Caleb Tochukwu Okereke: Dear Aunty, let me tell you the things that have changed

It has been one year and a month since you left. Your last moments I remember were spent in the Lagos hospital, surrounded by family, sympathizers and the apathetic medical personnel’s. You died from insufficient attention on every part, from the nurses who were too busy, perhaps quibbling about the new wig that lined Balogun... Read More

October 17, 2015

Just before you end your life, think of these few things (ARTICLE)

I know life is hard, Lagos life especially. I know what it means to sit in traffic for hours and bear the tantrums thrown by ‘always correct’ bus drivers, what it means to swallow with wrinkly expressions like a child forced to gulp quinine, the insults of egocentric employers who handle every woman in their... Read More

book, life, prose, suicide

October 6, 2015

Caleb Okereke: This weight called Bride Price

Nne, You are not educated. The closest you’ve been to school is aiding your Mother in the shop where she sells drinks and were you let grizzled men pinch your behind as they bellow in excitement. You call it the School of the Wife because it is the school in which you learn how to... Read More

September 15, 2015

This is why all men should have mistresses

From my early years of watching Nigerian home videos in the conviviality of our Lagos home and reading Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds, I had consequently come to realise that the mistress was the malicious one when placed on scale with the wife, that she was the home breaker, the one to watch out for... Read More

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Caleb Okereke, Mistresses

September 8, 2015

An open letter to Ali Baba on same-sex marriages

Dear Ali Baba, This is what you do not know. You do not know that you are like those self righteous people who litter our Pentecostal churches – Those self righteous people whose measure of their Sainthood is based on how petty their sins are in the face of others. You think because your mind... Read More

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ali baba, Gay marriage, homosexuality

September 1, 2015

Does feminism preach gender equality or women’s rights?

Next week, I will sit in a bus that is speeding along the tarred road. The trees will hurry past us, their leaves wobbling like an Agadi, elderly man and I will listen to contemporary Nigerian music blare from the lips of a car stereo. Perhaps, it will be the head bobbing Osadebe songs, or... Read More

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feminism, Gender equality

August 3, 2015

What happens till you get that mystery job?

I still am largely an undergraduate. This means like many others every decision I have made is to groom me for “Tomorrow”. This tomorrow I have been told is a place of uncertainty, a place where everything is possible, a place with the spindly legs of an infant, thus a place that totters from volatility... Read More

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employment, graduate, Jobs, unemployment

July 19, 2015

Caleb Tochukwu Okereke: Black gods

One of the vital lessons I’ve learnt in my few years on this planet is the uncommon aptitude to learn things for myself, the uncommon aptitude to mutilate stereotypes. For the green years of my life, I have lived in a society tainted with many conceptions. Like a sheet of glass covered with a... Read More

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Caleb Okereke

Caleb Tochukwu Okereke: Dear Aunty, let me tell you the things that have changed

Just before you end your life, think of these few things (ARTICLE)

Caleb Okereke: This weight called Bride Price

This is why all men should have mistresses

An open letter to Ali Baba on same-sex marriages

Does feminism preach gender equality or women’s rights?

What happens till you get that mystery job?

Caleb Tochukwu Okereke: Black gods

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