Tag: Egbemode
Intimate Affairs: Soft life, hard ends,
By Funke Egbemode There is a street in every Nigerian city that does not sleep. It hums at night, stretches at dawn, and by evening, it is fully dressed—perfume...
That Ojaaba Ibadan court of dirty linen,
By Funke Egbemode Every Saturday, I reach for the Saturday Tribune to read the latest tales of dirty underwear from Ibadan’s courts of broken marriages. ...
Nigeria’s Departing Future
By Funke Egbemode (egbemode3@gmail.com) Ace Actor, my multi talented friend, Yemi Sodimu, started a riot with this post some days ago: ...
Intimate Affairs: Walking away
By Funke Egbemode Walking away from a relationship is never easy. The temptation is always to wait for another couple of months and see if he would stop being a...
Tears in Tehran won’t dry soon
By Funke Egbemode At the funeral, a woman clutched a photograph of smiling pupils—perhaps her own daughters, now dead. The Office of the United Nations High...
Intimate Affairs: Why are grandmas having affairs?
By Funke Egbemode Nobody understands. How could she do it? Why did she do it after all these years? An affair after 25 years of marriage and three grown-up...
Political meeting at Mama Silifa’s Buka, by Funke Egbemode
By Funke Egbemode Scene: A wooden bench outside Mama Silifa’s Buka. Generator humming. Power just went off. Again. For the second time in 40 minutes.) Koko: (fanning...
Things you shouldn’t do for a man
By Funke Egbemode Patty was in pain, deep searing pain. She was not supposed to be in this place, end up at this sorry pass. She gave Alhaji her all, the relationship...
Intimate Affairs: Dear side chick, please put yourself first
By Funke Egbemode So you rent a three-bedroom flat for your side chick and furnish it, it does not make you her lord and personal saviour. What will make her...
