A collection of stories to be murdered by

“Konidafun e” This should have been a stinging attack, but it was delivered in Yoruba contaminated by a higher education and a sprinkle...

Prologue The surest way to know that you are approaching 3rd mainland bridge is that there will be a violent attack on your olfactory...

This one is for Timah, who wept at Maintenance gate because we saw a boy fall off a bike with his mother. This one is for that boy....

A scattered recollection of thoughts and events

No matter who we are or where we are. To be Nigerian, is to never have enough.

“Again, that hard truth of life keeps staring at me in the face. You will never have everything you want at the same time. Something will...

Waking up every day to be dragging generator wire and carrying petrol keg up and down is so out of character for me as a bad bish.

Prologue Happy new year!!! Oh my God!, it’s a new year: I’m going to be twenty-three. I need a plan!!!!. My sweet sixteen plan has yet to...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Today is the funeral, together we’re burying the undead. If I told you anytime in the last six months that I...

Written under the influence of Falz’s Moral Instruction Dear You, This is a rant— incoherent, angry and bitter. This is a show of pain...

A lot of teenagers were embarrassed of and by their parents but Priscilla bore this much more than any of her peers. Priscilla, on days...

“This year is the year of perfection. If you don’t believe in perfection, you will not have it” – Chris Oyakhilome Did I not believe...

NANA One day, I will write a book about you. This was supposed to be a sad story but I refuse to tell it that way. Gratefulness, a...

She swore it would never happen again the last time it happened. And the time before that and the time before that. And then she would...

Adiguuuuuuuuuun!!!!’ Adigun’s mother screamed from within the room she slept with her family. ‘Haaa this child will kill me’ Adigun...

It was always a pleasure to view this city. Ibadan wasn’t beautiful in the way one expected a city of its spread and weight to be. It was...

Tolúwalàṣẹ looked at her father. He was a small man. No, not short, not thin, small. Her father was tall, he was built the way labourers...

Adeyinka skipped the gutters that led to the address Bimbo had sent her the night before. She found it slightly amusing that Bimbo would...

The image will stay with me for years, me standing aloof while a man was getting killed, blood all over his face and clothes. His...

AUTHOR’S NOTE Now that this has come before you read and enjoy and probably learn but under no circumstance should you feel obligated to...