Hey guys, Suyi here. Over on Facebook, I’ve been trying to show everyone how I make time to read and write amidst a busy life. Chisom blocked me one night at the car park and asked why I wasn’t sharing this juicy info with you guys. So, because I feared for my life, I had to succumb. […]
Dear Mr. Bright Adawisi: Three things…(3)
This is the final part of this 3-part letter. Read the first part HERE (1) and the second part HERE (2) … The third event was in SS 2, my penultimate year in secondary school. A bunch of us were going to the Nigerian International Secondary Schools Model United Nations (NISSMUN) conference and you were our designated chaperone. I […]
Dear Mr. Bright Adawisi: Three things…(2)
This is the second part of this 3-part letter. Read the first part HERE The second event was still in JSS 1; it was maybe the second or third term, just after I joined the Debate team. I forget the name of the opposition school now but they were one of the few key ‘competitors’ […]
Dear Mr. Bright Adawisi: Three things…
Dear Mr. Bright Adawisi, I am writing this letter because I have wanted to do so for the longest time. To thank you for the influence you had on me through six years of secondary school – arguably my most formative years – but particularly, for three events that I have never forgotten. I wanted […]
“Hunter’s Game” now on Youtube
Hey guys, I’m excited to announce that Ogechi Nwobia’s Hunter’s Game is now currently available on Youtube. Remember the story about the lover boy who comes home one night and realizes his girlfriend has an entire world he knows nothing about? Well, click here to watch it for free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9NrgPxomwk&t=1732s You can subscribe to the […]
Full of Sh*t
**Disclaimer: Some elements of this post might gross you out, especially if you’ve got an auto-generate imagination like mine. So, you know…you are welcome 🙂 … Shaftesbury road, Watford. 27 April, 2019. It’s weird the things that humble me these days. Like the other day after taking a dump, I happened to look in the […]
“Hunter’s Game” Is Coming…to your screen soon
Hi guys! Some of you probably remember Hunter’s Game written by Ogechi Nwobia on her blog in 2016. Well, we’ve got exciting news. Ogechi is taking Hunter’s Game to screen! Hunter’s Game is being made into a series but for now, a pilot is set to be released and it will be available to everyone […]
Sweet boy
See person pikin, see as e fresh… You dry your dripping body with the towel, careful to avoid ripping it in places where time and use have stretched it thin. You try to calculate how much money you have gotten in a week. You can’t. You’re assured it is a sizable sum. You remind yourself […]
Poets’ Thursday: Psalm for the Black
Black’s Artistic It carries hymns with it sailing the clouds of Universe Black’s Mystic On the floor canvas of Heaven it is painted Black’s the Ink For Deities to sketch life’s patterns Black’s the Link Between the Saints’ and the Devils’ dwellings Black’s the Wine Blood-red in the golden cup of Lovers Black’s Divine Martyrs […]
Poets’ Thursday Review: A Different Kind of Hunger
Ifeanyi looked for my trouble with this poem. A Different Kind of Hunger shot something into my veins that blurred the world around me; like I couldn’t see very clearly but the bits I saw, I caught with alarming clarity. This poem awakened a different kind of hunger in me, and I can’t wait to […]
Poets’ Thursday: A Different Kind of Hunger
The blank screen stares at me, beckoning me to write. I wonder if it has anything for me to hold onto, I wonder if I can look at it Without the temptation of a different kind of hunger. How does my life become what I’d rather it be, By urge of my will, without my […]