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TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LIVE, by Marve Michael
I’ve known Marve since she was 7 or 8, and I’ve only ever know her to be extremely sprightely, spirited. So to reach deep and dig out this poem, this sad poem that needs talking about, that highlights the horrible crime that is rape, attests to what I often tell her; that she needs to…
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MY LUCKY NUMBER 10 by Banke Ogundairo
I have always insisted that Banke, my dear friend of 10 years can make a career out of writing if she took it seriously. When you read this piece where she coincidentally writes about 10 being her lucky number, you will agree with me. She discusses growing up with 9 siblings, the friendship of it…
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ANNOUNCEMENT; This Month, My Friend’s Are Taking Over My Blog
Hi Everyone, Throughout this Month some of my writerly and not so writerly friends will be taking over my blog. Drum rolls please…And I am so excited about it. January was when I first conceived the idea that I wanted to do this, so I tried to figure out the modalities and the best time…
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MARCH BOOK REVIEW; BIG MAGIC; Creative Living Beyond Fear
I didn’t agree with everything in this book. Some parts left me saying hmmmmm really? That doesn’t sound right. But the parts I did agree with left me nodding my head and fist bumping like we do in church these days. They also left me gladly smiling at the realisation of the fact that I’m…
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LONDON LIES, LAGOS CHILLING.
You know those people that go to America for one month and then on their return home suddenly start calling Police men – The Feds? As in, our stand-on-the-road-munch-groundnut-and-beg-for-50naira-policemen. Feds. Running down everything about Nigeria while attempting to be an IJGB. You literally just want to slap them and say c’mon will you adjust right…
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