Edosewele's script
perhaps to write is about writing
recent posts
about
Category: Uncategorized
-
“You do not own the person or thing that you love?” How can I understand this, and what does it even mean? When you love someone, is it to say that, despite their flaws, you still do? Or that your love cannot change? Which ownership does it refer to—our souls, or the physicality of our…
-
I didn’t understand the enthusiasm about Chimamanda. Everybody talked about her like she had saved West Africa. A savior of west Africa, Nigeria even so, she was nearly a demigod. I didn’t understand these worshippers, because to worship was to serve this god but this god of fiction I didn’t know or understand. I had read her book Half of a Yellow Sun in secondary school, and thought it was impactful, but that was it, no other impressions. I began re-reading recently, when My brother, My…
-
According to the dictionary or shall I say “Google”, Feminism is defined as the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes, it is also the belief that women deserve equal, social ,economic and political rights and Freedoms. Before I understood the word Feminism, I hated that some Men at my college institute thought I couldn’t carry my technical drawing board, perhaps it was because I was a lady and as I thought so,…
-
I was jealous of Mether, the man whose legs were almost crushed by a 2000 pound pipe yesterday. I was jealous not of his pain, but of his stillness. I craved the hospital bed he lay in because it was easier than doing life. Easier than participating. Life is not a race you can opt out of. There…
-
Dear Diary Diarrhea, short for DD, No particular reason for that name, for this is my journal, and I call the shots. ’Tis I, Vanessa… longest of years, DD, since we last spoke, and I feel terrible already that we haven’t spoken at all in a while. I feel guilty, but we cannot dwell on…
-
Life had become a Teacher who made forceful requests of a “ fill in the blank space” assignment ,and she was expected to submit hers, because, time was up, But it didn’t mean anything that she was not done yet, because no matter how many times she told the teacher that she needed to finish,…
-
I had a friend named Chad, ask about a Country called Chad. He said he had heard that the people who lived in Chad were poor, and that it was close to Nigeria, and he wanted to know If I knew anything about it. In the split seconds I had before I replied to him,…
-
It is with ease, you criticizeSo well, you seem to be the originator of the solution.Because where you stand is void of retribution and conflictYou peel and speak with confidence.You do not speak of a position you obtained,But one from a place of comfortYour loins are not soiled with guilt and pain,And hidden struggles, so…
-
It was the authenticity of your voice that bothered me. The certainty you exuded. In obvious ways that made you seem, perhaps Indestructible? It grew my fears as you chatted away. And rather than being imbued with faith and strength I become afraid, I tremble in fear. Because in waking nights, Perfect doesn’t seem close…
-
I met a Korean man today at my workplace. He was Korean because of his English accent and his eyes. His eyes were slightly oval with a curve at the top left and a curve at the bottom right, seemingly soulful, cautious, and warm. I felt an overwhelming familiarity course through my heart as I…
Edosewele's script 