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CLOSURE.

There's a cue from an award-winning movie titled Dry and a TV series titled Jenifa's Diary. I know this is really very mainstream, especially for the latter but I'd still write anyways. Dry is a movie about a female gynaecologist/obstetrician who found her closure...

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POSITIVITY WITHIN NEGATIVITY.

I have finally got one major muse for a central message for this month after running my imaginations deep and scribbling out drafts of different things to write about. I had originally wanted to give my few cents and thoughts on the aspect...

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PRIDE AND COMMON SENSE

There is something that peppers my intestines with alacrity - people who are too proud at heart especially when they know something and think they are too good at it and are therefore, irreplaceable. It is peppery and discomforting. It is highly irritating to...

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BEING CALM.

During my time as a Batch B youth corps member serving the fatherland in Edo state, I witnessed a very dramatic situation I learned a thing or two from. While I was serving in Edo, I lived in a 5 bedroom shared apartment with...

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!! (APRIL SPECIAL COVER)

5 MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS I HAVE LEARNT IN THE PAST ONE YEAR. 1) YOU ARE NOT DESIGNED TO WORK FOR MONEY. Yep! I said it. Go to school, get a good paying job and slave away till you die.. Fa fa fa….fowl!!! You are...

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CARNAL DESIRES AND REALITY.

In life, there are some things that pepper my body. I mean, they give me wild shivers down my bone marrow, such as the sounds of a baby's cry or little children suffering for the mistakes their parents made. These things pierce my senses...

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BETWEEN STEREOTYPES AND MY AFRICAN-NESS.

I live in a part of the world where the average African is stereotyped as everything bad and negative, as one who is unproductive. You mention the word African and they start to think of voodoo (juju). Being the only black person in a...

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DÉJÀ VU.

I felt a sharp pain on my waist and jumped up with a start. It was that common, consistent pain I felt from my waist down to my left leg which was severely bound in a cast for quite a long while. The pain...

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WHERE DID HUMANITY GO?

Memoir from a puzzled mind... On a certain cold and bleak winter morning, my sights were set on sail to Alberta's Number 1 Hall of Fame, that popular school where many proud hearted 'overgrown babies' carry their faces like expired shit that refused to...

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CAVE LAND.

Memoirs from the Cave.... When I was much younger, I used to see myself as being the vibrant albeit quiet city girl that was born, bred and raised in a suburban city setting far away from the East. I was also deficient and handicapped...