by Shally Alonge | Feb 14, 2023 | Stories
You are beautiful. Nkechi held my hair tight in two buns. My bum was on the floor as her hands wove through my thick hair while she inspected my face. I could see a glint of approval in her eyes like she had made lemons out of the lemonade that was synonymous with my...
by Shally Alonge | Nov 20, 2022 | Stories
“A gun, a uniform, and a powerful man,” I sing to myself as I look in the mirror and wear my army uniform every morning. The uniform endorses my power. The taunting shouts of my childhood, “You can be no good,” are gone. Am I not one of the...
by Shally Alonge | Nov 20, 2022 | Stories
My childhood memories are filled with stories of my ‘mothers.’ Every weekday around 4:00 p.m., we drove to Mummy Taiwo’s, my mother’s twin, office and waited for her to leave work. As my brother and I walked into her gigantic office building, ICON, we...
