TRADING INTIMACIES (1)

4/16/12 •

The term sister wife, actually, is one I gleaned from a smaller branch of Mormons who use the term. In my language we say ohini, which means rival. And then in secondary school, when people discovered my family set up was polygamous, they would inevitably ask what number my mother was. For reasons I didn’t understand then my insides would become incandescent with rage. They only meant, in order of marriage, and total number of wives, what position does your mother hold. I never heard it so simply though, so innocently.

Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop (1)

4/16/12 •

Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, from August 14 to August 24 2012.

Self Publishing: Earning a place unsoiled by Stigma (0)

3/19/12 •

Are you a writer with manuscript after manuscript fielding off questions from friends tired of seeing you scribbling stories they will never get to read because publishers wont even spare you a proper rejection letter and you are too scared of the self righteous onslaught from the writers community looking down their noses at self published work?

ENTRANCES AND EXITS (1)

3/03/12 •

Heart pumping like a broken down coal train

Tears making music

Sweet but hollow; like a ballad in an empty theatre

Eyes wide shut

Nostrils flared. Teeth bared. Mind awake.