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Chronicles of Kwame

Dear Kwame, I'm not going to start with greetings ,on second thought Ogamba chi!Ayako told me you are learning kiganga . Tell me how that goes.I've been thinking about a lot of stuff one of them being rich ,Kwame, rich in the sense that I can say naiveté instead of stupid.haha I know you'd tell me to go move to France ,good idea I heart but no thanks.or rather I don't have to be rich to say it I just have to sound rich.so today i went to the morgue and told him I'm tranna make a reservation, you should've seen how he reacted 😂Oh Kwame it was priceless.  I was only thinking about the Trans Atlantic slave trade,Kwame Europeans sold us weapons to fight each other then we became pawns in cold war.I'm just thinking we have no one to blame for our failures our leaders have turned out to be worse than the colonial governors .Argh!enough! enough about this talk ...I'm hungry .Care to join?           Yours truly, Naakia💜

The Secret lives of Baba Segi's wives

The Secret lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin. The book The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives  is a tapestry of cultural representations that happen in deeply rooted African homes. Lola Shoneyin, the author, keeps it African and funny from the word go. Baba Segi is the typical African man who boasts of having a nursery of children, many wives who he clearly doesn't know how to please besides being blessed immensely by a third leg. He married a fourth wife who is the only university graduate among all the rest. This pretty lass, faces shame like she has never seen before.Reason being she cant bear a child yet all the other three wives are blessed with children. Misery loves company, is all we can say about the other three women. Later on it turns out they all had a secret that they were determined to keep at the expense of the graduate woman's life.Fate has it that one of their children dies instead. what a twist. its sad.I shed a tear at this point. ...