I think I love my wife ? “Guys will cheatâ€. Quickly, the typical Yoruba-superstitious-religious-Nigerian in me kicks in with a resounding- “My own husband will not cheat; I reject it in Jesus Name†(Of course, I remember to include the finger snapping over the head movementâ€. My ‘enemy’ returns with a smirk and another- “Better […]
  Sometime in the eighties, our TVs ran a syndicated advert for Venus, an old brand in the Nigerian hair-relaxer market, featuring our own ex-Miss Nigeria, Nike Osinowo (is she still ‘Osinowo’, never quite understood marriage-to-another-woman’s-husband gossip), maybe you’ll remember-   “A- Wow, my hair could never be like that†(A stares ‘lustfully’ at a woman’s […]
Goriola’s Love Story … Series four(With ‘Funmilayo) I soon became impatient.And Someone knew too.It was the end of the semester and it was promising to be a long break since ASUU was threatening another strike.A few days after I was accosted for ‘anti-toasting’ offences, I saw the object of my affections in class. I walked past, […]
Goriola’s Love Story … Series three(With ‘Funmilayo) I steadied myself as I felt the world shift.  I couldn’t say anything. I just looked at Moyo, wishing her to disappear, wishing thirty-two seconds in reverse order, wondering what I did to make Moyo act this way. The only thing I was sure of was why […]
What on earth is everything coming to? Maybe it’s the public character of the telephone that makes it ‘accountable’ to give non-discriminatory information fairly. How come we allow corporate censorship to interfere with messages on racism, war, genocide etc but not abortion? Who called for discrimination when Verizon dropped Akon a few month ago? The […]
Goriola’s Love Story … Series two(With ‘Funmilayo) “Guy, wetin u dey look?†I knew I heard Gbenga, I knew he said something about me still looking but it took longer for my mind to process. “Now that’s what I’m talking about†I finally managed to utter. “No, wait, you mean………..aah no way, no road for […]
Goriola’s Love Story … Series One(With ‘Funmilayo) I’d always thought I was a cross between Einstein and Pele- you know, genius and consummate sportsman.My skin and hair almost convinced me (you never can tell with the African sun) that I really wasn’t Master Einstein. Then, since Pele never came to reclaim his long lost son, […]
I love love-stories. I may play cynical, laughing at the plot and lines while the screen moves from one sob to the next laugh but I love them. They give me some warm gooey-lovey-anything is possible feeling and I like that. It’s even better when you actually know someone who lives love story. This is […]
Giving yourself some credit? I had some pretty good news recently- I wrote an exam and I did ok. Quickly I rushed off the emails and texts, sharing my joy with my friends. The message wasn’t quite the archetypal Nigerian text/Email a la- “Come rejoice with me and my family’ etc but close. It went […]
Actually, the ‘toosh-er’ headline will be ‘cluck cluck’ or a birdie chirpy chirp but since I’m yet to see a chicken actually cluck cluck…. I didn’t do it! Yes I‘m chicken… all talk, no action, chicken, etc- I didn’t do it. The ‘no time’ excuses wont work- I had an extended weekend (oh, dear, I […]
Here’s the deal- I’ll also let you in on totally absurd stories Warning: ‘Absurdity is highly subjective.) Click here for something on a Nebraska state senator who filed an action against God. And here for God’s (?) defence. Poor Joke- bad taste. Credit goes to Diamondhawk for the link
I didn’t even know Saudi Women were not allowed to drive! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/middleeast/28drive.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin