Prologue I wanted to write this ‘essay’ as an essay – a long form of words organised in deep sentences and weighty paragraphs explaining where I was, and how the words D said to me are helping me hold on. But that failed, perhaps because I
On the day you turned 22, your father invited someone to your wedding. You were single, broke, unemployed, confused and not in love with anybody. This happened at the wedding of an acquaintance. You sat across the table from them in the reception hall having
In Afonja, the Rise, Tunde Leye attempts to bring to life important historical events. The book chronicles the lives of select political actors and their roles in the Ọ̀yọ́ empire. The title character Afonja is seen by many as the founding father of Ìlọrin, in