August 2013
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EXCERPTS FROM MY TATTERED JOURNAL
Below is an excerpt from Temidayo S-A’s journal, dated 09-04-2010, exclusively shared on eclectictope.com. Enjoy!!! “…Yesterday evening, I was telling Hadassah how naïve and innocent I was when I was a kid. She marveled greatly. I have had feelings, I have had crushes, and I wrote love letters as early as age 7, 8 or 9.…
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ALCOHOL FREE…126 days and counting
Today, James Ndubuisi shares his feat on staying alcohol free for the past 126 days, and he is still counting. Be inspired!!! From the age of 16, I’ve lasted only a few weeks at most without drinking something, and that was only when I was in hospital or in a country where drinking just wasn’t…
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LIVING IN ROMANIA
Today on eclectictope’s Feature, the spotlight is on Ayo Alabi, as he writes on what it’s like living as a Nigerian in the far away country of Romania. Enjoy!!! So I study medicine in a country called Romania and in a city called Craiova. Remembering the name of the city was not an easy task…
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YOUR LIFE… OR YOUR HAIR
So apparently, ladies in Venezuela are the objects of what CNN now calls the scissors wielding thieves. They are hair thieves. This has to be the most ridiculous form of robbery I have heard but it is true. In the Venezuelan coastal city of Maracaibo, these thieves are called pirahans. Wherever a group of women…
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SHORT STORY
When I first used to go to Lagos, I used to go like a regular Nigerian citizen. I say regular because Lagosians are not regular Nigerian citizens, trust me. I always went with the same sweetness with which you go to Calabar or Akure or Osogbo. But very recently, I have noticed, that a certain type…
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