When I picked up her call, she was already angry. The things her husband had done had really infuriated her. It was not even the first time. He had promised that it would not happen again. After her narration, she said, “Let me confess, I slapped him because I knew [...]
Read MoreQuite some things began to happen after my mum lost her sight in 1998, but one thing that did not happen was the burial of her dreams or vision. Her last artwork before she lost her sight was a cardboard cuts of a dancing woman pasted on board with these [...]
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Rats can be very naughty. We started seeing “one rat” in our house. We initially ignored it and made plans to kill it. One day, we saw two different ones, and we concluded that the rats may not be more than three or four inside the house. We made an assumption. By the time we began to engage actively, we […]
One afternoon, Irewamiri and I drove to a restaurant to pick up a meal for the entire family. It was an order in diversity- it had different kinds of meals. We picked up the girls and returned home. When we opened up the package, we realized that our order was incomplete. Some of the fish we paid for were not […]
I had a doctor who also doubled as a father. One of those days, I was ill and he knew that I would rather take injections for days than swallow one pill. One of those days, he saw that I was struggling even with receiving the injection from the nurse in the treatment room. My dad was there trying to […]
In September 2006, while praying in the sports complex at Obafemi Awolowo University, the Lord reminded me of an earlier instruction he had given in March. It was to gather young people under the same atmosphere of word and worship led by young people like them. I began to make moves to obey. As we stepped into Eruwa the night […]
As children, we hated the hospital. Personally, I hated the sight of needles and medicine. Once I sighted the medicine, there were times I would vomit. It nauseated me. But my elder sister had an interesting way of hiding her sickness- she covers with up with excitement. She becomes very active. She wants to take on tasks that she has […]
There was a day I came back from a trip and met a beautiful gist. Irewamiri was having a conversation about the boarding house with a guest while the girls were also there. They discussed it generally- its advantages and the challenges. As they shared, my daughter told Irewamiri, “Mummy, how long will I stay with you, that you are […]
I used to be quite lazy as a young boy. At a point, I made up my mind to change. One day, after I had cleared the portion of daily tasks at home, I sat in the living room and watched the television. One of my mum’s staff strolled in and said, “Lazy boy watching TV”. I was offended. Well! […]
Years ago, there was a beloved young one who did not know what it meant to be satisfied. She would eat as much as she could. You would see clearly that her stomach is full, but she was indulging heavily. The parents even laughed over it at times. They believed they had a child who ate well. They said, “She […]
A beloved one said, “My dad never hugged me all his life, not even once, and he did not tell me ‘I love you’ till he passed. It was the other way for us- We ran out when we heard the sound of Daddy’s car. It’s a joyful moment. I know families for whom the sound of Daddy’s arrival was […]
I had to represent my Dad at an event a couple of years ago. When it was time to speak, I was asked to speak on his behalf. One of those in the meeting said, “You have spoken exactly how your Dad would have said it”. When I returned to give Dad an update, he said to me, “Son, you […]
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