“I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time. Some day, I will.”
It brings me so much hope seeing the relationship Issa Rae and Prentice Penny share. It’s a great reminder that their kind of partnership is possible and I’m manifesting it so hard for myself.
Ayika is now accepting submissions! Are you an artist or writer whose work surrounds the Nigerian and diasporas experience? Then this one is for you. We cannot wait to read you💙.
NB: previously published works aren’t eligible .
My unpopular opinion is that Nigeria needs to stop! We need to pause and acknowledge the trauma we are living through. Unions need to go on strike. Everyone needs to take a week long moment of silence. Going on like nothing is happening, is inhumane and insane. Phew!