Let Her be More: A Child Bride is still a Child.

October has many celebrations, like Nigeria’s independence, my birthday and the International girl child’s day. I hate to draw connections, but I am too superstitious to think of it as a coincidence. It must be my fate to tell women's stories. But you must forgive me this once for I have no stor…

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BE WOMAN. BE FREE

I envy old women. And it is not because I want to grow old. Why skip the good part? There is an immunity that comes with aging. It cloaks them with invincibility and grants them unlimited freedom. The kind that lets them do as they deem fit.  The kind that lets them grow wings and fly. So no one ra…

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On why you should not be Woman (II): A Tale of Grief.

There is something sad about hospitals. A heavy sense of foreboding. A tale of sad tidings. An overshadowing cloud of doom.  And if you ask the necromancer, the lingering of ghosts. But we need not be necromancers to agree. We saw it for ourselves. You and I , in ward 3, Room A10 of something - somet…

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ON WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BE WOMAN

In the spirit of international women's day - which I know possessed me late - I decided to write a woman-themed story. To show its contrition, this spirit has decided to stay the rest of the month and make all my March stories female focused.  (Pauses for a minute silence to let the  feminists&#…

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On Gender: Everyone should Pray!

Asides, male chauvinism, another thing that irks me is the fallacy that women are the prayer warriors of the house. Forgive me if I beg to differ.  Growing up in Southeastern Nigeria, I was aware of my gender like I was aware of my skin. I was expected to act accordingly to stand in good stead with …

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