Retro song review: Tope Alabi’s Mori’yanu is something of a wonder
I was just going about regular chores today when this song won’t stop ringing in my mind. I gave the lyrics a closer inspection for about the first time since I’ve known the song. What did I find? Tope Alabi’s Mori’yanu has such lyrical depth that I can’t believeContinue Reading
Short film reviews: Love is a Star is worth every second of your twelve minutes
It’s a beautiful thing when a movie has a sound plot and good message going for it. But it’s even more beautiful when the story and the message are not sitting apart like oil and water, when the message doesn’t come off as imposed on the story, when it simplyContinue Reading
Review: Three things The Train will do to you
The Train, Mount Zion’s latest movie, is a biopic based on the life of Mike Bamiloye. In seven chapters and close to three hours, the story of Mike Bamiloye is told from his childhood right into the early phase of his ministry. We follow his story from Ilesa to LagosContinue Reading
Goodness and Mirrors
One of the cruelest jokes nature has on us is imparting on us a beauty that is apparent to all eyes except ours. Maybe the joke is not from nature, Maybe the joke is from our eyes Or the mirror we look into. Yes, it’s the mirror. Right from myContinue Reading
OF LOVE, SWINGS AND MUSHY PLACES
Lately I’ve barely had time to write a short story, right now I’m grappling with final year project and all the serenren that comes with try to clinch a Bsc. However, I’ve been getting smatterings of inspiration here and there and I’ve decided to string them together intoContinue Reading
MOIN-MOIN LOVE
Olamide plunked on the couch and exhaled. “Chai! It’s been so long since I came here o. How is your life now?” Deborah blew air on her freshly painted nails before she responded. “Ola, my life is like good moin-moin: sweet but messy” “What? How didContinue Reading
SINGLE PRINGLE STRUGGLE
Moshud had just left his workspace and he sincerely wished he hadn’t. He wanted him to linger at his table, perched by the edge, cracking silly jokes. But admitting the fact is the last thing Adameji Gabriel will do. He knew for certain that if he asked Moshud toContinue Reading
STORY BERRY XIII- ASAKE: The Witch
Asake half sat, half sprawled herself on her *agban’tara which was in front of her house. Her house: one of the few in the village with a corrugated iron roof. Usually whenever she observed the village while lounging on her inherited agban’tara, she would feel a sweeping sense of pride,Continue Reading
CONSTANT
In the first JAMB I wrote -I’ve written three in one lifetime, it’s safe to say I was their regular customer for a while. But that’s gist for another day- so I was saying about the first JAMB I wrote, among the physics questions there were about three onContinue Reading
BREAK THAT HEART BABY
By: Jedidah Adagbagyilo Ehn?! Calm dan, let’s walk together, and see a few things. Many times, we are unable to do certain things because our ‘stakeholders’ do not approve. By stakeholders, I mean family, friends and even acquaintances. It does not matter if there’s a gentle tug on your heart,Continue Reading