The abridged account of how Mustapha Audu, with his friends and brothers, raped, abused, and tormented me, and almost destroyed my life.
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Instead of going away, she broke into an angry whine.
“Why can’t you take it? I am inviting you to my church! Even if you don’t want to come, you don’t have to reject my church flier”
Seriously? Is this girl for real?
I usually don’t hop on bandwagons but I think my manicure at The Nail Bar back in October reminded me of how much I..
Last month, I was lucky enough to be invited to review The Nail Bar by its gorgeous and gracious owner, Ameerah Abraham. To say..
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 sometime this morning / last night, I started seeing tweets saying there’d been a bomb close to Krystal Lounge in Wuse 2 and..
I keep wondering what went wrong? What went wrong? What happened????
I don’t know.
But my sweet, intelligent, funny friend isn’t coming back to Salamander.
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.
Today I will burn all things that remind me of him. Today I will purge myself of him. Today I will choose to forget..
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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. […]