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The Joyful Linguist®️

@anafricandiva

3 years

If you’ve written a book and you need it thoroughly edited and proofread, I’m your woman.

The Joyful Linguist®️

@anafricandiva

3 years

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@anafricandiva

4 years

“I will tax you too.” 🥰

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5 years

My son is incredibly ticklish, but the worst part is how he’ll say “wait, wait, let me go and increase my braveness” and run to a corner to do a little thing. Then come back and just one small touch he’s laughing desperately again 😂😂😂

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5 years

Guess who’s sitting outside at a birthday party in her cornrows 😂 The MC said the first child to bring his/mum’s wig would win a prize. The speed with which I flung my wig off and gave it to my son🤣 I knew in that moment that there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him.

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Bible say fake pastor go show, but nobody wan gree say na their pastor be the fake. Everybody pastor na ginuwine.

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@anafricandiva

6 months

“I’m not your mate” is a weird thing to be hearing in marriage sha. Even in a friendship.

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@anafricandiva

3 years

We won’t forget the menace that SARS is. 😞💔🤯

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@anafricandiva

6 days

Real 😂

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Please walk me through the process of leaving an abusive marriage with 4 children, step by step. To live where/with whom and for how long? Will the children stop or change schools? Who will pay? Or the children will be left with the abuser? Please help a sister. Thanks.

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@anafricandiva

3 years

Apart from therapy, what are some things that have done wonders for your mental health?

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@anafricandiva

2 years

By the way, the person who refuses to answer your questions or let you copy their work in the exam hall is not the bad person. YOU are the one trying to engage in exam malpractice. I’ve been wanting to tweet this since that irritating joke at The Experience.

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@anafricandiva

11 months

God really ate with flowers sha.

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1 year

Pretty bouquet

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@anafricandiva

7 months

You lots just like throwing shades over unimportant stuffs.

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7 months

Nigerians and adding ‘s’ to every and anything. What the fuck is clouts? Are you possessed?

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@anafricandiva

1 year

All her effort in that marriage went to waste. One of the most wicked souls I have ever had the misfortune to know, that man. At least she’s alive.

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@anafricandiva

10 years

My friend hosted a surprise dinner for her hubby today. Boy, was he pleasantly surprised! I just envy the anointing she's receiving now.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Growing up, I thought adults singing “I have no power of my own” were just doing that to please the Holy Spirit. Omo.

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@anafricandiva

4 years

DJ Switch did not make allegations. She streamed the shooting on her Instagram Live. Pass it on.

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@Rihanat_sona

4 years

DJ Switch did not make allegations. She streamed the shooting on her Instagram Live. Pass it on.

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@anafricandiva

1 year

1. He got paid and sent the money to his wife fiam! 2. The spiritual destiny of his children is very important to him A family man I stan 🙌😂

láyí

@layiwasabi

1 year

Pov: Only God can judge your case

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@anafricandiva

5 years

I can’t breathe 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@anafricandiva

11 months

Singing the praises of his God now, with the saints triumphant. Well done Pastor Taiwo, you fought a good fight 🥺🤍🕊️

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@anafricandiva

3 years

It’s funny how when you’re crazy about someone, their charm is amplified. He’s standing? Gosh, look at the way he stands! 🥰 He’s sitting? Did any man EVER sit so gracefully in the history of sitting? 😍 Love na winsh.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

That’s how Titi of Skye Bank ACTUALLY MANAGED TO LEAVE and the families made her go back and that man eventually stabbed her to death. Then we tweeted for some time and went on the streets to walk against domestic violence and that was that. Abeg. Cho cho cho is easy.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

I've never seen anyone break down emotional abuse like Natalie Hoffman. Especially when she described the emotional abuser's ideal target. My jaw dropped.

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Divorce is almost always a cancer, rarely ever a heart attack. It creeps up on you slowly. Unless you’re checking for lumps and other symptoms every now and then, you’re usually too far gone by the time you realise.

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@anafricandiva

1 year

Party with a sitting Muslim president came up with a Muslim-Muslim ticket again but nobody is calling them Muslim party. It’s LP that is projecting as Christian party. If you don’t have anything sensible to tweet, wrap your phone neatly and throw it into the dustbin. Swine.

'𝐃𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐌𝐈

@YemmiOke

1 year

I think it’s high time LP stop projecting themselves as a Christian party.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Pray you marry a fundamentally kind person. Sheer kindness. Like, just be kind and prioritize being kind to each other. It shows up in so many ways.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Nothing. It tastes like nothing. Approach it expecting it to taste like moimoi and your heart will break into a million pieces.

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2 years

What does Okpa taste like?

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@anafricandiva

2 years

NO way I could have guessed where this was going 😭😂🤣

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Just because you’re fools doesn’t mean everyone else is. What is this?

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@followlasg

4 years

The distribution was on-going but had to be halted due to protests, before the invasion of the warehouse today. #LASG #ForAGreaterLagos

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@anafricandiva

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Gemma

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6 months

Lord!!!!!!!! I don’t even know if it’s JUST the Black community, but it needs to be addressed! Men need to cooperate with us in acknowledging this as what it is — ABUSE, so that we can aggressively tackle it as a collective. It’s so frustrating how much it’s downplayed.

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@anafricandiva

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Your voice o, your hand o, you’re not raising any one at me. Only one thing is rising up when we’re together, please and thank you.

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@anafricandiva

1 year

This babe fine sotay she fine reach hand. Wawu.

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1 year

Still boring, but spicy-boring. *growls*

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@anafricandiva

4 years

The way a man who is “ready to settle down” will chase you once he thinks you’re wife material ehn. If you’re not careful you won’t realize he doesn’t love you. Doesn’t even SEE YOU. Issa trap, sisteh. It will end in tears.

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@anafricandiva

3 years

“E dey the leg ooo!” 😂

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@anafricandiva

1 year

Been here for a full 4 hours now, haven’t voted, resisting the urge to peel this man’s t-shirt.

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@anafricandiva

9 months

I’m glad I didn’t scroll past this. There was a reminder in it for me.

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@anafricandiva

4 months

You can’t defrost what never gets a chance to frost. See about the frosting first 🫵🏻

Ikeja Electric

@IkejaElectric

4 months

Regularly defrost your refrigerator to enhance its efficiency. Keep fridge and freezer doors closed at all times, except when necessary. These practices contribute to significant energy savings, promoting a more eco-friendly and cost-effective household. #EnergySavingTips

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Lasisi. He doesn’t even need men. He don’t need no other bodyyy 😂

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2 years

Name one Nigerian male skit maker that doesn’t need women in his video to be funny.

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@anafricandiva

6 months

There’s a section of Twitter NG that will cause your brain to rot. You’ll feel it. Tufiakwa.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

My son just rubbed my tummy and said “Oh, my old home!” As if he remembers anything about living in there 😂 #LifeWithBobo

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Verbal abuse can be so subtle, so hard to see and acknowledge. And yet so, so, so painful. Na slow death many women dey inside marriage, I no fit lie give you. Na only Baba God dey see the wounds and scars. It is well.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

I think about this sometimes. Stranger than fiction 🥺

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Hmmm, Zebbie, you go talk who give you this belle!

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@anafricandiva

10 months

Happy 58th Birthday, Darlene Zschech 💜💜💜💜💜

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@anafricandiva

6 months

I’m here mostly because I couldn’t find a painless way to leave.

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@anafricandiva

3 years

People wey dey okay for Twitter NG no pass five. 😂

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@anafricandiva

6 years

"Mummy, are you poor?" The fact that he was sitting on my lap, his arm around my shoulder, made it worse. 😭😂 I'm not poor, my son. I just said I don't have money for fried rice and chicken, that's all. Thank you for your concern.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

Nobody pavet, but what is bad is bad and will always be bad. Shun corruption.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

I am unable to can 😂😂😂😂😂

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@anafricandiva

5 years

A few weeks after this hubby and I quarreled, those heated once-a-year ones. We were raising our voices, assured that Bobo was napping. Only for this boy to slide under the duvet next to me in the evening and whisper, “So today was your day for tension, right?” 😭

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@anafricandiva

5 years

Him: Mummy what is tension? Me: Remember when you broke your second pair of glasses in church and Daddy said he was going to deal with you when we got home? Him: Yes. Me: Remember how quiet the car was and how you felt throughout the ride home? Him: Yes. Me: That’s tension.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

This boy walked to the carton where I keep his snacks and drinks and goes, “Ah, this thing is full o, you bought a lot! It’s like you really love me o.” I am unable to can. 😂😂😂

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@anafricandiva

27 days

Bringing the soup out of the freezer is one of my favourite moments of the day. Ebanticipation! 🤸‍♀️

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Alex Ekubo, why this? 😂😂😂

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@anafricandiva

1 year

Interesting!

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@anafricandiva

3 years

When your person is your person 😂

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@anafricandiva

2 years

No. You can drop the “too” and say “I love you.” Or you can say “I love you more” then they’ll say “I love you most” then you’ll say “I love you MOSTEST.” If they’re near you, at this point you should kiss them so they can’t talk anymore and you’ll have the last word.

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2 years

Just thinking out loud, when your partner says “I love you”, must you always respond saying “I love you too”?

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@anafricandiva

5 years

I just narrated my favourite miracle of Jesus Christ to my son (the woman with the issue of blood) and oh, all the facial expressions! 😂 As I ended the story he started running around shouting “That’s my Man! That’s my Man! The Son of God!” Yes, baby, my Man too 🤣

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@anafricandiva

5 years

Sometimes I wonder whether men are not embarrassed, ashamed, mortified, offended, insulted by the way their utter lack of self control is implied in counsel dished out to women, from pulpit to screen and everywhere in between.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

Bobo: Mummy why did you make my birthday in September? Whyyy? Me: I’m not the one that did it o! Bobo: God, why did you do this to meeee? Whyyyy??? All this drama because he wants his birthday to be in the same month as the girl he likes in church.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

The average abusive partner isn’t abusive all the time. In fact, a lot of the pain comes from “is this not the person I was just having a great time with?” It does thingssss to the mind and the body keeps the score. If the sex is now sweet on top? Double wahaleaux.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

Sure way to die young: keep replaying events and flogging yourself when you err. So you made a mistake. Who hasn't? Stop dwelling on it and move on, but not before you've learnt from it. And the way to do that is to look, not where you fell, but where you slipped.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

@Kingwole I barely managed to watch this to the end. How much more disgusting can these people get? They care nothing for God or for justice, only their bellies! 🤮

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@anafricandiva

3 months

This thing has been cracking me up since last night because ACTUALLY 😂

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@anafricandiva

1 year

@OlusolaJon Yes, he pretended for a long time and then true colours came out. That’s all I’m at liberty to say.

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@anafricandiva

3 months

Dear WhatsApp, Archived messages should go the bottom, please. I don’t need the constant reminder in my face. Thank you.

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@anafricandiva

1 year

Gentle parenting is not permissive parenting. 👍

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@anafricandiva

5 years

My friend wept bitterly. Someone asked her when she was getting married. This was not why she cried; lord knows she gets that stupid question, complete with the grating tone, every day.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

“Your happiness is your responsibility. You can’t depend on your partner to make you happy.” Yes, yes👌 But people whose partners make them happy, do they have two heads?

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@anafricandiva

5 years

10PM. “Mummy, I want to tell you how I’m feeling. I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not afraid, I’m just...hungry.” He ate and went back to sleep. Asked in the morning why he didn’t just say he was hungry. “You would have said ‘my friend go back to sleep!’” Therefore, format 😂

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@anafricandiva

5 years

So grateful for my husband. I had no idea how important having a fully involved co-parent for my child would be for my wellbeing. It wasn’t even anywhere on my list of qualities. What did I even know I needed? God of my life, my head touches the ground.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

I wasn’t expecting her to agree that it is abuse. Even when she gets to the point of admitting it to herself, it will still take a while to admit it publicly. That is precisely why she has my sympathy. It’s hard to read the label when you’re inside the bottle.

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@anafricandiva

3 years

A thread of my favourite pick-me-up videos.

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@anafricandiva

3 years

@CollinsKaranja3 “These people don’t have money” is sending me 🤣🤣🤣

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Did you know? #WILR

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@anafricandiva

5 years

I stan this child, and the teacher 😄💕

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@anafricandiva

1 year

I wonder how Mary and Joseph felt when Jesus was missing. Was it all parental concern or was there a bit of “make Messiah no come lost for our hand”? 🙊

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@anafricandiva

7 months

You will not see wind; you will not see rain; but the valley shall be filled with water. By the hand of the Lord!

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3 years

E K E T I

@eketiette

3 years

People would be angry/bitter at uncles & aunties for not taking care of them but not with the parents who had them with no future plans. Your parents have 8 kids but your uncle with 4 kids is wicked because his children travel for summer when you haven't paid school fees. How???

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@anafricandiva

4 years

There are no guarantees to this marriage thing. You can do everything you know to do, and still have your marriage not work out. But does that mean you should dive in with reckless abandon? Certainly not.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

@Cuntosaur I thought I was the only one!!!

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@anafricandiva

5 years

So, I’m still addicted to Bobo’s cheeks but unlike before when I could kiss him anytime, now I have to ask and he obliges. Only for him to now come and offer me the cheeks without me asking! Me: How did you know??? Bobo: I saw your face na. I know you. 🙆🏻‍♀️😂🤣 #LifeWithBobo

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@anafricandiva

5 years

Sis, if you want to wait until marriage to have sex, please be with someone who WANTS to wait until marriage. Anything else will end in tears.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

What did her life REALLY teach you?

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@anafricandiva

4 years

When I was growing up, “lists” were a must in Christian circles, and every serious believer looking to date and marry, had one. Even when we learnt how to leave out the less important things and focus on the major issues, we still ended up with lists that were quite robust.

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Bobo just got off the phone with his friend after discussing everything from cartoons & comics to the ozone layer & how many hours are in 10 days. 🤓🤓😂😂 When I notice he is crying he says, “It’s just tears of joy.” It’s not been easy for the little ones. #LifeWithBobo

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@anafricandiva

8 months

I do not want to live like this. I don’t want to protect myself from my Person. If it’s so, I’m not doing 😞

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@utomisphere

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I believe that, no matter how deeply you trust your partner, everyone should have an individual emergency fund in case of madness.

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@anafricandiva

6 years

My book will be titled “Nora and I Spoke”. Iz about a girl da dindin have sense, and dindin have respect, and how we need at least one of the two to make it in laive.

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@anafricandiva

2 years

@EIysian__ @Sisi_Yemmie Our school sent a social media consent form. If you agree, no child will ever be named in the captions, just photos. And if you don’t agree they won’t be posted at all.

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1 year

Partnered people, where did you meet your person? 💝

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@anafricandiva

5 years

@msleenah @M0re_nike Exactly. Sometimes I see them being foolish in other people’s mentions and block immediately, because I never want to see their foolishness again, much less have it come near me.

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@anafricandiva

5 years

There are no words to describe what a blessing this woman has been to the Body. I remember reading the notes she wrote while battling cancer and thinking, that's a worship leader right there! She turned 54 two days ago 🥳🎉 It's Darlene Zschech week!

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@anafricandiva

1 year

Definitely @stelladamasus . 🥰 I was an awestruck youngin’ but she was so sweet and gracious! 🤩 She even gave me her number. Her real number, you guys. I would call her every year on her birthday and she would pick up, and actually remember me 😂💖

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Who's the nicest celebrity you've ever met/what happened:

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@anafricandiva

4 years

Happy birthday to me! 🎂💃🏻🎁🎊 🎉 #DearElona is now available on OkadaBooks. Thank you for buying, reading and telling someone about my book! 💓

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@anafricandiva

4 months

None. That’s not necessarily the purpose of discussions. Conversations help you observe a person’s values and how they approach matters. Pay attention, and you'll notice patterns. Discussing remains one of the most crucial things you can do before marriage.

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No amount of “discussion” is going to prepare you for what you will experience inside marriage.

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4 years

😂 9 years today. I still no remember.

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@anafricandiva

6 years

On this day 7 years ago I followed man to Ikoyi Registry to adore him with my body and endow him with all my worldly goods and sumtin sumtin. I no even remember wetin dem say make we talk 😄💕

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The Joyful Linguist®️

@anafricandiva

5 years

My experience with hospitals is extremely limited, but I’ll never forget the nurses who attended to me throughout pregnancy and childbirth & the ones who took care of my tiny preemie for 4 weeks in the SCBU. Such compassionate, skilled, amazing professionals. God bless them. 💕

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The Joyful Linguist®️

@anafricandiva

6 years

On this day 7 years ago I followed man to Ikoyi Registry to adore him with my body and endow him with all my worldly goods and sumtin sumtin. I no even remember wetin dem say make we talk 😄💕

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The Joyful Linguist®️

@anafricandiva

5 years

Bobo: Mummy no house fellowship today? Me: No. Uncle Tony’s sister died and he’s feeling very sad so we’re going to tell him sorry. Bobo: Oh!😞Are children going for the sorry? Me: No, only us parents. Bobo: Ehen. Because I cannot pet Uncle Tony o.

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