victor

remembering defining moments in Africa.

For a while now, agony aunt columns in Nigerian media have offered Nigerians some of the most convenient routes for addressing intimate and societal issues, and navigating the complexities of relationships and cultural norms.

Despite the long history of Lagos as a cultural melting pot, the city has remained vulnerable to tensions around indigeneity.

On the day Fro-fro, the last of our poultry, an off-white and skinny hen in her last days, dies, my mother returns from the community school, flustered, failing at hiding it. She is wearing a brown…

Above all, his first conviction was that she could murder him and drop the rigidifying body out of a moving vehicle alongside the expressway like the gory headlines from Lagos gossip blogs about dead girls whose bodies were rolled out of speeding cars on the island. That she could, for months, withhold from him a

A short story of a mother who accepts that her son has come of age and must let go of him — from Victor Ola-Matthew