Published inInside the Cabal·PinnedTechCabal is surging ahead in 2022 and beyond 🚀Hello everyone, welcome to February. You probably already know this — because we’ve mentioned it a few times — but TechCabal started off in a small room in Lagos many years ago. 2013 to be specific. It is safe to say that, nearly 9 years later, TechCabal has grown to…Techcabal5 min readTechcabal5 min read
Published inInside the Cabal·PinnedTechCabal has a new look 🎉coughs Is this thing on? Six months into TechCabal 3.0 and a few things are changing. Armed with our new motto — “Everyone is invited” — we are telling more pan-African stories and covering more regions on the continent. And speaking of stories, we decided to give them a…Media5 min readMedia5 min read
PinnedPillow Talk #1: Time goes by, so quickly…With our legs intertwined Like soft pretzel — time becomes an Innocuous child slipping out from Between rumpled sheets, Escaping our grasp, Running wildly around our home — And we forget about her. We forget her existence And bury ourselves even deeper Into one another Each of us traveling…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jul 9, 2020Sister ActMy sister is dating Abdul again. He is a banker and his suits smell like trapped dust and air conditioning. He is Muslim and he lets me play with his prayer beads when he stops by to visit. He also brings a bag of Taffy’s along with him. While I…Fiction6 min readFiction6 min read
Nov 18, 2019How Quickly the Living Forget the Dead.how quickly children forget the mothers who nursed them. how quickly these young ones grow — they shoot up like blades of grass and try as you may, you cannot tame wild spirits. how quickly lovers move on. how quickly they forget the kisses they stole when they assumed no-one…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Jul 12, 2019My name. My father. My legacy.My Name. A few years before my father passed, he gave me a history lesson about my name. Before I was even conceived (wow. dramatic), my father had written out 5 names for his 5 (unborn) children. He had, quite literally, formed each of our names. He ended up having four children…Life4 min readLife4 min read
Oct 21, 2018TEN.It takes him ten steps to move from his bedroom to the bathroom. I know this because I have been counting. It takes five seconds to peel himself off me and roll over to his side of the bed. He takes two long inhales, lets out two sharp exhales with…Fiction2 min readFiction2 min read
Jun 1, 2018In Flat 4A, two bodies separate.Before the rain became this noisy, raucous sound outside their window, it began as a soft, innocuous drizzle. June is the month of swollen clouds, puddled roads, cold winds and unending rain. At the start of the rainy season, Lagos becomes a cooler, more bearable city. The relentless burning of…Fiction3 min readFiction3 min read
Jan 1, 2018WATER. 1/1/18.I want to go where there is water — walk into the brightest blue ocean… walk in until my head is completely submerged underneath. walk in until I sink to the bottom. I wonder what I will see beneath the blue — will the water be darker? will I be…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Aug 17, 2017No More Empty PagesMy story begins with me in a spacious suite at the San Francisco Intercontinental Hotel. I’m rifling through my suitcase, looking for a t-shirt, or my favorite black panties, when I come across one of the many notebooks I’ve kept over the years. It’s an orange notebook with a bank’s…Writing2 min readWriting2 min read
