EssaysPoetry March 31, 2025 Why Men are Monsters and Women are Saints Bimbo met her monster on Bumble.Tall, charming, read books,prayed with her every night,and in a year, they were picking venues.… Poetolu 0 Love0
EssaysPoetry March 28, 2025 A Poem to Comfort the Beautiful Woman Drowning in Male Attention We’ve heard how tiring it is— to drown in constant desire, framed as questions of ownership or geography. Fine girl,… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry March 4, 2025 Like a pickpocket Time moves like a pickpocket, light on its feet, swift with its hands, leaving nothing but the crumbs of what… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry February 22, 2025 The Secret Yesterday, Kunle came in, seething and sulking, as if someone died. We prodded, we taunted, but he wouldn’t tell us… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry July 1, 2023 The Woman on my Queue at the Lidl Checkout Till You did not see her waist, but I did It's the rareness of water in a vastness of sand as… Poetolu 0 Love0
Events July 21, 2022 Her Head was a Spider’s Nest – Book Launch/ Meet-and-Greet Event I'm grateful for everyone who showed up at the book launch for #Herheadwasaspidersnest, and also the meet-and-greet events in Lagos… Poetolu 1 Love0
Poetry October 21, 2021 The Demon of Truth Sometimes you want to punch a human in the face you want to punch them so hard bash their face… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry August 11, 2021 A Bar of Soap If a bar of soap could feel of what would it speak? to wake up each day feeling less than… Poetolu 0 Love0
Fiction May 12, 2021 You won’t believe this story, but I’ll tell you anyway You won't believe what I'm about to tell you, but I’ll tell you anyway. Last month had a few of… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry January 22, 2021 Dirty Water You must remember what it's like washing clothes in a huge basia*; you don't drink it, you don't reuse it… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry December 4, 2020 Finding Love In A Public Park The chirps of colourful birds fill the air you are strolling in a park, the sun is high high at… Poetolu 0 Love0
Poetry November 11, 2020 The Story Of Two Fools It’s a story of the one no one argues was a fool he had ten bags of gold and lost… Poetolu 4 Love0
Poetry September 29, 2020 An Open Letter To Adefemi Adefemi, you are tall, tall like an iroko strong like a baobab, rare like mahogany you carry your chest like… Poetolu 2 Love0
Poetry September 1, 2020 To The Choir Girl Who Sits At The Front Row Every Sunday Sunday morning, before the start of service you were standing at the foyer, (with your friend who talks too much)… Poetolu 6 Love0
Essays August 31, 2020 6 Things To Remember About People And Things I’ll tell you a story. While in university in Nigeria, very few students had cars, and there were mainly two… Poetolu 3 Love0
Poetry August 27, 2020 To Paint A Vivid Picture Of A Friend You Can’t Rely Upon Paper condoms, A damp matchbox, A temperamental shower in harmattan... Poetolu 3 Love0
Poetry August 18, 2020 Funny Men Cannot Be Trusted People who sleep naked cannot be trusted It's hard to decipher if they escape the heat or are laying down… Tolu Akinyemi 5 Love0
Fiction August 2, 2020 The Pervert “She’s going to slap me!” I said to myself, unsure of what defensive demeanour to assume. Do I wait for… Tolu Akinyemi 6 Love1
Essays July 19, 2020 How to Answer Questions in Conversations 1. " I don't know" is a refreshingly valid and perfectly acceptable answer to any question for which you don't… Tolu Akinyemi 1 Love0
Poetry July 16, 2020 The Reunion There are natural places old matesnot seen in years are destined to find you;like at concerts or airports, or red-handedat… Tolu Akinyemi 1 Love0
Events July 14, 2020 University of Ibadan, Nigeria- Alexander Brown Hall Book Club Interview I’m often tempted to believe talent doesn’t really exist. What we call talent is interest that was worked hard upon Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0
Poetry February 4, 2020 A Jar of Cookies You are at your desk at work and by your arm sits a jar of your favourite cookies. You reach… Tolu Akinyemi 2 Love0
Poetry December 21, 2019 The Strange Visitor At House Number 29 She’s at the window, mug in handa young man steps into viewon her side of the streetout of an Uber,… Tolu Akinyemi 4 Love0
Poetry November 24, 2019 Communal Tragedy The fire's last embers long died outand empty beds remain emptyempty yesterdayempty today and forever but who remembers? It is… Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0
Poetry September 14, 2019 A Note of Warning If you make me fall in love with you Please don’t say you were not warned For as I fall,… Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0