Mofiyinfoluwa O.Things like spirit. Things like soul. Things like trees.Every time I go back home to Lagos, I am confronted by the unrelenting force that is change. I see it in the way my father’s steps are a…8 min read·May 18, 2024--10--10
Mofiyinfoluwa O.M25: Victorious Even Before BattleThere is a rocking chair in my house — it’s made of the most beautiful deep green floral pattern woven with pink and purple flowers, its…5 min read·Mar 28, 2024--8--8
Mofiyinfoluwa O.Love and Other Drugs and All The Endless Possibilities.We all feel it, that longing deep within our hearts to be seen, to be held, to be understood. We yearn for our hands to be held, to share…5 min read·Feb 14, 2024--9--9
Mofiyinfoluwa O.The Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction.The Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction exists to shine a much-needed light on nonfiction from Africa, in the form of personal narratives…5 min read·Oct 1, 2023--3--3
Mofiyinfoluwa O.An Unusual Grief and The Power of Seeing.I am high up in the sky, in pitch darkness somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean when I finish reading Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief. My…9 min read·Jul 31, 2023--15--15
Mofiyinfoluwa O.Revisitations (2022)I found it incredibly difficult to write about this year. Which should not surprise me because this has been a year of difficult things, of…·8 min read·Dec 31, 2022--12--12
Mofiyinfoluwa O.Vulnerare — to woundI did not wake up well this morning.·8 min read·Sep 11, 2022--9--9
Mofiyinfoluwa O.A Room of Her Own: A Month at the Library of Africa and The African Diaspora‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write’ — Virginia Woolf·6 min read·Apr 29, 2022--3--3
Mofiyinfoluwa O.If There is A Seed in Your Palm.It’s a full moon tonight and I am in an exquisite mood. I was driving back from Ahu’s when a group of clouds moved and gave may for the…·6 min read·Mar 18, 2022--8--8