A Year of Redefinition.(2024)Until last year, I always thought I was so sure I knew what love was.Feb 2A response icon12Feb 2A response icon12
Never Write Alone: Craft, Community and The Abebi AfroNonfiction InstituteIt is the last day of the residency and all of us — our amazing winners and notable entries — are seated in a lush garden eating bread and…Oct 18, 2024A response icon1Oct 18, 2024A response icon1
Twenty Five and a Half.Yesterday I crossed the halfway mark of my twenty-fifth year.Sep 30, 2024A response icon12Sep 30, 2024A response icon12
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…May 18, 2024A response icon16May 18, 2024A response icon16
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…Mar 28, 2024A response icon9Mar 28, 2024A response icon9
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…Feb 14, 2024A response icon9Feb 14, 2024A response icon9
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…Oct 1, 2023A response icon3Oct 1, 2023A response icon3
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…Jul 31, 2023A response icon14Jul 31, 2023A response icon14
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…Dec 31, 2022A response icon10Dec 31, 2022A response icon10
