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Second Chances Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Last Impressions Count

“Mama! Mama!” Oby cried as I watched her jerk back and forth with Mama convulsing in her arms. My stepmother’s eyes finally closed and tears streamed down my face. Aged twelve, Oby was too young to be an orphan. Mama…

Precious AdeniyiDecember 27, 2019

Jailor Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Imprisioned

Recently, he was released from Kirikiri for a crime he didn't commit. He thought of going back to pay the Warder a visit, to show his appreciation for the kindness and good treatment he received. The years spent behind bars…

EnochOctober 8, 2019

Greener Pastures Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

A Farmer’s Bid

The rainy season is bound to come, enough of the long holidays for hoes, sickles and cutlasses. Last year was for wheat, this year will be for maize. He prayed that there won't be another lengthy August break. Eating maize…

Idowu Surprise EmmanuelSeptember 6, 2019

A Woman's Journey August Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

The Journey to Freedom

Today is the 23rd of August, exactly five years after a far more innocent version of me was snatched from the streets of Lagos. I've been counting because only me remembers. I think back on that day five years ago…

Onisemo EyinimofeAugust 23, 2019

July Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

A Libya Story

My name is lydia and i am a slave. Born in the slums of lagos but with the dreams of Europe. I placed my hopes far from home. A better life was all i wanted and greener pastures was all…

Lamina MichealJuly 13, 2019

June Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Roses of Agonies

My fifty eight years old mama recounts; when imperialism became her nuptials, headed by Lord Lugard. A mother of three noble offspring; Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo. She gained her free birth, after her white suitors ruptured her cultured hymen. This…

Idowu Victor IsaiahJune 6, 2019

May Contest May Contest Shortlist Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Pink Is Not So Colourful

It was just yesterday, I watched Okey (the barber) shave off the colourful wool my mother had used to decorate my hair. The teachers didn’t like the colours on my hair. The principal advised that I use a neutral colour…

GinikaMay 7, 2019

April Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Eye See

I once loved a man as a young girl loves. "Do you love me too?" I asked. "Yes, but your skin is too dark" he said. So I got myself, "white and lovely", and with skin as fair as the…

Victoria OkohApril 4, 2019

March Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

It wasn't cheating, not if it happened only once. Ochanya assured herself as she gazed at the door that would change her life forever. She wasn't in a loveless marriage, Ogaga loved her and would never suspect her. She just…

Bibi OkoMarch 18, 2019

February Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Halima

I looked at her and wondered why everybody liked her. It all started when Uwa's belly started getting bigger. Baba and Uwa said I'd have a baby sister. I was happy. After her birth, Baba and Uwa were delighted. They…

Augustine MalizuFebruary 18, 2019

January Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

Owuwe

The seventh Angel blew his trumpet. It started with peals of thunder that made Abiama quiver. Owuwe, the harvesting of souls had come. The gods had struck. And it began to rain. But the rains weren’t droplets of water. They…

Emeka OdogwuJanuary 15, 2019

December Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

One Chance!

I innocently followed him to the place. Everywhere was littered with brown paper. He touched a little liquid onto a piece of paper and it morphed into a N500 note. Árà rè!He promised to give me part of the money…

Fagunleka Toluwanimi IfeoluwaDecember 13, 2018

November Contest Winning Posts (Highest Votes)

ADA

Mama warned me, 'he's too perfect to be true Ada,' but I didn't listen. I still believed in fairy-tales back then. I thought I had found my "prince-charming" but soon saw how foolish I was! Barely a month after our…

OfficialbiolaNovember 9, 2018

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