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I take a look over my shoulder, as I get older.
My birthday is in two days. ‘Happy Birthday!’ you say. Well, in the words of Warren G, you don’t see what I see. I’ve managed to shock quite a few people with my age in the last two months – the most...
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Are you out there? It’s Chikodili. Again.
Hello Universe?! Can you hear me? I have spent all my years on earth believing. I was Mulder and I was Scully. And before that I waited patiently for Voltron to arrive, falling asleep each time, only...
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Te Deum laudamus, te Dominum confitemur…
I think I was already in my twenties before it occurred to me that people in this country – the UK – and the rest of the civilised world do not mix science and religion. In Nigeria, primary school saw...
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My present from Hubs.
I thought about whether to share this for a long, hard while because I think I like to keep such things to myself, mostly. In the end I decided that as a writer, it would be a shame to let it go to...
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Sex Me Bad: Nollywood and ‘the Fairer Sex’.
Sex Me Bad by Violet Omojan Okokor Forget the godawful title trying to be all Color Me Badd ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’, I think this book could make for interesting reading. As someone who pulls her hair out...
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Igbo language featured on ‘The Wright Way’.
I’ve never seen this show before. It’s supposed to be about a local council, I think? Anyway, the sign above is meant to warn about a trip hazard. It reads: ‘To watch out for your journey (trip) being...
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Ije Enu: Wartime and the music of Celestine Ukwu.
“Eeeeeeee! Bebi m eeeee!” The woman screamed. The veins in her neck were knots of rope squeezing the scream from her throat. On cue, my sisters and I burst out laughing. “Rewind it again!” we cried....
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Nollywood here I come! (Ish)
Tomorrow I am at Raindance Film Training in London, doing an Intro to Screenwriting course and I am totes excited/nervous/apprehensive/thinkingofnotgoingbecauseIamacoward/thrilled. I decided to do...
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Blame it on my chi.
Ndewo nu, Igbo ndi oma n’agu akara edemede m n’aka ugbu a. Kedu ka unu mere? And good day to all you non-Igbo readers as well! This post is about Flavour N’abania so if you’re tired of hearing me talk...
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Flash Fridays: ‘Lunch Date’
I found this in my drafts folder dated October 2012. I’m not sure why I didn’t publish it. I am also aware that today is not Friday, but what the hey. **** Wole wiped his mouth with the serviette that...
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Ada Ada
I am not sure why Hubs sent me this video but apparently according to him it is ‘not about Flavour. Just watch it’. So I did. I am still not sure what to think.
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OMC (Oh My Chineke).
Today, a rather unusual thing happened to me. This thing has not happened since…since…I cannot remember since when. Maybe since I was pregnant over two years ago. I fell asleep in the afternoon. Now a...
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White Jesus, brown Mami Wata
I remember how betrayed I was when I found out that Jesus might not have looked like he did in the popular ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ film. He did not have piercing blue eyes. He did not have blonde hair. In...
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Blessed and highly Flavoured!
So here I was minding my business, writing and whatnot when a message pings PING! in my mailbox. I open it to find a strange name, someone I do not know: Kedu Everyone According to the Cokobar...
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The Asaba Massacres: Nigerian-Biafran War
I just found this very educative and enlightening video via Ikhide’s blog. As he says, ‘watch and weep’.
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Beasts of every land and clime.
Human beings are the same everywhere. Whenever an aunt or uncle or cousin visits the UK for the first time and marvels at how clean and orderly everything is compared to Nigeria, I laugh to myself. The...
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Dear Njideka
Dear Njideka, How are you? I trust you are fine. I have long grappled with the consequences of the action I am about to take but I have decided that on my own head be it. If music be the food of love,...
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Dear Njideka (2)
Dear Njideka, I want to let you know that ever since our discussion yesterday, I feel that my love for you is growing stronger and stronger. I am so proud of your home training. If you had answered me...
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Dear Njideka (3)
Ah-ah, now. Why are you doing me like this? Hopelessly yours, Hopewell Okoronta.
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