This post was originally published in February 2021 and has been updated. Black history month gives you an opportunity to understand black history, what it…
Here’s a poem in two parts, written about 2 years ago. It is funny how the so-called silhouette challenge reminded me of my then unfinished…
I warmly welcome everyone into this fresh start/New year. Interestingly, it is just another day/month just as every other. Beyond the euphoria, nothing is different,…
This menace should be attended to because women, especially through their resiliency and hidden strength, can positively affect the growth and development of the nation…
I am angry, yet unapologetic about it. We tend to think of anger as an abominable, negative emotion, but research finds that anger is not…
In this appealing and perceptive book, Eviatar Zerubavel explains how the words we use and do not use reinforce dominant cultural norms. For instance, when…
In the South-Western part (Yorubaland) of Nigeria, there are various types of names.According to Oyeronke Ouewunmi, customarily, Yoruba names were not gender-specific and as such,…
So many questions to ask: where is the place of an African woman? Is her place in the kitchen? Is patriarchy African? Better still, what…
It is no news that children would always want to behave like children and as such they anger their parents. Although that is not our…
The beauty of nature is so real that sometimes I pinch myself to understanding it. Its effects transcend our outer world to our inner-oh! What…
Your feelings are yours and yours alone. I like to call them idiosyncratic. There are so many of us who like to blame others for…
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