… and not in a good way. I expected many things when I went away to camp but least of all to come back..
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ArticlesThere are no toilets in this camp. Noone is pooing. I’ve gone once since I’ve been here and I had to sneak out of camp to a field across the road and sit on a bucket I’d spread a large nylon bag over.
Immediately my fears switched from “I’m going to be raped and murdered by these horrible people” to “I’m going to get shot by the god damn police.”
So the other day I had to run an errand at the INEC office in Maitama. I’ve never been there before but I’d heard..
Nigerian men are not going to stop marrying you if you openly admit to being a feminist. The only way they can continue benefiting from the atmosphere of fear surrounding the feminism of Nigerian women in Nigeria is if Nigerian women continue to trade away some of their rights in exchange for acceptance in our patriarchal society.
So on Saturday, I had to go to the Apple store to get my ipad looked at. It started malfunctioning a while ago with..
I didn’t say anything about the Dana crash that happened on Sunday because I had nothing to say. I was sitting in Salamander having..
Now that I think about it. Practically everyone in Nigeria is having sex for money. I don’t know about other countries, but from what I’ve seen of relationships in America from different ethnicities, while there’s an expectation of exchanging gifts and other such things, it is nowhere near as advanced and expensive as it is in Nigeria.
Right after the new year I suffered from major blogging fatigue. (Or more likely In spite of everything that went on in the past..
Who are the people in your neighbourhood? If you live in Nigeria, you probably run into all sorts of characters on a daily basis...
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Raw pain. I'm so sorry you went through all this.
Thanks for this collection! I knew some but some were a discovery. Dalu rinne :)
N choro nsogbu. See me see trouble is not an Igbo expression. The closest you can get is nekwanu nsogbu.
I'm a little late but thank you for this post. I also have a little question to ask. How do I use the word "nsogbu"? Like
Fantastic idea. For years I have worried about the use of Igbo language dwindling so much that it'll hardly be spoken at all in future. […]