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  • MAN OF GOD

    MAN OF GOD

    The day I swore to stop attending my mother’s church, I was 18 years old, in university with the chance to for once be rebellious and get away with it. I was grown and old enough to make the decision of quitting her church, Sanctuary of Glory Evangelical Ministry Inc., but you see, I grew…

  • 8 Ways To Boost Your Mental Health (+1 Bonus)

    8 Ways To Boost Your Mental Health (+1 Bonus)

    When we get a huge major cut on our arm or a certain tumour nests itself on a vital organ of the body, we do not simply shake it off and will it to go away when it can. No. We take action, we seek help, we take medication, we nuture whatever wound results and…

  • DODGING…FIRE; A Memoir Piece

    DODGING…FIRE; A Memoir Piece

    Growing up in Ibadan, we perhaps had the most sheltered childhood in our neighbourhood, my siblings and I. Children played with sand in the streets, joined mobs to shout ole ole when they caught a robber and took baby chickens away from their mothers to feed them biscuit crumbs. We never did. The farthest we…

  • JULY BOOK REVIEW; THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

    JULY BOOK REVIEW; THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

    Author; John Green (American) Genre; Realistic Fiction.Young Adult fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: Dutton Books. Jan. 10 2012 Number of Pages; 316 (my hardcover copy) Price; £12.99 Other Titles; Paper Town, Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Kathrines  

  • NATURAL HAIR JOURNEY… AND SO WHAT?

    NATURAL HAIR JOURNEY… AND SO WHAT?

    I have often maintained that the increasing rise of African women now wearing their hair in it’s natural state is not a movement. No matter how much you hashtag naturalista, naturalhairjourney or naturalhairgang, it’s not that serious. At the end of the day, it is just hair. So, that someone else wants to wear her…