BUSAYO A.

Wherever you are: happy, alone. in-between relationships. love demands something of

I will be writing about what I am not going to be doing, in the new year that is.

With every month that went by, I made some small incremental change that got me closer to where I wanted to be.

There's no party like a Yoruba party. And I admire how people are able to come together to celebrate both small and big wins

And to think a summer of boredom could do that, could possibly change the trajectory of how my mind works, and how I deal with life,

My first few years in Ondo town, I used the forest that stretched out before my school as a metaphor for the dense aloneness that I felt

It is still such a head-spinning thing, that I have the skills and knowledge to actually save someone’s life. What a humbling privilege

My story ends with an almost happy ending. Almost. Because I am deeply fascinated by endings that are open-ended. That are not real endings.

But really, the big underlying hurt I noticed in this book is the loss of agency that Niger deltans have in what happens to their own land

I just don’t feel like I’m someone that could ever be okay with being average.

It is interesting to me the angle that this author writes the book in. Shigidi is a book about heists, about unlikely anti-heroes and...

To be honest, balancing everything has never been so easy. It was a very different thing when I was a student and now that I work.

A thing that makes me appreciate this book is a thing the author points out – that it is a book that goes where few other writers have

#FirstPost It is more than two months into 2024, and this is the very first blog post. This is very, very unusual for me. And I explain why.

Christmas came - a quiet, harmattan-essenced day and it felt so much like a normal day. Like any other Saturday but in a lovely way

 The thing is, hard years are difficult to learn from while you still live in them. It takes going back sometimes, to realize what you reall

One of the workshop leaders pointed out how important it is to be kind while giving feedback I think everyone should know how to give advice

#OctoberReset SO… this is the blog post I promised you back in September. Aren’t you happy to hear from me? Well, I am to be writing to...

So many things that I didn’t believe I could do, I did without breaking too much of a sweat or without so much anxiety.

Being human, is such an interesting experience, and viewing it from this angle has shown me many things that I am still trying to process