AFRICAN STORIES

POEM BY ADETOUN RAJI KOLADE
it causes so much pain.
If you agree with no gain.
Many think its just a game.
Wanting nothing but wealth and fame.
It stairs up so much disturbance.
I strongly believe its due to ignorance.
For obtaining wealth it is used as leverage.
Its called child marriage.


Hmm.....what a sad story.
Filled with shame and no glory.
It's like a thief in the night.
Doing only wrong and no right.
A situation filled of heart break.
Weighing what victims has attained.
Ripping victim of their pride.
Its the humiliating child marriage.

We all need to act fast.
If we want this to be a thing of the past.
See what havoc its have wrecked.
Oh child marriage as far as I have read.
You strive so hard to ruin lives.
So ask yourself; will you ever die.
Turning a child into a Savage.
An end must be put into this bandage!!!!!.

Crush:? Prior to this articles means a feeling of infatuation with, or unrequited love of undying attraction towards a person or a specific thing. While both males and females at one time or the other find themselves caught in the Web of this mad attraction, girls generally have more pluralized reasons for developing crushes on a person. Males are generally more attracted to a girl’s physical appearance more than anything else. A guy is most likely attracted to a girl because of her looks… Great smile, big booties, colour, build etc.
However, girls have the most awkward sense of attraction. Aside from the general good taste for funny guys, pretty faced boys, tall dark and handsome guys etc… A girl could develop a crush on a guy for the weirdest reasons. Through my relations with girls overtime I have gotten familiar with the weirdest things that a girl gets attracted to…. They are as follows

1. GOOD HANDWRITING
This one is very popular in secondary school, there's this connection joining ladies emotions with anything creative. In my secondary school days a friend of mine wrote a letter to a senior , love letter precisely, normally she would have reported the letter but the hand writing was beautiful,and very neat despite the fact that the content was very wack!!. She replied the letter and all she wrote was the fantasies of how beautiful the writing looks.

2. APPEARANCE
This is the commonest reason why a girl will crush on guy. practically 90% of ladies love beautiful guys, even though they have little or no chances of ending up with them. A girl will ween repeatedly on how bad she wants that beautiful boy whose appearance looks so enchanting and fascinating, that boy whose nose is pointed, tall and very dark with neat and unique hairstyle, he necessarily doesn't have to be intelligent,smart, creative or funny. As long as he is cute the sisters will crush.

3. FAME OR POPULARITY
This is very funny. Even miss Unilorin and miss Nigeria will crush on Akpororo(Nigerian most ugly comedian) he isn't cute, he is 500miles away from the that word. Here its not about the appearance or physique its about the money and fame, you necessarily don't have to appear like Arsene Wenger or Lee min ho before ladies crush on you. Girls love to be noticed, it's not their fault it is hereditary and sanity of nature. Wannabe attitude?;most of them got it and it all rhyme and suits their pride. "Fame and popularity they say gets them faster than cuteness or fine face" you know that popular guy??she will find every possible means of sleeping with him or have memory of any sort so she can boast about it amongst her friends.

4. ASSESSORIES
You know that guy? That wealthy guy whose parent are stinkingly rich, that guy that uses the latest mobile phones, expensive gold chain with expensive ride gets the very best part of ladies. Everyone love beautiful things ladies own is extraordinary, a girl will crush on me because I use iPhone7,because I play instruments, infact she will crush on me because I wear expensive headphone. Girls are attracted to guys who wear some certain accessories. For example, a girl could get attracted to a guy just because the guy wears good wrist watches. Different girls have different tastes though. Some girls love guys who wears chains and some others shoes

5. CONFUSIONS AND JEALOUSY
this is the weirdest reason why a lady will crush on a guy, girls loses the best part of their emotions in jealousy and thereby loses everything. A lady will crush on a guy because he is known by people, they don't mind if its ideal or not. In fact it may be because her friends are also crushing on same guy. That means you don't have to be Mr intelligent or Mr fine boy if you're a known by few people it's sometimes extends the connection of attractions, they'd still crush.


6. INTELLECT AND CREATIVITY'S

Beauty wilts, but the intellect lasts if it is cultivated. Intelligence may not be attractive to some women who are easily impresses by a man’s confidence or looks. It will be noticed by women looking for someone who has their strengths in something other than their appearance. Intelligence is one of the very first things some women notice in a guy. So, play the safe side and be smart while talking to a girl. A girl will crush on a guy who play instruments, who sings sweetly or even write. Generally, girls like brilliant guys, but once a guy has a special knowledge of mathematics, it gets divine. It starts from the girls crowding around him whilst he solves maths problems to their delight. I’ll admit it myself, it’s like sorcery when a guy solves those figures effortlessly. Anyway, girls get easily carried away by the sweetness of seeing a guy dissect those maths problem easily and it leads to some physical attraction towards the guy. Wondered why the best math student in your class had lots of girls flocking around him?


7. SENSE OF HUMOR
One of the points most women point out about a desirable man is to make them laugh. This not only refers to a male’s ability to be funny, but to have a similar mood, which is equivalent to a greater possibility of compatibility. Even more so if they share jokes that only a small group would understand. The ability to make a girl laugh the very first time you meet can create a great impression on her. This is definitely one of the things girls notice in a guy as they want their partners to be fun spending time with. They don’t want a guy that makes their life dull and serious.

Note However that these doesn’t apply to all girls, as some are more emotionally mature than the others. And have in mind that what a girl finds attractive about one person another girl might not. But in the general sense, they are true

They were the popular ones.  The ones with all the latest designer clothing and buzz, the ones you’d find in every notable party on campus and the ones Ella wanted to belong with so desperately. Ella was a first year student of the University of lagos, Nigeria. You would think she would be more focused on getting her grades right especially as her parents were really struggling to put her through college. All she wanted for now was to be good friends with those popular girls. Everything else would fix itself later.

   It was the second semester. Ella had made sure to get herself clothes worthy enough to get her noticed by Benita and the other popular girls. This was despite protests from her mother about the cost. The party of the year was coming soon and Ella would not rest until she got an invite. Soon enough she got noticed, got herself closer to Benita’s clique and started doing almost everything with them. She got an invite to the party of the year and all was well in the world.

   Her friendship with the popular clique was blossoming. They would go to all sorts of parties and events together, get drunk and sleep with various men, usually of relevant status in society. Ella usually did everything with them except sleep with these men. She was from a religious home and her desire to belong with these girls hadn’t totally clouded her judgment from seeing that Benita and her friends were in all sense of the word, wayward. They had noticed Ella was a bit different and had started pressuring her to join in, adding that sleeping with the men was fun and it was the only way they could afford all the expensive clothing and reckless spending they got involved in. Ella was at the verge of losing her friendship with these girls and she did not want that. Day after day passed and the pressure only increased. Despite it all, Ella did not give in. This secretly angered Benita and the other girls because they had been spending money on her with the hopes of getting it back when Ella starts sleeping with relevant men too. They were not going to let it go and were thinking of ways to get their money back.






   The big party night Ella was so eager to attend was drawing closer. It was the birthday party of the richest and most influential student in school. All sorts of celebrity guests were going to be in attendance. Important dignitaries from all over the country were also going to be gracing the event, and of course, she was going to be seen with the best girls in school. Nothing could be better. Ella had been preparing for this party since school resumed the second semester and she was ready.  Meanwhile, Benita and her girls were plotting against Ella. They knew how bad Ella wanted to go to this party and they were going to use that against her. They planned to set her up to be raped and the party was the easiest place to get it done.

     The party night was here. As planned according to Ella’s knowledge, they were all supposed to go together so it came as a little shock to her when Benita called her and asked her to meet them halfway.  Unknown to her, the hoodlums that were to do the nasty act had been positioned close to the party venue just waiting for her. She didn’t have a car of her own unlike the other girls so she had to take public transport.  The cab she took broke down on the way and they all had to come down while the driver tried fixing it. By this time, Ella knew she was going to be really late for the party. She decided to get another cab. After succeeding in getting one, she reached for her purse to pay, only to find out it had been picked. The purse contained all her money and her phone. She was stranded and confused. By this time, the guys had grown too impatient and left. Ella, after standing for hours in the dark, was lucky enough to get a free lift back home.

   Ella missed the party and was very sad about it but, unknown to her, she was saved from a disastrous act. She was thinking about ways to explain to Benita and the other girls why she couldn’t make it but the girls were nowhere to be found. After several inquiries, she found out that they had gotten arrested on the night of the party for the possession of hard drugs. This was when Ella realized how lucky she was for not being able to go with them to the party, also just how lucky she was to have been robbed of her money and phone. Reflecting on everything that had happened, she could only come to a conclusion which was that; everything happens for a reason


Not everyone would have such opportunity which is why you have to abject from emulation and your wannabe attitude, save yourself , save your pride

Hey baby! I have wanted to call you, but I don’t know of a better way to communicate this to you on phone. I’m pregnant as shown in the test result I got from the clinic this afternoon. I am scared and confused. Please get back to me as soon as possible.”

Immediately after reading the last line of her text, I was frozen. My heart stopped for a moment and it continued vibrating the next minute. I have never received this kind of text message in my entire life. I didn’t only feel like a failure, I was also disappointed in myself.

“This is not the right time,” I whispered to myself.

I am the youngest person in my family and every of my older siblings is yet to be married. How could I have possibly been so careless at this delicate moment of my life? I will be writing my final exams in a few months time, which implies that I will be graduating thereafter. I tried to think of the situation, but all I could see was the night we spent together – the Fifty Shades of Grey kind of a night. We had it in the best way, and the totality of our body sunk into the dark night. “Skin to skin” and without any precautions whatsoever.

I didn’t reply her message since my plans had already changed. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to reject and deny the pregnancy. Let the worst come to be. More messages and missed calls, all unattended to. She eventually stopped texting neither did she call afterward. I thought that was all. Probably, in my thoughts, she must have aborted the pregnancy.



Barely a month later, while I was in my room reading for my final examination, I heard a bang on the gate. This wasn’t unusual as I thought it was my sister. She does that whenever she feels really pressed. I hurried to the gate expecting to see my sister’s face, rather it was Dolapo and her Mom. Already, I knew there was trouble.

“Is he the one?” Dolapo’s Mom asked her aggressively.

“Yes,” she responded in a tone almost nearing a whisper.

“What are you talking about,” I shouted out loud showing some annoyance on my face.

Now, the argument was getting louder and my mother came out to see what was going on.

Dolapo’s mom instantly confronted my mother and explained to her what happened and informed her that Dupe was already three months pregnant. My mom asked me if I was responsible for the pregnancy. I denied without any hesitation. Eventually, my mom was forced to believe me and she lent her support. I realised she saw me as one of the coolest and most reserved of her children. She must have had other reasons to believe my words though. The whole case eventually died down and I thought that was all.

Many years later, I had raised my own family. My last son was just a carbon copy of me. On one fateful day, we were all in the house watching a movie, when, all of a sudden, we heard a knock on the gate. It was a lady and her daughter. On sighting the woman, I felt guilty and thought of my Dupe of many years ago. She has now returned to destroy my family. This time around she had brought our daughter who is pregnant with my son. At that moment I knew I have lost peace in my family. I am now a victim of the secret I thought was buried in the past. It was complete disaster afterward

Eyes like jewels, eyes like diamonds.
Shining so bright, seeing so far.

How time flies, it makes me wonder.
A second, a minute, a prick and it's all gone.

Tick, tick, tick it goes on.
Slow and steady, waits for no one.

A warning, be fast with your thoughts.
Before time takes it all away.

No obstacles comes its way.
It takes along everything in its way.

How time flies, it makes me wonder.
Every second to use, is up to you.

How time brings back the little memories.
The all gone playful childhood.

Shooting star, shining sun and the beautiful moon.
Time passes, they get more beautiful.

There is really magic in time.
It makes one wonder, how time flies.

With time, we saw light after darkness.
When we were born and just helpless.

A world we enjoyed every single moment.
Time came, and took it all away.

Blame time and waste your time.
Every second is precious, never waste your time.

Story by Akin Omo Akin

You're discorded, strife, and dissented, but you want to remain loyal to him, him whom you just dropped his call few minutes ago. To you he is your man, your love and everything,you wish he is always with you but the distance between you two is as far as 1000km. He schools at Uniabuja But you're in Covenant university  a school where 90% of student comes from a rich home. You are in the midst of well built,rich and handsome looking guys, sometimes you feel like being romantically cruised with them and have fun still you didn't because you don't want to cheat on him. Your urge got increased and you started having series of thoughts,you can picture him cheating on you where he is even though you're not sure and just while you are having all of these rational thinking's You met this guy this cute looking dude,tall and well formed, he's very funny and caring,you feel like you're in heaven every time he is around you, he takes you out very often. You already know where all of that would lead,but again you believe you're strong enough to resist yourself from him,strong enough to keep him as just friend and nothing more, strong enough to keep him with you all the time and not loving him one bit because you love your boyfriend alot and you ain't never going to cheat on him. Your thoughts were true and real he asked you out, you said NO, but partially you're emotionally attached to him and you can't afford losing him,(you can't have him and you also cant let go of him) you decided to explain to him that you're having a boyfriend he said Fine and you feel happy about it thinking he's very understanding. He asked to be your bestie and you gladly accept because you really like him
Your relationship is gradually fading out. You get into fight with your boyfriend over the phone almost every time he calls, you no longer call him either, the relationship is just like that but one thing is you still love him very much. this new guy is very kind he's always available when you need him and when u don't. anytime you go out with him you tell your boyfriend about it because it is harmless friendship,you feel he wouldn't be jealous, yes true he wasn't not until you tell him about going out with the guy too often than he wished to know about,feels like he's losing you so you no longer tell him anything when the new guy takes you out and the relationship is just getting worse and poor daily


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    On one of these outings the new guy kiss you, you told him never to try such again, when you get home you couldn't sleep you love the kiss, it was sweet but you hate the fact that you love it (body no be rock now)🤗 you re already attracted to him and anytime he's with you, you feel like having him all. He invites you to his apartment and you re both watching a romantic movie when you feel his hand wrapped around your shoulder ,he pulled you closer and look into your eye this time he has caught you completely you hold him and you both started kissing you want to stop and tell him you have a boyfriend but you're feeling the sensation and stopping him seems completely  impossible, before you could open your eye youre completely stripped off Sooner you allowed him slide through your honey pot which you swore to your boyfriend that only him will be allowed in. The sex was sweet and interesting you loved it because your boyfriend has created a urge in you  that needed to be filled.
      Not long after the incidence the new guy stopped being consistent, he's almost not available again, he stopped being funny gradually till he fade off your life and become one of your pasts. Just then you remember your boyfriend, you called him and told him how you really missed him and how you have been faithful to him despite his absence.
  Being in love doesn't stops anyone from cheating and distance relationship is a menace to true love.