Originally on bellanaija (http://www.bellanaija.com/2013/05/22/what-happens-on-twitter-stays-on-twitter-right/) Twitter is the most remarkable invention, for never before has there been a more efficient thought catalogue. Journal and diary pages, are so long and empty that they appear daunting,...

As I write this I cannot believe that I am writing it. I am so shocked that I, Afam, who should have known better, have found myself buggered by Vodafone yet again. It feels like they just bent me over and unleashed a brutal onslaught of such flurried spanking that my arse shall never be quite right....

There are days when the mini sun that you normally carry within your heart that's responsible for beaming truly stupendous and stupefying levels of felicity and gaiety on the unsuspecting public dies. There are days when it feels like the heaven themselves are closed to you; days when whatever life...

You may consider it a curse that the bulk of us will not suffer from amnesia. As a result, nothing we see will ever be unseen and nothing we hear can never be unheard. We may forget for days, or minutes or seconds, but the memories remain, lurking in the shadows.  I've found people to be evasive....

So let's talk about Abercrombie and Fitch. Last week, comments made by the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch, Mike Jeffries, in an interview by Benoit Dezinet for the Salon magazine in 2006 went viral.  “In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,...

On the 9th of May, I wrote an article, a piece, a something on Kakadu The Musical (here). Because I cannot attend, I cannot comment about the quality of the play. I can however tell you what others thought about it. This is what the tweeps that saw it had to say about it. This shit is actually really...

I apologise for my lengthy absence but I was struck by the most unfortunate affliction. Yes, I have been quite ill. The writing of my dissertation left me in such a state of fatigue that I was incapable of performing any function without first thinking about my sleep debt. Sleep debt is the worst sort...

A couple of days ago, I wrote this: Lessons From Afam: death to monotony. It was a response to this: Where does one go to do something anymore? by a guy I like to call the poetry writing yam. It isn't that his name has anything to do with yams, it's just that I think "the poetry writing...

Originally, on Bella Naija (http://www.bellanaija.com/2013/04/19/dip-dive-coast-swimming-is-an-essential-skill-for-survival/) but also by me. It is a slightly different version. Last month Eniola Abiola, a student of Dentistry at the UNILAG Medical school drowned at Elegushi beach in Lagos. Even...

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