
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 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,…
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…
