Sep 25301. It is Sunday, September the 24th, and 11:36 PM in Minneapolis when I begin to write this. In this place, I am still twenty-nine but in Nigeria, I am thirty. …Birthday3 min readBirthday3 min read
Sep 25, 202229A Journal Entry (13th August, 2022) It is 10:00AM in Minneapolis. I am in M’s living room listening to Cesaria Evora and I could have sworn that I am in a dream, and I have been trying to wake up but it’s still real and I am still here and…Birthday3 min readBirthday3 min read
Sep 25, 202128A “I have not been writing because I have been afraid” -Journal Entry (16/5/2021) In May, after battling the inertia for so many months, I made a first entry into my journal (a fuchsia coloured notebook interspersed with white circles). While I have been able to document titbits of my…Birthdays2 min readBirthdays2 min read
Jan 2, 2019BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS BEING SWALLOWED BY MEMORY (Excerpts from my 2018 journal)JANUARY · I will like to state that this journal is one of the ways I have chosen to battle the curse of memory which is forgetfulness. · I am entering 2018 with a different kind of fear, a fear that numbs. · The inertia is also a curse. I…Nonfiction7 min readNonfiction7 min read
May 29, 2018IFÈ*** Arrival *** Ifè does not open her arms to welcome you the way Ìbàdàn would. You know this because you notice how she takes you in slowly, cautiously, like a coy lover telling you to learn the language of her body before yearning to speak to it. But when…Nonfiction3 min readNonfiction3 min read
Jan 14, 2018A Curation of RandomnessA A man died recently. Let us call him ‘C’. I did not know him in life, not even his name. But when he died, I read people write about his dying and his living. …Grief2 min readGrief2 min read
