The first Oluchi I knew was a runny-nose crybaby in Primary One, the first Ernest a fair-skinned math teacher with huge nostrils who grinned as he strolled around you when you got a question wrong, before applying a cane to your unsuspecting back.
My first Ifeoma was a cheery, brilliant girl in my class who always [...]

My cellphone rang loudly, rousing me from the uneasy sleep I had just drifted into. I reached for it, with half a mind not to answer if it was my elder brother, ‘Chief.’ It was.
Courtesy, and the knowledge that I seldom called him, won out. I flipped the phone open.
“Hello?”
“Hello! Azuka, this is Chi!” I [...]

In what way is an operating system like a government?

It seldom functions correctly…

Enough said. I’m back.

This meme actually took me by surprise because I had it sitting in the ‘posts saved as drafts for a rainy day’ on my blog for a long time. They used to be 16 but I’ve trimmed them down in keeping with the title.

Nobody’s ever seen me shave. I just turn up clean-shaven. I read [...]

Noun
gourmand (plural gourmands)

a person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink. A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton.

I’ve been gaining a lot of weight in the past few months and I was beginning to wonder if it had anything to do with my drinking hot chocolate and eating bread in the middle [...]

For most women, the choice between sex and a new wardrobe is simple — they go for the clothes.
Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new [...]