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 Continue Reading
RANDOM Documentation of Abia State, The National War Museum, Ojukwu’s Bunker, East-central Nigeria.
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 Continue Reading
Two Gorgeous Nigerian Women Singing Dreamy Disco About Women’s rights
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 Continue Reading
Overly burdened women – Cathrine Chidawanyika Makuvise
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 Continue Reading
KNOCK, KNOCK – By Caleb Ajinomoh
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 Continue Reading
Working Girl – By Arinzechukwu Patrick
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 Continue Reading
No Is Not Enough – By Angel Nduka-Nwosu
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 Continue Reading
Free Trade Agreement – By Roxann West
When bartering pleasures of the fleshAn exchange – is neva robbery,yu gi mi cash mi gi yu kind,instant gratification, mi have in mind,yu, not looking fi no commitment,an I… I jus looking a few dollars an cents so I can pay mi rent,Dis… a no, no love connection –so when Continue Reading
Adolescence On The Cusp of Youth – By Ernest Ankomah
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. Continue Reading
The Consciousness Project – Latifah Iddriss
Latifah Idriss is concerned that Ghana is slowly being engulfed by plastic waste, even more that society seems desensitised and apathetic towards the ever growing blight. This consciousness project is based on the belief that design can evolve into habitable forms that seek to meet the needs of the environment Continue Reading