Beautiful

Today, a man told me I was beautiful He was young and cute And I had no make up on Maybe he was just being nice. I'm sure he did not mean it. Today, a man told me I was beautiful He was rich and much older than I am I was not well dressed…

THE VISIT

Chinwendu was stomping out of the parlour when I entered. She did not return my greeting, did not even spare me a glance. She shut her door with a bang so loud, I started, the dog began to bark and the baby started wailing. 'Look what you've done!' her mother called out after her. I…

Mini Bus

27-03-2018 Today I met a mini bus. That shouldn't be news since I live in Aba and minibuses seem to be the recent craze. (For those of us who have never met one before, the minibus is the direct elder brother of the tricycle aka keke napep.) The news however is that this minibus was…

The Things My Father Buys

26-3-2018 I am a snob. Not in the snobby kind of way, whatever that means, but there are things I look down on. Things like cure it all drugs and drugs sold in parks, in buses, by the road and by people whose shirt stick to their body held together by rivers of perspiration. By…

FEMINIST

Feministthe theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexesFeministwhat they call you for dreamingFeministwhat they call you for doingFeministwhat they call you for winningFeministwhat they call you for wanting better, for doing better, for becoming better.Feminista person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in…