Calling the Kettle Black

Blacked pot and kettle.
Image: In-Sights

A while back, I spent some time with a family in Zaria. The house was a warm and loving environment where one couldn’t help but feel at home. It was a family of five, with the only female in the house being the mum. The boys are between the ages of seven and 13.

Someone Always Has It Worse Than You

A little child looking at his mother.
Image: Tolu Bamwo for nappy.com

I returned to Yola, Adamawa State, at the end of May 2016 after being away for five months. I came in at night and didn’t notice all the changes in my house: and there were many. I, however, saw that the security man's house was filled with people: a woman, her children, and a young man. I ignored them and went into my house.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY T.S. RALPH!

When I started the New Year in January, I prayed to GOD to help me increase my sphere of influence by expanding my reach. I made a pledge to start a podcast and vlog, which would be an audio and visual representation of blog.

It was easy to start the podcast but the vlog kept giving me problems! I didn’t know it was GOD’s way of making me wait for better.

Malformed and Rejected

Picture: ROSA VERLOOP

I sat in my room and remembered a young boy I once knew. I will call him Junior.

Junior was the first son of his parents. They had been blessed with four girls before Junior was born. Being African, his father didn’t feel like a man until he had his son.

Human Life, Destiny, and Free Will

Rob Wanders: Puppet on a String

I had a discussion with a woman recently that got me thinking.

The discussion revolved around marriage and having children. I was (and still am) of the opinion that marriage and childbirth is a part of a woman's life and not the entire reason for her existence. I believe that I am complete whether I decide to marry and have children or not.

Fuel Subsidy Removal: Worsening Nigerian Lives

Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels

For a while now, I have deliberately ignored commenting on the happenings in our country because one cannot speak against this government without being labeled ‘pro-Jonathan’, ‘pro-PDP’ or ‘anti-Buhari’. I know that this government needs time to get its foot firmly planted but refusing to see anything wrong with some of her policies – or the lack of it – is just wrong.

Feigning Innocence

Lost Innocence.
Image: Monster's Closet

Adakole looked at that body and he felt she was begging him to come to bed. He had always considered her a tease: especially because she was constantly hugging him, sitting on his thighs, or on the floor with her legs wide open and feigning innocence like she wasn’t deliberately arousing him. Well, it ends here. He is going to have her today!

CHANGING STEREOTYPES: MEET THE GIRL BEHIND LARNEY’S MAKE-OVERS

Rachel Eugene Michael.
CEO, Larney's Make-Overs.
Image: ProShot.

When I posted my vlog - There Are Many Hardworking Black Women….And They Are Not Runs Girls - I knew I touched some nerves. It was my first vlog to get hit with the ‘unlike’ button and trust me, it stung a little more than I would admit.