Category: Genre
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3 Moons & a Thousand Nostalgias: EuKnighTed.
Until She suggested that we both write, from our different angles, how we’ve survived these past months of, er, intercontinental dating, I probably hadn’t taken time to view the subject in such a summary sense. I nodded outside and sighed within. I scanned the varied experiences of the past 12 weeks plus, plus the adjustments…
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Love, LDR and Love Languages: EuKnighTed.
This is the first part of a discussion on the alterations that come into love expressions in relationships on account of distance.
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African-Caribbeans Arise!: We Complete Home for One Another.
You step into a room and you feel this realization that you are not home, but you’re in the one place that can remind you of it. This was the atmosphere at the University of Southern Mississippi, African-Caribbean Society Night. Diversity in the diaspora. Traditional attires, natural hairstyles, dark and darker skin tones, African flags,…
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Update in Due Time: About that Masters in Public Health.
Knowing why that guy in the wheelchair in Sex Education needs to be blown up in the first scene of season 3 (whenever it films) is probably not the best preamble to this post. But, it is my blog and SEO stuff can like to hug a Nigerian electric pole while it rains. Yeah, nothing…
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One Confirmed Hit Covid-19 Had on Me.
Know Your Body. I woke up… or more accurately, it woke me up; The Covid Fever. Six days earlier, it had been giving hints but coinciding with my period, I did not think much of it. In fact, for me, it was not uncommon to have some malaise and discomfort around this time. But, this…
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I Should Have Been Born An Avenger.
Story of my first birthday picture.
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Musings of Shit: I Think My Toilet Might be Telling Me Som’ng.
A short introduction to short nonfiction stories.
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When All Has Been Said and Done: About That Masters Program.
Masters in Public Health at the University of Southern Mississippi come January 2021 was the plan until plans had to change despite all I said and did.
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Virtual Interviews; Anxiety and How to Play Dead to Stay Alive.
Today’s interview with an International Non Governmental Organization took me from looking like that in Image 1 to the look in Image 2. This year has made many of us explore the possibilities of virtual meetings, both formal and informal. And, we have had to learn and adjust to the modalities of interaction, body language…
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Going Off the Typical Career Paths for Medical Doctors in Nigeria.
I am a medical doctor. If you are one too or you are close to one or two, you’d be aware of the trajectories that form the usual career paths for doctors, especially in Nigeria. I. Graduate from medical school: This is after 6-10 years (plus 5 more in some cases😨). Years in which scoring…