Happy Birthday to me oooo. Happy Birthday, Fortune! This is perhaps the first birthday post I’ve dedicated to myself in a looong time. And the first I am really excited about in three years. I woke up today thinking, “Ewoo! Is this really my age?” 🤣 I mean, I still feel like a child. The … Continue reading TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING, FORTUNE
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Let’s Discuss Pregnancy Expectations
As a newly married woman in Nigeria, it feels like everyone — family, friends, strangers — expects you to fall pregnant immediately. People start monitoring you. It is always the woman they monitor.
JULIE
Julie She was about five or six years younger than me. Twenty-three or twenty-four, I am not sure. She never told me her age, but I knew she wasn't born before 1989, the year I was born. She was thin, with a voice that sounded like the high-pitched screech of a car coming to an … Continue reading JULIE
What I Chose Not to Do at My Weddings
I wasn’t expecting to get married this year, 2025. I wasn’t expecting to get married EVER. Why? Because I didn’t want to. As a little girl, I never fantasized about having a husband. And yet, surprise! Here I am, married, and blinking like, “Did I just...?”
MORIBUND
Moribund My mother is dying. One day last June, a friend told me that a person’s eyes turn white when they are on the verge of death. I remember because she used the term moribund. My mother is dying, but her eyes are getting darker. The room is hot. This room, contaminated by the smell … Continue reading MORIBUND
AND JUST LIKE THAT… IT IS A WRAP!
Written By: Fortune Aganbi Wow! I cannot believe that in a few days, we will be saying Goodbye to 2022 forever! What a year it has been. 2022 meant different things for many of us. For some, it was the best year of our lives yet; for others, it was the worst. However you feel … Continue reading AND JUST LIKE THAT… IT IS A WRAP!
THE VISITS
By Fortune Aganbi Photo Credit: PacificPress via Gettyimages They visit me every time. Sometimes it’s the man. Sometimes it's the woman. Sometimes it's the Thing that restricts my airflow and squeezes my navel. Sometimes it's a song that sings darkness, reminding me I'm in the future, perhaps somewhere in 2050. They all fuck me. The … Continue reading THE VISITS
DEAR LAST BREATH
By Fortune Aganbi The day I learned the meaning of the word "abnegation", I was thinking of stars. Not stars as in heavenly bodies, but human stars. The likes of Beyoncé and Cristiano Ronaldo. When a human being is called a star, the connotation is that the person is very successful and accomplished. And I … Continue reading DEAR LAST BREATH
THE NIGHT & FOREVER JOURNEY
The Night & Forever Journey Despite the high level of insecurity plaguing my country Nigeria, I still travel at night. It’s because I am a man who has ‘strong-head’, a word my countrymen use to describe someone who is irredeemably obstinate. A suitable synonym would be ‘coconut-head’ and that’s what I have: a big hard … Continue reading THE NIGHT & FOREVER JOURNEY
BRIEF NOTES ON FRIENDSHIP
By Fortune Aganbi Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good and alike in virtue; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good themselves. Now those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends; for they do this by reason of own … Continue reading BRIEF NOTES ON FRIENDSHIP
