Celebrity Convos – First Edition
It happened that we wanted to share a story and there was no enough room to tell the story. Usually, our stories at Awa Ti Ibadan are on the average …
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An Evening With Lafup & the children of Jesus Children Mission Orphanage
“Find someone who is ahead of you in whatever you choose to do. Understudy them,” Lafup says when one of the kids asks him what his advice will be for anyone who wants to be a comedian. He then goes on to tell the story of his relationship with Alibaba and how that relationship has impacted his career.
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SPECIALE: Chief Dotun Sanusi, A Star Out of Ilaji
1 “After Oja’ba, close to the late Oba Adetunji’s palace at Popoyemoja is a compound called Ile-Ilaji, Idi-Arere. That Ile Ilaji is where my mother hailed from. It so happened …
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A Blossoming From A Hard Place
“As the first child of the family, I never really knew my dad. Growing up, all I knew about him was that he always showed up on Fridays or …
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2024: Two Broke Men
. . Two men were struggling. One had a theatre group that struggled; he had actors but he could barely pay them because the gigs they got were few and …
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A Series of Bad Decisions
“From a very young age, I have always tried to escape the inconvenience. I never stayed in one place for a long time. Once a base became inconvenient by my …
Read MoreFaysol Oluwakemi: God Is in the Delay
As the year 2019 came to an end, my girlfriend at the time broke up with me for a reason that felt (and still feels) so triffle. We’d been in …
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I am Peteru
My parents used to live in Bida, then along the line, my dad was transferred to Ibadan and so they came here and made it home. I was born at …
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Larva Stories
G R A C E From the time I left secondary school in 2017, I discovered that I was passionate about how technology solves problems. I went online and I …
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A Dangerous Expedition of the Heart
. When I came into Ibadan, I began to attend a parish of the Celestial Church of Christ. The parish’s Shepherd had a daughter, Kike. Kike and I became …
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A Story of Breaking Through
In the interiors of the city of Ibadan is a community called Oja’gbo. Life in Oja’gbo is rough; to survive you have to be rugged. It is a place where …
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Where Is Daddy?
As a little girl growing up, everything was always mommy-mommy-mommy and I would wonder whether I had a dad or not. I must have been around 3years or 4 …
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A Long Winding Journey in Single Motherhood
I was 18 years old when I finished secondary school, that was in 2009. At that time, I had guys toasting me but I was not in a relationship. …
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The Mistake, the Great Resolve
Right after my mother’s funeral in 2006, we (her children) were put in different aunties and uncles’ homes so that they could look after us. I was moved from …
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Church Girl Gone Rogue
. “I was born and raised in a Christian home with high Christian values. I was quite stubborn and always wanted to have fun but my dad – being …
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Folakemi: Opening Up Conversations About Single Motherhood
“People become single parents for different reasons – some their partners died, some they were not compatible with their partners, some pregnancies were a consequence of rape, some become single …
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Adeola Raji – A Peek Into America From New York to Atlanta
. I randomly came upon an advert on the internet in 2017 requesting applications to attend the United Nations Youth Assembly – in New York – as a delegate and …
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Seyi Adisa: God’s Plan
I was age 13 when – for the first time – I really thought about my future. What spurred the thinking? I was moving from JS3 to SS1 and I …
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Kehinde Odusina: Man On Marks
(1/5) I come from a place in Ogun State that – much until recently – was a proper village. Both my parents are from the same place but my …
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Adewumi: The Arabian Slavery Called Work
“When agents pitch to you about working in Saudi Arabia, they will tell you great things about the place; they’d tell you that you can work as a nurse or …
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Agbowo Shopping Complex: Remembering The Glory Days
Agbowo Shopping Complex was the brainchild of the then military governor of the Western Region of Nigeria, General David Jemibewon, and constructed on over 30-plots of land in 1983 by …
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DJ Wiseone Ijaya: A Long Journey To Djaying
My mother passed away when I was three. No one really cared much for me going to school – education wasn’t such a priority; it was just a mere …
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