An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Fireworks
Hola! I’m back with a new story. I had originally written this story sometime in 2020, right before Nigeria’s Independence Day celebrations. I never got round to publishing it then but here you go! FIREWORKS I love fireworks. I love the way they light up the sky like it’s the 1st of October. The bright,Continue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Fireworks”
An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Blooming
Hiya! This is a simple, sweet story of blooming written with Spring in mind. It’s a new year (technically, lol) and there’s always time to start again. Take a chance on yourself! RED BLOSSOMS It rained cats and dogs that Winter night. I remember because each raindrop felt like a mocking pelt of ice slammingContinue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Blooming”
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 deeperContinue reading “AN IBADAN GIRL’S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION (3)”
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 someContinue reading “AN IBADAN GIRL’S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION (2)”
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 wasContinue reading “AN IBADAN GIRL’S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION”
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. HereContinue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Bouncing Back”
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 ofContinue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Being a Tech Bae (Part 2)”
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 forContinue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Tech Bae (Part 1)”
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 debateContinue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Your Dreams”
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 asContinue reading “An Ibadan Girl’s Guide to Climate Action”
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