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“Congratulations, you got the job.” comes with its own brand of anxiety. That’s when imposter syndrome from your village people comes out to visit, asking questions like: “can you perform? how long before they discover that you are a fraud?” There are also other problems more work-related with a new 9-5, especially in Nigeria. So, […]
The guy in this story is a 19-year-old graphic designer who lives in the office where he’s employed because living at home is not an option. He left home at 17 after a clash with his stepfather. The day I raised my fist to defend myself from the insults and continuous abuse of my stepfather […]
The 22-year-old man we spoke to this week is an accomplished sales manger. Getting there wasn’t easy. Still, with his history of low self-esteem and agoraphobia, characterised by bouts of anxiety and panic attacks when speaking to people or speaking in public, he’s somehow managing to breakthrough and record milestones I grew up in a […]
The young woman we spoke to this week feels like she turned out okay, but she knows she could have been in a better place if she mentally prepared for some of the things that happened as she became an adult. My life as a child revolved around the church. My parents were ministers in […]
The people in your life are important as the decisions you make.
I’m one of those few people who can say, not so proudly, that in 2000, the year I was born, my parents didn’t exactly want me. The circumstances of my birth, as I’ve heard a few times, were weird. My parents were entering their forties at the turn of the Millennium. They had ticked all […]
Why do I need to plunge into adversity to prove a point? In a country where the reward for hard work is getting by?
As a child, I thought all adults were ballers. Then I learned about money.
“There are a lot of things you don’t realise about life and growing up when you’re a child”
I was born a farmer, not unlike the way Trevor Noah says he was born a crime.
My mother used to say, ‘Just you wait, my girl, women will run this world.’
“You know what’s even better than two heads? Three or four good heads thinking in the same direction.”
In certain cultures, adulting is marked with rituals, tests and celebrations. But when you’re Nigerian, adulting often comes at you without warning. Adulting comes in different forms; bills, family, responsibility, and you guessed it, a child. Everyone who’s crossed that bridge has a unique story. Stories that can help you see you’re not alone. That’s […]
“Is this it for you, is this all you’ll ever be?”, I always felt like everyone was asking me that question.
You see, when he was a child, he wanted to be everything. Then he became a father of two at the ripe old age of 21 and found out there are no manuals for this thing.
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