Blog

Born A Crime is absolutely brilliant. Noah is not just funny on stage or in front of a camera; I found myself laughing out loud in many...

Binta should have been back at her hostel by 10pm, when the scrawny caretaker locked the gates – and never opened it until 6am, no matter...

Praise Buhari For his stoic silence In face of death --of civilians --and soldiers --and children Oh, Praise Buhari For his shrug of...

I often imagine another life for my uncle One where he does not live alone In a house he built A house with empty bedrooms and a deserted...

The day you die Will begin like any other day You will search for your ringing phone in the darkness And lazily dismiss the alarm You...

They say, "The marriage fell apart" Like it was a thing of its own A living, breathing thing That chose to pack up and leave An entity...

It is the smell of ogi Cooking on a kerosene stove When the house is still quiet And the air outside still carries the song of crickets...

Home is the mouth of a shark With laundry Spread across squalid teeth And generators Balanced on odious tongue Black fumes Rising into...

they came at night blood-thirsty soldiers guns cocked for battle with unarmed singing flag-waving civilians call the massacre by its name...

“Brush up on the English.” The beady-eyed official at Durian Employment Services and I had been sitting in a sparse eighth-floor office,...

It was amidst pandemonium at Ojuelegba bus stop that I met Rosemary, one Wednesday evening on my way home from work. I was waiting at the...

The man who lived on the floor below Naomi was an ex-con with prison tattoos on his face, and each time Naomi called her sister, she...

Working in the hustle and bustle of Lagos has taken on toll on Ella and Peter, but then they find each other. Peter first noticed her...

Femi lived down the hall from us. He was a lean man whom life had toughened up early; you could tell from the way he walked, from the...

Mummy's gone. She died at 2:34pm. Call me. You remember looking at that text and thinking what kind of psychopath would send such a...