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 1 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 1 Love0
Poetry December 21, 2019 House Number 29 She's at the cafe window, mug in handa young man steps into her viewout of an Uber, now sliding away.… Tolu Akinyemi 2 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
Essays April 30, 2019 Is Marriage and Raising a Family An Achievement? Some people say marriage is nothing to aspire towards, as it's not an achievement. But is this true? Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0
Essays April 4, 2019 If You are Accused of Not Cleaning Your Bum… "If publicly accused of having a dirty bum, do nothing!" -Yoruba Proverb Having such an accusation thrown at you… Tolu Akinyemi 1 Love0
Poetry April 4, 2018 Her Head Was A Spider’s Nest Every night as she struggled to sleep a spider crept in through her ears and laid eggs in her head.… Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0
Events November 12, 2017 Book ‘n’ Gauge Event : Book 'n' Gauge 2.0 ; An Evening with Tolu Akinyemi and Seun Lari-Williams Venue: Herbet Macaulay Library, Herbert… Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love1
Fiction February 20, 2017 A Man Who Cooks That Monday morning, I did not wake up in a hurry. I did not run into the shower. I did… Tolu Akinyemi 3 Love0
Poetry February 16, 2017 The True Nigerian Early in the morning a true Nigerian meets a friend and like a game of ping-pong they play with greetings.… Tolu Akinyemi 3 Love0
Poetry November 5, 2016 We Built Our Love Like A Shelter We built our love like a shelter you cut trees, I drew water you laid bricks, I made mortar we… Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0
Events August 4, 2016 Stephen Lawrence Seminar http://www.stephenlawrence.org.uk/category/tag/seminar/ Tolu Akinyemi 0 Love0
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