Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D

(Social Development Researcher/African/Igbo/Woman/Literary-Aficionado/Humanist) Explores linkage Btwn International Development Issues&Literary fiction

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'If the instructions of Life were written in our ancestral languages, our next generation would be doomed. It will take a few years, but even our bigger languages are heading for extinction with a psychedelic accent.’

My review: The Extinction of Menai
https://t.co/2ycAcEZwrv

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'When people sense time is more limited, they tend to prioritize “emotionally meaningful goals” over exploration.
That can mean fewer friendships, but deeper ones, and it also means the loss of a one-sided friendship...'

https://t.co/qZMf936xJ9

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

Joy can be quiet...

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

@Dianaspeak I agree that his markers for real love might not fit all people. I doubt not unreasonable, but he might just not know better. Thanks for commenting. 🌼 🙏

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'You can tell when someone loves you&when someone has decided to love you. It’s in the pause before they say it back.The way they turn their cheek slightly when you go for the lips.The thing about knowing you’re not loved is that it makes you work harder.'
https://t.co/Iw61nB0KHF

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

Some losses don't make sense.
They just change you...
albeit set you free...

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'I didn't consider myself a feminist, because the men in my life are suffering the same kinds of oppression as I was.' ~B. Reid RIP

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

Made perfect in weakness,

A strength that comes through surrender...

We gain by letting go.🤲

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

Enjoying the passage of time...

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

The one
that feeds you,
has power to starve you.

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'Sing,
barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband...' ~Isaiah 54:1

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'There is not enough local capacity to process all of the country's harvest.

The reduction in demand has led to a collapse in the price of shea nuts, which in turn has meant that the income from their work is no longer enough for the women to live on.'

https://t.co/ftab7lzNG2

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'As feminists,we can't champion progressive laws&call out external injustices,while failing to uphold those same principles in our structures. Its deeply hypocritical to demand accountability from the state while internally perpetuating harmful practices.'
https://t.co/mwOgXoEZ33

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'I hate to admit this: I thought marriage might improve us, it did not, but for the sake of peace in our marriage, I had to let go of ideas that I could control parts of Paul or fix him... So, I suppose, in a way, it did improve us.'
https://t.co/nKAylcAHlE

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'So teach us
to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom.'

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

Heartsease;
when you siezed
Struggling to belong to hearts
that were never ready to hold you.

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'When
you are
not fed Love
on a silver spoon,
you learn to lick it off knives'.
~T. Church

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

It takes
love and grace
to be and stay soft
with someone different from you.

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

Growth lives
where comfort ends.

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'If
you
don't fight
your demons,
they will raise
your children.'

[Adaobi Nkeokelonye Ph.D @Adankeokelonye]

'Of her own mother, she says: “She cried all the time until she died. The fact that she didn’t have any more children,and that I didn’t have any, hurt her.”
Fakambi saw things differently.‘Well, no,you don’t have to have children.’ My sister has children.'
https://t.co/ZoF1sDYXO8