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Heeey, bookworms! I’m Aisha, the founder of the African Lit Club, and I’m thrilled you’re here. This club is my passion project – a place for us to geek out over the rich literary traditions of Africa and its global diaspora. I started The A Word blog a couple years back, diving into all kinds […]
Blurb Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage–after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures–Yejide is still not […]
I was 10 and addicted to the burning feeling of the relaxer in my hair. The hairstylist would look at me as she massaged the chemical into my scalp, saying ‘tell me when it burns, my dear’. I’d nod but secretly relished the tingling in my scalp. That meant it was working. So I would […]
Blurb: Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. She isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the home of a celebrity chef, and a curator who […]
There is something macabre about these Disney/Pixar shows and how they force unsuspecting adults to face the very thing they run to these light movies to forget. Inside Out 2 paints an eerily close picture of my inner self’s battle between Joy and Anxiety. And it shook me. From early school days, a path is […]
On Tuesday 9th of July, 3 women (Carol Hunt, 61, Hannah Hunt, 28, and Louise Hunt, 25) were found close to death in their home in Hertfordshire. Unfortunately, they did not survive. The perpetrator of this vicious crime tied them up and shot them with a crossbow before fleeing their home, to be captured on […]
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark- or in this case, the United Kingdom. A very concerning situation was highlighted by July 4th‘s election results. While ultimately we knew the Labour Party would win most constituencies, the presence of Reform closely behind is astonishing. Nigel Farage and his Reform party won 5 seats […]
You have my deepest sympathy for this major esteem killer. Beware of the manager who craves constant updates, that magnifies minute errors, that trusts no one but themselves and their input. Like a Mosquito that drains your blood but is not satisfied till it flickers by your ears, buzzing, craving more and more. Pardon my […]
As a little girl in Nigeria, whenever I was asked where I was from, I would say England. My teachers would shake their heads and tell me, ‘no, you’re Nigerian’. I was adamant; I was British. I had a red passport to show. However, I was weighed down by the green Nigerian passport laid below […]
Covered in a blanket ‘free will’ and enveloped by ‘rights’ is a plague on the world. It hides under the alias of democracy- a government for the people, of the people and by the people. What Abraham Lincoln failed to mention was: ‘the people’ actually means the elite. Those who have fortune and name in […]
