Today I want to get really deep and personal with you all about an illness I battled during the darkest period of my life. Whether or not you are a stranger to me, I hope my story helps to shed some light about the reality of mental illness and its gravity; how deeply and seriously [...]
Let me tell you a little story about an encounter I had with a niqabi at a popular market in Lagos. It was a hot and dry afternoon in Lagos and my mum managed to lure me out of bed and to convince me to go to the market with her. Upon arriving at the [...]
Assalam alaykum lovelies! I hope you are all feeling great today and on track to smashing the rest of your goals for this month. Can you believe there's just a few more days to wrap up this year? A few more days before the lapse of a decade and the start of a new one? [...]
Assalam alaykum ummati! I genuinely hope you and your loved ones are doing great. For my brothers and sisters that are sick, wounded and troubled, may Allah swt grant you all shifa and sakina and may He mend the hearts of the broken-hearted. So, it dawned on me a couple of days ago that I'm [...]
2018 would go down in history as one of the most challenging years in my life. If my life were a book and you were to flip through the pages and land on chapter 2018, you would be sure to find that all its pages are highlighted or emboldened to emphasis how deeply impacting the [...]
My sweet friend Amina and I decided to go have lunch at an Asian Restaurant called 'Pow'. A few days prior to our outing, I fell seriously ill and the initial plan was for her to come pay me a visit at home but I had been bed ridden for some days and felt like [...]
If you work in my office then you must have heard of two restaurants; Ojuelegba and Caesars Restaurant; both highly praised for their amazing rice dishes. As you can guess, I was craving rice on one cold and hungry afternoon and decided to check out the famous Caesars restaurant that my colleagues have been begging [...]
Assalam alaykum lovelies! My taste-buds have been on fire the past couple of weeks but I'm here today to give a review of a healthy restaurant for all my clean eaters and fit-fam family! So, I was in the office going through my unread inbox when I felt my tummy rumble like thunder. I peered [...]
Hello everyone! As you may all know, the members of Le Savoir Book club met up last month to discuss their selected read from the African Literature genre; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and boy do I have a whole lot to say about it! I’ll start with the author herself. Yaa Gyasi, 30, is a [...]
Salam alaykum! It’s that time of the month where I update all you lovely seekers on the amazing new things I’ve been loving the past month. This particular month is very special to me. Since I began this series I must say the picks for this month are the dearest to my heart thus far [...]
