This story has seen different forms, beaten into different shapes. It’s been mine for the longest, I believe it’s finally ready for the world.
Thank you
@Efikomag
for accepting this story and treating it with so much care.
Do read it here:
I told my mum that there will be an
#EndSARS
protest in Enugu on Tuesday, by 7am. She immediately set a 6am alarm to wake me up. 😂😂😂 I love this woman.
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.
A whole law graduate!!!!! LLB in the bag!!!! Still unreal to me!!
After 2 successive strikes and COVID, I’m a law graduate from the best faculty of law in Nigeria!! Talk to me nice 😂😂
Congratulations to me! Dear Dad, hope you’re watching me from heaven, your boy is a lawyer!
Hello
@duolingo
, I lost my phone & as a consequence of that, my 365+ days streaks are all gone. It has made me really sad & I would really appreciate it if my streaks are restored. Thank you!
I made the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Longlist!!!
Top 187 out of 7359 stories!!
And to think that this is the first time I’m applying for this Prize makes this win quite surreal to me
@Ethereal_ilo
tysm for editing my story and for edging me on ❤️
We go again next year 🤞🏼
The "Igbo Landing" story of 1803: (A Thread)
In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted by capsizing their ship and drowned themselves while singing in Igbo, a song that translates to...
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Y'all UNEC students, be very careful!!
There's a rapist in UNEC!!!!
A woman who has a shop in students center was raped around 7am on gun point!!
WTF is happening???
So excited that this essay which is so important to me has found a beautiful home
@Lolwe_
@TroyOnyango
thanks for accepting this essay and being so gentle with it.
You can read it here
"Enemies beware: the worst has happened; my father is gone; my madness will now bare itself." - CNA
#worldChimamandaDay
Please help me retweet to win this 😭
To celebrate our queen,
@ChimamandaReal
’s birthday, we’re giving away a complete Adichie collection. To participate:
1) Quote this tweet with your favourite Chimamanda Adichie quote and add the hashtag
#WorldChimamandaDay
The tweet with the highest retweet wins!
I used to think that adulthood was one crisis after another. I was wrong.
as it turns out, adulthood is multiple crises, concurrently, all the time, forever.
1. Got published on multiple creative magazines
2. Was among the top 10 finalist for the International Crystal Wilkinson’s Writing Prize 2021
3. 2nd Runner Up at the Agbazuere National Human Right moot and mock trial competition
4. Became an
@AmnestyNigeria
trained human right…
Top 5 books I read this year
1. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2. On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe
3. Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
4. Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
5. Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
This is your sign to read them if you haven’t 🫵🏽
I told you I got posted to Kano for Law School and you’re telling me Kano is a beautiful city.
What concerns me and it being a beautiful city? Am I going there for tourism???
Mention 10 popular happily married Nigerian Twitter feminist icons. Okay, make it 3. Just 3.
If you don’t notice the pattern, then you’re disingenuous or just dishonest.
I lost my best friend in secondary school on the day he was meant to write his JAMB exam. He was full of life and dreams but left just like that.
I wrote an essay about it, which was published by
@Lolwe_
You can read it here:
When 1st years say they want to make first class, don't shut them up, don't laugh at them, don't tell them they can't do it, ENCOURAGE THEM. That you couldn't make it doesn't mean they can't. Everybody won't be an olodo like you.
Day 1
Our Girl, Bimpe by Olakunle Ologunro (
@KunleOlogunro
).
I’m a big fan of Ola and his prowess. The excellence with which he told this story is absolutely unmatched. Have a good read.
To celebrate September (my birth month), I will be posting short stories, essays, and poems that struck me with the beauty and light they carry. These stories have, in one way or the other, impacted my writing; so it’s only befitting I celebrate them this September.
Enugu people can be sooo lazy ehh.
How can you give your cloth to this Dry Cleaner to iron for you and she'll say she doesn't have strength.
Like you don't have strength for your business???
Calm down and understand people. If you don't understand, ask them to explain their self rather than miscontruing and raging out.
Keep calm and understand people.