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The Gods are not to Blame...: The Gods are not to Blame
Ola Rotimi
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My Best Nigerian book is Ola Rotimi's The Gods are not to Blame . It's a classic that most literature student can not escape. The play strongly drives African belief in destiny an...1 view(s)
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A kid's prayer: As i face another day,
Watch over me Lord when i play,
Help me not to cry when i fall.
Instill in me your sweetest love.
Fill my heart with your truth.
As i'll soon ...145 comment(s)
OH! PASTOR: ... Oh! Pastor ... REPENT!!! before its too late!
This poetry shows the deteriorating state of our religious leaders ... so help us GOD!...102 comment(s)
FIRST KISS: THE LOOK
The first time he kissed her it was from across the office.
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Captain von 'Clap' Trapp: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of some ages, good day.
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After several twitches, just when I had gotten a comfort spot on the front seat of the keke Marwa, he leapt suddenly in front of it, threatening to hit its windscreen with his side-handled baton.
‘’Park! Park! ’’, he yelled, gesticulating with so much [...]
Fifteen-year-old Tunde Adeniyi had always heard of people window-shopping, but he never thought he would ever be doing it. Why should he? After all, his parents were rich and he usually got what he wanted, as long as he wasn’t greedy. But here they [...]
From this entry, I want to establish if the dialogue moved the plot forward, please if you spot any unnecessary dialogue, kindly point it out. Thanking you all in anticipation.
After the act guilt moved in with me, there was no breathing [...]
On the few occasions I have been privileged to attend a Nigerian-Caribbean wedding, I have always been fascinated by the similarities in culture, the colour of the occasion and the beauty of the people. But never did I imagine that one day it would [...]
In five long minutes, I had a glimpse of what it was like to be the chairman of the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as the voice on the other line threw me into a web of confusion.
A harmless phone call was all posterity used to keep me alive. Without that fated call, I’d either be six feet under the ground, if the grave digger wasn’t drunk beyond his analytical limit; or on the highway to the great beyond, if my [...]
The saying goes, ‘It is not how many times a man falls that count but how many times he rises again after falling’. How true? I have heard these lines over and over again, especially in church, as most of us tend to console [...]
Mary was in a cab, going back from Joseph’s carpentry shop. The visit had been cut short because of her vomiting. Over the past few days, she had begun experiencing feverish feelings and vomiting; especially in the mornings. She had not told Joseph, [...]
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What exactly is a syndrome? Could someone help me please? English language gurus, where y’all at? I don’t have a dictionary handy but I know what it means in my head. lol. Better [...]
It all happened one cold evening; the evening breeze came through the window, lifting the window blinds half way up. The autumn leaves below rustled loudly. I could feel the cold on my skin, there was goose bumps all over. I really wanted [...]
Coo-coo-coo-coooo! Crew the big brown cock, beckoning on humans to leave the comfort of their beds. Soon, the henhouse-generated melody resounded from rooftop to treetop. Father Okoye, now wide awake, marveled at nature’s choir and orchestra. And to think that frogs had croaked him [...]
Someone pointed to a car that looked exactly like Tabatha’s. It was parked about sixty metres from the spot I thought I had seen the house. Everyone ran to the car, except me. I couldn’t bring myself to move, I was rooted to the [...]
