Dipo Tepede

I think I love my wife ? “Guys will cheat”. Quickly, the typical Yoruba-superstitious-religious-Nigerian in me kicks in with a resounding- “My own husband will not cheat; I reject it in Jesus Name” (Of course, I remember to include the finger snapping over the head movement”. My ‘enemy’ returns with a smirk and another- “Better …

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   Sometime in the eighties, our TVs ran a syndicated advert for Venus, an old brand in the Nigerian hair-relaxer market, featuring our own ex-Miss Nigeria, Nike Osinowo (is she still ‘Osinowo’, never quite understood marriage-to-another-woman’s-husband gossip), maybe you’ll remember-   “A- Wow, my hair could never be like that” (A stares ‘lustfully’ at a woman’s …

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Goriola’s Love Story …  Series four(With ‘Funmilayo) I soon became impatient.And Someone knew too.It was the end of the semester and it was promising to be a long break since ASUU was threatening another strike.A few days after I was accosted for ‘anti-toasting’ offences, I saw the object of my affections in class. I walked past, …

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Goriola’s Love Story …  Series three(With ‘Funmilayo)  I steadied myself as I felt the world shift.   I couldn’t say anything. I just looked at Moyo, wishing her to disappear, wishing thirty-two seconds in reverse order, wondering what I did to make Moyo act this way. The only thing I was sure of was why …

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What on earth is everything coming to? Maybe it’s the public character of the telephone that makes it ‘accountable’ to give non-discriminatory information fairly. How come we allow corporate censorship to interfere with messages on racism, war, genocide etc but not abortion? Who called for discrimination when Verizon dropped Akon a few month ago? The …

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Goriola’s Love Story …  Series two(With ‘Funmilayo)  “Guy, wetin u dey look?” I knew I heard Gbenga, I knew he said something about me still looking but it took longer for my mind to process.  “Now that’s what I’m talking about” I finally managed to utter. “No, wait, you mean………..aah no way, no road for …

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Goriola’s Love Story …  Series One(With ‘Funmilayo)  I’d always thought I was a cross between Einstein and Pele- you know, genius and consummate sportsman.My skin and hair almost convinced me (you never can tell with the African sun) that I really wasn’t Master Einstein. Then, since Pele never came to reclaim his long lost son, …

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I love love-stories. I may play cynical, laughing at the plot and lines while the screen moves from one sob to the next laugh but I love them. They give me some warm gooey-lovey-anything is possible feeling and I like that. It’s even better when you actually know someone who lives love story. This is …

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Giving yourself some credit? I had some pretty good news recently- I wrote an exam and I did ok. Quickly I rushed off the emails and texts, sharing my joy with my friends. The message wasn’t quite the archetypal Nigerian text/Email a la- “Come rejoice with me and my family’ etc but close. It went …

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