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At age seven, when it was confirmed that her right hand could reach across her head and touch her left ear,
What a way to express a child growing
“I think a child should be named for his destiny so that whenever he hears his name, he has an idea of the sort of future that is expected of him. Not according to the circumstances of his birth. The past is constraining but the future has no limits.”
“Augustina,” he said feverishly, “our children are going to be great. They’re going to have the best education. They’re going to be engineers and doctors and lawyers and scientists. They’re going to have English names and they’re going to speak English like the queen. And from now on, stop calling me Engineer. Call me Paulinus.”
This nigga scaring me !!!! HELP !
Although his position on the family tree could not be described in anything less than seven sentences, Odinkemmelu was introduced to us as our cousin.
REAL. #lol
It must be true what somebody once remarked, that shy men and ugly women have the hardest time of all in this world.
So many gems in this book already… cause WHAT 😭
Disgraceful that a twenty-five-year-old was still depending on his parents, but she smiled and looked tremendously pleased when I took the notes. Right there and then, I decided that the first thing I would do when I got a job was to buy my mother a brand-new car.
He just like me fr
Suddenly, I wanted to lick her skin.
A real #lover mhmm
I looked at her protruding belly, which was positioned threateningly close to my face, and struggled with the urge to ask her why she did not simply dip into her carrier bag and extract a potty?
LMAOOOO
we must never make permanent decisions based on temporary circumstances.
The only factor hindering Aunty Dimma’s complete metamorphosis from liberated woman to full-fledged man was that she had not yet grown a beard.
My ICON !
Next to Onitsha, Aba was the hometown of jungle justice. The people of Aba did not want to depend on their government for everything. They had taken the nobleman’s advice literally and asked themselves what they could do for their government instead of what their government could do for them. They had chosen to assist her with the execution of justice.
Lmaooooooooo
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a man who loved the sound of his own voice.
This author is actually mad funny dawg 😭😭
The grammatical errors stood up from the page and punched me right in the middle of my face.
LMAOOOO
“Kings, they’ve fixed the date for our matriculation. It’s on the twenty-ninth of November. Are you going to be in the country on that day?” I smiled. My sister probably added that last part to let the keen eavesdroppers know that she had a brother who could afford to travel abroad.
She’s sooo real lmaooo
No, this country was not fucked up. It was also not a place for idealizing and auld lang syne. Once you faced the harsh facts and learned to adapt, Nigeria became the most beautiful place in the world.
Dear Ola. She seemed to hold some magical power over me. She could take over the steering wheel of my life anytime she pleased, drive me in whatever direction she chose, and then abandon me to navigate from there.
I NEED ME A SIMP LIKE THIS !!
G ood mothers know all about patience. They know about lugging the promise of a baby around for nine whole months, about the effort of pushing and puffing until a head pops; they know about being pinned to a spot, wincing as gums make contact with sore nipples; they know about keeping vigil over a cot all night, praying that the doctor’s medicine will work; they know that even when patience seems to be at an end, more is required. Always more. That is why Augustina could hardly believe that the day had finally come.
