Girl make I show you my bank account You must chop my money! I get money pass your papa Patriarchy and patriarchal people uphold the idea of using money or any other resources to entice women and make women flock around them. Yet when the women in question say “Okay, give […]
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Priscilla Ojo Mbakala is the new Annie in the making; the poster child for the only choices patriarchy allows women to make while constantly lying and giving women the illusions that it’s our choices to make and not mandatory societal rules for us to follow. With all my heart, I only wish she does
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Once upon a time when dreams still lived, She walked on air, bathed with the sky And sang with the bird Saying the sky is blue And she knew where to place her shoe. But now, the drums from the party told her it was time And even when she loved the night All with
For one who eats little pepper, I have known men hot- burning and spicy. Femi taught me a woman’s skirt need not be long, only short enough to be interesting. Emmanuel said to tour the world was to know Sola, Madeley, Fatima, Ngozi, Aniké. And Ola showed me how a lady’s legs
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Alone, A Low-Key Umbilical Wound Owe I entered the hush where ancestors spoke in fractured echoes, wrapped in colonial smoke. My name bore the weight of rivers split half saltwater, half sacred spit. The wound is round, small, unseen a soft red knot between spirit and skin. They said I was born of
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