My mum complains about how I speak, how I refer to people my age and those younger than me. I call myself a boy, even though at 31, I...

It’s so hot during the day now that every five minutes or so I find myself thinking of beer. The bubbles, the frosted glass, the bone...

I am not a goddess… Unless I say I am, was an exhibition put together by the Sabo Art Advisory, to celebrate Women’s History Month. The...

I saw him, my friend. He was standing on a chair. Vibing, swaying with the music. This was at a Lagos Nightclub in the great before, when...

I stayed up. There was work in the morning, but I stayed up. I had an event to get to. #OprahMeghanHarry. 2am to 4am WAT. A media legend,...

The other day on twitter, there was a conversation around the essence of a rice cooker. For some, it is technology that makes life...

Take two cups of water, add half a cup of sugar, a half spoon of salt, two and a half spoons of yeast. Pour three and a half cups of...

Nigeria’s a funny place. It isn’t Ha! Ha! Funny. It’s funny in this way. There’s a man. He’s walking towards a patch of ice. It’s really...

Bruce Onobrakpeya’s exhibition, Façade, at Art 21 is fantastic. It’s like a holiday, but instead going to the beaches of the Gambia or...

My name is Afam and I'm depressed. There I said it. Weight lifted. Yippee kai yay! That right there is a lie. There's no weight that's...

There’s a Nigerian artist so great, so good, so masterful, so… so many so-s, that it is a sin - an absolute travesty, that he is not more...

I remember what it feels like to be in love. The first time I felt the feeling most completely, I said in an email: “I have found someone...

One of the best things about social media is the access it gives us. We’re connected to everything and everyone, all at once. It’s a...

I wonder what he saw as he fell. Did he see the sky? Did he remember the things he loved in the world? Did he only see the pavement, the...

Love is a layered, complicated thing. Most relationships aren’t perfect, or healthy and most people aren’t good. Who knows why two people...

There’s a television show I used to watch. It’s called Shameless. It is about the very poor and altogether ridiculous dysfunctional...

Human creativity is a lovely thing. It’s why we read books, it’s why we watch films, it’s why we go to museums and art galleries. We do...

My hangovers are violently inconsistent. The lightheaded heavy-headed foggy feeling of head and brain accompanied by waves of nausea, a...

It’s always terrible when people, good or wicked, die young. If they were good, you think of all the light that they would have brought...

A Nigerian boy, Bolu Okupe came out as gay on instagram. He posted a picture of himself with the caption, “Yes. I’m gay AF.” AF here...