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  • Memoir

    The Farmed

    An exclusive from Florence Ọlájídé.

    07 October 2022
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    Coconut Exclusive Extract

    An Exclusive Extract of Coconut by Florence Ọlájídé. Read the first four chapters for free.

    12 July 2021
  • Memoir

    Objects that speak a thousand words

    ‘Why am I not white?’ Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. A tender finger brushed against my cheek. ‘Everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?’

    12 July 2021
  • Memoir

    My Memories of Movement by Florence Ọlájídé

    As the Nigerian civil war drew to a close, my parents stopped home-schooling me and sent me to the local primary school…

    12 July 2021
  • Memoir

    Mama Yaba by Florence Ọlájídém

    It was time to pay another visit to my neurotic great aunt, Mama Yaba, and for some unfathomable reason, Mum wanted me to take my youngest sister, Idowu with me…

    12 July 2021
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    Adventures on the Road

    School holidays created an opportunity to travel to my dad’s home-town Ijebu-ode, the capital of Ijebu land, an area north east of Lagos.

    12 July 2021

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