Randomly considering tweaking this blog a little to make it more graphic, but a part of me does not want to. I like to keep this clean and minimalist. For pictures, quotes and other randoms, see http://adunola.tumblr.com/ Yesterday, I was leafing through my intelligent life magazine and I always love the ads, I like the attention to detail, for example [...]

“I should have known that ambition and success were not to be expected in an African woman. An African woman should be a good African woman whose qualities should be coyness, shyness, submissiveness, incompetence and crippling dependency. A highly educated independent African woman is bound to be dominant, aggressive, uncontrollable, a bad influence.”                 [...]

I used to be an optimist I used to believe that people could draw out the best in themselves I used to believe in humanity I believed in the utopia that can result from being good, kind, thoughtful and caring I believed that we all could make the world a better place I used to believe in organised religion But [...]

by Emilomo Ohiwerei Sometimes, the good we can do in our society are hidden until we simply attend a meeting, join a group and do something with other people. And then, eureka! We make a wonderful discovery and are motivated to do more. It happened to me recently through my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) experience and now, I have [...]

I saw the Best Exotic Hotel Marigold last weekend with a friend of mine, and if you can excuse the over-used stereotypes of India, it was a funny movie and the heavy duty cast of Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith etc definitely added to high expectations of delivery, and that it did. Afterwards, as one does, we went to [...]

…of all the bad things that can happen to a Nigerian motorist, from experience, I am positive that having it conk out on the road has to be the worst.

One case of a death from FGM and the fact that it is still prevalent calls for action against the perpetrators in the main but if the activity cannot be outlawed it must only be done under medical supervision.

We need to tackle an emergency that has our children live like dogs in the name of some higher but unconscionable goal.

Although I only speak one language, I am fluent in at least 3 accents. One of which can only be done in jest, behind closed doors. But I digress. The other two accents are to be taken more seriously for they disclose details of my life that people cannot gather from looking at me. Accent #1 is a special case [...]

I started off writing this article with the intention to share the link between the love I have for Nigeria and the one shared between couples of arranged marriages; love characterized by patience, tolerance and hope. But as things sometimes happen, I lost the write-up and my train of thought departed to another destination. Given that the original thought is [...]