One day, late January, I came home and noticed my front door was unlocked. Another day, mid-February, I came home from work and noticed my back door was unlocked. A …
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Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion. Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and …
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Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion. Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and …
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Sometimes I lose myself in the uncertainty of my place in the world. What set of traditions and customs in particular make me who I am? If I abandon those …
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I feel a little sorry for people in their 20s because no one will tell them that early adulthood can be just as tumultuous as teen years. Only this time, …
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Twice a week for three freaking hours, I had to sit in a room and look into the faces of people just like me – except they were not me. …
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On this particular day I was perfecting my multitasking skills – channel surfing, web surfing and chatting on the phone with Johnny. Some of you might remember him from One …
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“Remember Nkechi’s wedding? You know how skinny and tall she is, right? Well against all reason, she wore a body-hugging dress. Nice dress, but she looked like a rake. I …
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I want you all to think -seriously- the last time you did it, how much time did you put into foreplay. Did you tease your significant other with come hither …
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When you live among people that have not had a lot of exposure to black people, you start to notice things you normally would not notice in a bigger city. …
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Abstain from praying for me. From your track record, God is getting the wrong messages and you might screw mine up too…
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On my first day back home in Nigeria, I kept my emotions in check as I hugged my father. He had lost weight and most of his bulk. It was …
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I was working in a nursing home when a male nurse, also a fellow Igbo, displayed understandable excitement at meeting another Igbo on the job. He proceeded to playfully hug …
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So there I was with several pills and two bottles of wine and a six-pack Heineken in my system when the cops showed up at my door and told me …
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When the opportunity came for Hafsat to live in a foreign country back in 1998, it was seen as blessing. Now, Hafsat has come to realize the move she made to …
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“Look, ten years from now, when you have the house with a white picket fence, 2.5 kids, a mortgage and a dog, you will both be different. She may be …
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