Not to be that person, but our literary/visual understanding of romantic expressions as Africans are very much defined by white standards. Yes, even in love, we are colonised.
Otherwise what concerns an African woman with hair tucking? Her Afro (or braids) don’t move that way 😭
I don’t want a soft life because I’m lazy. I want a soft life because I’ve spent most of my life in survival mode. my nervous system has been in fight or flight since childhood and now I’m choosing peace and stability.
Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya makes history as the first-ever elected female president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), since its inception in 1960. 🔥🇳🇬
Suicidal thoughts aren’t always I want to die.
They’re also..
I feel trapped.
I need a way out.
I am a burden.
What’s the point in life?
I need to escape my thoughts.
Nothing will ever get better.
I see no future.
I can’t bare this pain anymore.
Am worthless.
200+ pages in and I gotta say, Adanna is terribly unrealistic and just an overload of trauma porn
I’m not sad or traumatized. I’m not even angry about her situation.
I’m just enraged at the writing and I doubt I’d be reading any more of this author’s work