Oyinkan Adebimpe

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AN IBADAN GIRL’S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION (3)

Hiya! I’ve got another exciting piece. I’ve got a postscript at the end of the story. Be sure to let me know what you think of it! SWIMMING LESSONS I am five years old and Mama dropped me off at the pool for my swimming lessons. I am surrounded by water and I sink deeper…

February 8, 2022
AN IBADAN GIRL’S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION (2)

Hi hi! I’m taking out the time to explore some more parts of horror fiction. In this story, I take a quick jab at the innate injustice of murder which is that nothing ever really can bring back the murdered. In addition, the lives of their families are permanently altered. To some it is some…

February 3, 2022
AN IBADAN GIRL’S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION

Hi there! I’ve got the next story in my flash fiction series. I had fun writing this story because it required me stepping into the mind of my younger self. For context, I read a lot of horror fiction as a child and in my teenage years. My favorite author for a long time was…

January 24, 2022
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Bouncing Back

Happy New Year 2022! I took a break from writing to focus on other things and I had no idea how much I had missed writing until I started again. Anyway, I am back and I am adding a nice twist to this space….Drumrolls…’tis fiction! Fear not, it is flash fiction but pretty enjoyable. Here…

January 19, 2022
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Being a Tech Bae (Part 2)

And so our story continues, the captivating tale of my foray into the world of technology. After the years of on-and-off attempts to learn Python, I have restarted learning programming. I am studying to become a front-end developer and my learning journey began with HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Having gained some level of mastery of…

June 12, 2021
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Tech Bae (Part 1)

Spoiler alert! This is a guide. I recently started learning to become a Tech Bae. For the past seven years, give or take, I have been trying to learn software development (unsuccessfully, if I might add, LOL). Everything changed a couple of months ago when someone gave me genius advice which changed the game for…

April 18, 2021
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Your Dreams

I think my generation is pretty focused on huge achievements and hitting goals. That is a pretty awesome thing to be focused on but I sometimes wonder if we tend to sacrifice longer-term, sustainable achievements on the altar of shiny, glossy, immediate rewards that kind of look like achievements. There has been an ongoing debate…

April 8, 2021
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Climate Action

Did you just scoff and murmur “Climate change is a myth”. Well, if you did, I am side-eyeing you right now. Climate change is real, it does exist and there really is no planet B. Ice caps melting in the Artic might seem pretty far away but rising sea levels in Lagos is not as…

March 29, 2021
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Love

The 20’s can be a weird period. For some people, it is that awkward time when they take those first, uncertain steps into adulthood and each step they take takes them further away from the cocoon of safety that was their teenage years. Love, I guess, is one of the many choices that comes with…

March 14, 2021
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Living

Lol, yes. Here’s a guide to living. Too often, I find myself waiting to live … simply existing and going through the motions in the present while I set my sights and all that is within me on the future that I envision for myself. I remember wondering, when I graduated from law school, where…

March 9, 2021