My cousin Obi died yesterday. I knew he was gravely ill, but I suppose I thought the medical science necessary to support him through a normal lifespan was there and so I thought his life would just continue being an endless blur of hospitals and doctors and drugs.
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I’m so sad that Chester Bennington, who helped so many people around the world like me make it through the dark, couldn’t find that light for himself.
It’s weird. This blog has kept me company through some of the darkest times of my life, but I’ve never written about the love of my life here.
My childhood died all soaked in blood without even a box to be buried in. I used to say even though I’m twenty-three, I..
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Hello, I know this post is over ten years old, but I just read it and your rant post and I am awed. I completely […]
Growing up in my village school and seen how we were beaten for speaking igbo language to speck the igbo at old age
Yes it’s my dialect, but there is a very practical reason why I use it. Onicha Igbo is the most widely understood dialect due to historical
Is the Onicha Anambra dialect your dialect? If so that seems... a bit biased.
[…] I first learned to write Igbo in school, I have been infuriated with Samuel Ajayi Crowther,” she blogged in 2009. “The Roman system of writing was