Opinion
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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…
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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…
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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…
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GARAGE SALE. GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE
Hi guys, It’s the weekend…well almost so yayy yayy for Friday. My Muslim readers, hope the past month has been a wholesome experience? Now let’s get down to the business of the day. Items for sale guys!!! gbalaun! gbalaun!! gbalaun!!! You need to call your brother and neighbour and church member and everyone you can…
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JUNE BOOK REVIEW; ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Author; Anthony Doerr (American) Genre; Historical Fiction Publisher/Year of 1st Publication: Scribner. May 6th 2014 Number of Pages; 531 (my paperback copy) Prizes won; The Pulitzer prize for fiction 2015 and Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in Fiction (2015) Price; £8.99 Other Titles; The shell collector, Four Seasons in Rome. This book has…
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