Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde

Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde is a New York based Nigerian artiste whose life revolves around her creative endeavors. She writes, performs spoken word to afro-beat folk music, tells stories visually either as a mixed media artist or a filmmaker. Her story didn't start out that way. She trained formally as a Scientist, earning a graduate degree, but found the flirtatious tango with her muse more appealing. A calling which led to her quitting her job with a major pharmaceutical company to follow her passion. She's an Award-winning published author (The Woman With a Past and Conversations With The Soul at 3:00AM) and holds a US design patent in Visual Art. Her other interests are: Reading, Interior Design, Traveling, Creative Cooking Medicine and the pursuit of a healthy holistic lifestyle. She also enjoys savoring the beauty of other cultures through their cuisine, music and art.

How To Find, Marry And Adapt Your Expectations Of What A Good African Wife Is

I don tire for all these my African brothers sef! Good African women abound. They are plentiful, and simply waiting to be taken. My friend Victor has convinced me.

“Some” African Men And Their Flawed Sense Of Leadership

I think Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala got what she deserved! I mean, how dare she attempt to make monumental strides and changes on the political-economic stage of a nation that has been ruled for so long by men who have pocketed the country in their private vaults?

Gender Roles in African Relationships

He told me an African woman is not worth visiting if she can't cook… yet he himself can't cook, and he wouldn't cook even if he could. His "shopping list" for a potential mate is one who will take care of him just as his mom took care of his dad, but one who is also financially independent...

Gender Roles in African Relationships

He told me an African woman is not worth visiting if she can't cook… yet he himself can't cook, and he wouldn't cook even if he could. His "shopping list" for a potential mate is one who will take care of him just as his mom took care of his dad, but one who is also financially independent...

Gender Roles in African Relationships

He told me an African woman is not worth visiting if she can't cook… yet he himself can't cook, and he wouldn't cook even if he could. His "shopping list" for a potential mate is one who will take care of him just as his mom took care of his dad, but one who is also financially independent...

Equality in African Relationships

Is there such a thing as a truly equal heterosexual African relationship? Equal share of power, responsibilities and spousal support? Do they exist?, and if so, what structures in our societies and in marriages do the individuals who chose to follow this path have to surmount?

Equality in African Relationships

Is there such a thing as a truly equal heterosexual African relationship? Equal share of power, responsibilities and spousal support? Do they exist?, and if so, what structures in our societies and in marriages do the individuals who chose to follow this path have to surmount?

African Mothers-In-Law And The Cycle Of Abuse

There are excellent mothers-in-law who will treat you like their own daughter, and there are those who even before meeting you have their gun barrels loaded. Too many African men are brought up not to be able to have adult conversations with their parents, so in the face of the battle of the in-laws, they duck for cover and throw the wife to the wolves...

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