Oct 24, 2017 | Non-Fiction, Opinion, Personal |
“I hate plantains!” said nobody ever. Have you met anyone who absolutely hated plantains or plantain chips? I haven’t. In all my life, I have never ever heard anyone declare that he or she hates plantains. Instead, plantains get a lot of...
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Mar 14, 2017 | Non-Fiction, Personal, Writing |
Growing up in Lagos changes the way you view the world. For me, it has fundamentally colored and shaped the way I analyze things. So, it’s only natural that a discussion on writing will start from an experience set nowhere else but Lagos. In the part of Lagos where...
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Jan 31, 2017 | Opinion, Personal |
When you watch movies, sometimes there are scenes that try to capture a character’s memory. Unless it’s one of those cerebral or sci-fi movies where the supposed memory is actually something that is going to happen in the future, the memory revolves...
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Jan 2, 2017 | Non-Fiction, Personal |
There is something I have wanted to talk about for a while, something I need to share here, for your ears only. *sigh* It’s a new year, so I figured, this is a good time to come clean. There’s no point hiding this for another second. Are you...
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Feb 12, 2014 | Non-Fiction, Opinion, Personal |
Growing up in Nigeria, it was common to hear food that had pepper in it described as being “pepperish.” So, I am used to that word: pepperish. But, I do believe the correct word is peppery. Today, however, I don’t particularly care about the...
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Nov 19, 2013 | Non-Fiction, Personal |
After ploughing through a book and reaching ‘the end,’ you can physically close it and put it down. You can put it back in your personal library, return it to the local library, stand on it in the hopes that it will turn into a magic carpet, etc. What...
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Nov 17, 2013 | Non-Fiction, Personal |
Since I discovered the wonders of free e-books via sites like Project Gutenberg and Google Books, I have been downloading them like crazy. Many of the classics are there for free. Thanks to e-reader apps on my phone like Kobo (which is my favorite e-reader app,...
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