Funmi Akerele

Though the elevator only goes to the top floor, there is always a staircase to the roof. Vincent Steininger  Music boxes can be purchased anywhere.The songs from it are pre-recorded. Everyday listen may bore the heart and the music box ca n break off due to various replay. But some music boxes never stop playing- Our strong convictions. Our motivation. We are the world’s greatest soldiers- Women. We sing, hum and retain the music after the music box has finally found a resting abode.The songs of our hearts is like the deftness of our hands, working rigorously and gently to weave the idea we want to see. The story of business as told by my grandmother will never fail to amuse me. She said life is a wrapper we must tie around our waist or chest. She said the modern woman ties the wrapper on her waist because she has gained enough wisdom on the disadvantages of the wrapper on her chest. But the traditional woman ties the wrapper on her chest because the wrapped chest serve a lot of ...

*How does one mourn a friend?  Lara’s funeral is on Friday.  It’s been a long week for me and I am still confused.  My somehow scheduled and organize life has gone berserk, since the day I found the neigbourhood gathered in front of our house. Right in the midst of the confusion, our popular grapevine, the woman beside everybody’s house was able to share the story with much breaking news dexterity  “they said she just had her bath and she tripped and fell down their expensive staircase”.  That was our popular grapevine side to the story; she was always the first on the scene and no one has ever tried to beat her to it. But I knew that  wasn't  the story, I can bet my life  that the story was different. So I rushed to their apartment to ascertain if my friend and only neighbour; the landlord’s wife was truly dead. I met Tade, the deceased husband in tears.  Our eyes met, he looked down to look up again and confirm that my friend had t...

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...I am here I am more than enough I have so much to give I posses the strength to make things happen The strength to conceive... The idea And GET UP. ...Every idea is an ideal mountain top, only climbed by those little droplets of hungry sweats, brave enough   to encroach roundabout the calluses or smoothness of life. I am here, I am more than enough I took the bet, more like a dare to climb Knowing fully well I have so much to loose The ladder we all climb seems glossy Yet the slippery happenstance is usually for those who hold the ladder with wet hands,wet flip flops intending to climb. Slippery is good. It exposes our dynamism  They say the view at the top remains the best, yet with unwavering dexterity and a god-damn attitude -- only few idea -list climb. Inevitable are the results they meet :  concrete justice, or mountaintop justice. I am here I am more than enough I have so much to give The ladder is a disguise, ...

...acknowledging that our actions,beliefs,words and emotion are not the best choices is a state where we evaluate our selves and choose who we are and who we want to be. For those things you do,for the ones you have done, and for those yo u are about to do, once you get to a state that you P.A.C (Pause. Acknowledge and Clear your mind) before you act, then you have began to choose who you are and what to become. Emotional intelligent people are ordinary people who have mastered and aligned their emotions as well as others to yield positive results and actions to make impact in their workplace, relationship, career and lives. To choose yourself there must be a continuous evaluation of your emotion and thoughts before it culminate into any activity. What is the result of your choice action? I have chosen to love my life by aligning my thoughts and emotions to understand, evaluate and often re-evaluate what I want to do, how I do things and why I want to do it. To choose yourself; int...

Politics can be a pool of dirty tricks.  This is a global phenomenon and female politicians face the brunt of strict political environment, political violence, physical as well as sexual assault , abuse, and under -representation due to no support as well as gender discrimination prevalent in politics. Marginalization of women in politics in Nigeria can thoroughly be addressed by the support of women for women. The level of representation of women in politics in Nigeria is disheartening, yet the advantages for more female representation is huge. Women are the bedrock of the society and also a veritable tool of development in any society. There are so many hindrances aside marginalization or gender disparity, women politicians face but one winning edge to all these challenges is when we have more women supporting women in politics. Our value system is not encouraging, as women politicians are viewed as thieves who support the looting of the treasury. The wags of tongues and t...