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Augusta Declan – “The Things You Do Not Know”
This is what you do not know. That I'd always felt unloved, was an unhappy child. That I stuck out from the others, never fit the mould. That I yelled as often as I could because it was the only time anyone paid me attention. If I didn't, nobody really minded too. That I was… -
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Tumelo Lorna Bonno – “Living Through COVID 19”
Can an ordinary man survive? One of my lectures at the University of Botswana once said as human beings we should learn to use our receptive faculties in our everyday interaction. I was paying a visit to a friend when CNN, SKY News and other international channels broke news about the first cases of… -
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Chikere Chinwendu – “Colours”
What is the color of depression, is it the swirling blackness of despair? That sucks and threatens to drown you. You can't seem to clutch at anything. Not even your own shadow. You don't see anything. You don't know how you feel. Everything is black. You are desperate for solace, for comfort, for reassurance. To… -
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Adedayo Adeniyi – “Finding Hope”
I’m sitting on the bathroom floor, too tired to move. I have wept so much, my chest is tired from all the heaving and crying. It has been nine days since the bleeding started. What began as a normal menstrual period escalated to a river with thick clots like liver leaving my body in torrents.… -
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Oluwakemi Folorunsho – “Rollercoaster of Emotions”
I like to think ‘Life is good’. Some days, I feel on top of the world. In fact, most days I feel on top of the world then there are some days that I just break down and cry asking myself if life is really worth living. On days like these, it doesn’t matter how… -
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Ekene May – “My Epiphany”
I stopped talking, what was the point? Why did we live, to die anyway? On the 20th of May, 2010, I woke up early to relax, since I did not have any exams to write, till the following week. It was a Thursday and the last exam I had written was on Wednesday, which was… -
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Mich Atagana – “Emotional Blackholes and Dealing with Existential Crises”
"Imagine for a moment that all your bad feelings can be outsourced to a you in a different dimension." In the beginning, there was calm. Like always, I had woken up to the sun’s harsh rays attempting to permeate the membranes that protected my eyes. It was calm. I tried to push back the daylight… -
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Royboyi Prosper – “Depression”
With depression, it is counterproductive to keep pretending to be okay. Depression, that word we throw around so easily nowadays. That word we use to describe anything from a bad day to an overwhelming inability to live life. But as anyone with depression knows, it is much more than any one word can describe. It… -
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Bunmi Oke – “The Fellowship of Grief”
Just the other day on the beach, you had asked me—and a strange asking it was considering—how I would cope with the loss of you. Over the years, we've both been bereaved of loved ones—cousins, friends, both our dads and my mom (and most recently, and most devastatingly, the unborn little one in your belly)… -
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Belle Karen – “Beneath my shadows | A call for help”
Life A silent cry for peace The Universe I breathe life Dear Life: How are you and the breathing you keep so vividly? How are the vile ones and the morning you keep for them? You even gave them a night to rest their relentless souls, how guilty do you feel about that? How is…
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