10-year-old Ade had always wanted to be a cook. One evening, while ravishing his mum’s delicious Semo and Egusi, he blurted out his long-held dream. Almost immediately, his dad put down his spoon. “Tufiakwa! Over my dead body,” he remarked. His mum, leaning from the doorway, added, “Ade, cooking is for girls. You cannot do […]
“Three sons, but you are the daughter I never had” My mother said to me in Idoma that evening after coming back home tired from work to meet the concoction rice I had surprisingly prepared. Although, the eleven-year-old me was already preparing a response to give if she asked “is that the kind of food
The title of this essay opens with a claim that, in a Nigerian’s worldview, might read like a fallacy. One may ask: by that question, do you seek to incite a prayer to God, or are you simply making a statement of how things ought to be? For it seems that in our world, our
Over the years, issues surrounding the boy-child and his development have not been given enough attention as required, thereby causing the areas essential for his growth to be treated with levity.
