Shine!
If you can’t beat them? Don’t join them. Just shine!
If you can’t beat them? Don’t join them. Just shine!
“Happy Independence Day!” A two-year-old smiled at me and, in his not-so-clear baby language, greeted me. “Oh, wow, even you?” I thought to myself. “What do you know, little one?” As a Nigerian, you would hear this same phrase all day, every 1st of October, chorused by almost everyone you encounter. Some learn to quickly…
I remember hearing things like, “Ibukun, what’s the worst that could happen if you publish a book? Maybe some people won’t enjoy it, but so what? You’ve read books you didn’t enjoy, and those authors still wrote them anyway! But what if people do enjoy it?”
This is a documentation of notable events and happenings around my first experience of childbirth. Everything here is from my point of view, it is not necessarily what any other person would experience. I hope that you will find joy and pleasure reading my story. I fell asleep just as labour was starting, and when…