How do you console a boy who has lost his innocence to an event buried in guilt? do you bring a mirror to show him that change is the altar on which he sacrificed his boyhood to understand his body. his people & his country? do you build him a […]
Abia State was formed in 1991 from what was considered old Imo. Bordered by Ebonyi and Enugu to the north, Akwa-Ibom to the east/southeast, Rivers to the south-southwest, and Imo and Anambra to the west. Abia is known for its areas of oil-palm bush, a tropical rain forest in its […]
The Lijadu sisters saw the future, so much trouble in the streets. There are a lot of introspections going on in the African music scene right now and the youth today are going back to the pioneers. They want to know who originated certain rhythmic and melodic variations. Who started […]
I love Twitter. It’s such a mixing pot of opinions, some I agree with and some I baulk at. I make different sounds of disgust, surprise, glee etc because this is how I react to reading things. My face just won’t make the effort. So there I was scrolling down […]
KNOCK, KNOCK I never quite learned to knock. It had little to do with upbringing, or courtesy, or even a lack of respect for peoples’ privacies; I simply didn’t learn to knock. Maybe it had something to do with my peculiar left-handedness. Older people told you what hand to […]
Backseat yarns about the life of a Lagos runs girl. Wazobia FM threw back Christopher Nusa Ohenhen’s hit song “Dupey” on the car radio as Afo drove around the tarnished roads of mainland Lagos. The rhythmic sound of the old school instrumentals boomed softly from the car speakers and Afo […]
Sometimes no is not enough even when it is said firmly Sometimes no is not enough especially when a broken man holds a knife to your throat not when he uses the knife from YOUR kitchen to threaten you into undressing fearfully in. your. own. house Sometimes no is not […]
I have always been enthused by the idea of pulling moments of life and saving them in the form of photos, but travelling, across the length and breadth of Ghana has taught me to draw out the candid stories which lie behind these faces I meet every day. Ernest Ankomah. […]
A growing concern for the environment is apt because currently, it stands in our faces, no citizen of the world can say they are uninformed about waste or of the impending plastic doom in today’s society. The planet is warming and the repercussions are not subtle. Nature is crying out, […]
I remember falling into the gutter when I was seven. Returned home soaked and smelly, dripped in dirt. Told mama the neighborhood dog chased me, And I was sorry I lost the bread she sent me. It is ok, she said: You’ll buy plenty of bread for me one day I […]
