you are sitting here thinking of how life and a firm fist has poked you in more places than one you are sitting and before you a stage undresses bringing to light an 8 year old who mistakenly has your features everything is yours the hair, the nose and worst of all, the grief and … More More Than a Stage | by Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye
School did not seem as a place of fun All the other kids cared to do was merely scorn Arrgh! I wish I was never born Where else would I run to? Who would I beckon for help? All the doors seemed locked He pinned me down with all of his strength I couldn’t think … More ABUSE | by Oluwatimilehin A.
I first started to fantasize about death when Dayo broke up with me. She had sent me a text that our relationship was not making headway and that she would much more prefer we stayed as just friends. I was devastated. I had spent the most of my teens thinking that Dayo was the one … More Pills and Potions | by Covenant Chimnonso
He is a mad man, He surely is. Who sees a shining star and dims its light. Who sees a promising child and then decides to make her promiscuous. You agree with me, a mad man. Funny but not never seen before, That mad man was once a trusted man. That mad man was once … More Let Loose | by Boluwatife Ishola
I came across this same man on that same route, and like a movie on replay, he stuck his head out to me and repeated the phrase and drove away slowly, I waved frantically at him to stop… … More Sexual Harassment | by Hauwa
I sleep and wake up in silence. I breathe with my stolen voices. I should halt my thought from speaking out. I assumed much damaged would be done and reputations would be damaged. Indeed, a reputation was tarnished but overwhelmingly, it was not theirs but mine. I googled what this meant, it was too much … More Harassment Changed My Life | by Deborah Agboye
Then like a rehearsed and planned arrangement, the other girls started to chant ‘My Vagina is for me, not for you’, these words echoed deeply at such early hour, the girls were relentless, thirty of them in uniform of purpose and determination of heart kept on chanting – ‘My Vagina is for me, not for you’. … More STRIPPED | by Akan X-Imoh
It’s not in my skin colour, Neither is it in my size It’s certainly not on the outside You’d only find it, if you look deep The more you look, the more you see You’d only see my abilities if you choose to look beyond my incapabilities, You’d never see the beauty in me, if … More The Beauty you Can’t See | by Akinleye Temiloluwa
I didn’t know I had a funny back until I got into Ikoji High School. My first day in class was terrible and confusing. It was terrible because the moment I hobbled in, a human-repellant came in. All of a sudden, I transformed into a powerful fan that blew everyone away, no one was going … More KARIKASHO | by Soogun Omoniyi
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