Reading time: 3 minutes Continued from my previous entry. If you didn’t read my last entry, you can catch up by clicking here. Throw back to 2 days earlier: “Lo beere nkan ti Olayinka fe je. Ki o ba se.” “Go and ask what Olayinka will eat. Prepare it.”, My mother said. I looked at my mother with the equivalent […]
Poetry
Reading time: < 1 minute First, I lost the hook to my nose ring, A birthday gift from my old man, Fell down the drain into the sink. Later I lost one of my treasured books, While in transit aboard a long vehicle, Lost between stops. Then came the loss of a sum, One night at the […]
Diary
Reading time: 3 minutes At exactly 10:15 am, I woke up from my long undeserved sleep. By that time, I figured I must have slept for a total of 13 hours and 15 minutes. Usually, I sleep by 9 pm, latest. And I wake by 6 am, nearly all the time. What was happening to me? Am I […]
Poetry
Reading time: < 1 minute The night my ayeeyo died, I could not be with her, For reasons that I till date regret, Shortly after her demise, Habooba’s old goat put to bed, It was a fine young doe, Be-adorned with beaut right from the womb, One day, as I sat by Maami’s tomb, Brooding as I sang dirge tunes, […]
Diary
Reading time: < 1 minute Hi! My name is Morenike Ajibade. And I am an Ibadan girl. Bèéni. I say this because, I have been in Ibadan all of my life. Born and bred. I have never really had the chance to really get out. As per, I am the entire recipe for an “omo get inside”. (An omo get […]