Dennessa Writes

 Hey guys welcome to the blog. I'm sad today, I recently played house guest to a friend and her brothers, they were nice and generous with me. Today, one of the brothers is no more. A friend of mine had once said, "the price of living in Nigeria is our lives", and I didn't dwell much on it till this morning. Next year elections will commence and our aspirants are already garnering supporters - from the elite class to the laymen, yet, these candidates are the recycled lot we've been accusing of corruption, avarice, negligence, poverty increment, and what not. But they're out there with the same song and dance at the same frequency, with the same gimmicks.  Promises like employment opportunities, better road networks, better security, curbing or obliterating ASUU strikes, improved health care and the fallacies can go on and on. Let's stick to health care for today's post. If you've never had a run-in with the Nigerian public health system you're ...

 In our society, everything from our dressing to our blee is used to judge us. Some find it harder than the rest. But the plight of some cuts across several other societies not just ours. Welcome to the blog lovelies.  You know in our African community a lot of people have put in effort, chemicals and so much more, to become as light as possible right? Well there's a certain kind of light skin that they cannot achieve. That light skin isn't achievable because it is a resultant of a deficiency of melanin - albinism.  The cause of albinism is a defect in one of several genes that produce or distribute melanin, the pigment that gives skin, eyes, and hair their coloring. The defect may result in the absence of melanin production or a reduced amount of melanin production. It is neither a disease nor a curse as some African communities including ours see it to be atimes. People with albinism have extremely pale skin, eyes and hair. They are at an increased risk of vision, skin ...

 I've clogged my eye sockets again and my nostrils are full too. Tears and mucus, yuck! But what can I do? Hey guys welcome to the blog. Let's talk about anxieties… The bible encourages us to be anxious for nothing and I am a Bible believing, tongue speaking christian yet, I am anxious about almost everything. Hi, keep in line, I'm not nearly holy enough, saved not perfect, and progress over perfection. Back to anxieties, how do you deal with them? My birthday is in two months ish, and I am already overly demeaned by self. A year older what have you achieved? Why do you deserve to be happy and celebrated? What are you thankful for? What has changed? Yo it's a hassle. I often say that I am my biggest critic, do you get these talk down from yourself too? I wonder how the revelation, 'be anxious for nothing came about'. I mean, God do you not see that people are winning in different spheres of life and all I'm doing is existing, like???? How is it that the only...

 Reconnecting was a miracle, or at least I thought it was. As the lockdown orders were retrieved and flights started moving again you were here, among the first few who took flight amidst the stringent restrictions. When I saw you, I wished I could bottle the moment and keep it forever, but this is all I could do... "Dear You," I might never perfectly explain this moment but I'm in awe of the person God created you to be. Today I'm so elated I might pee in my pants. You're here unharmed. I can see the crease at the corner of your eyes as you smile and your dimples in your cheeks. I can hold your hands and wrap them around me. I lay with you. Thank you. You wouldn't understand the depth from which these words proceeded, so I kept them in my now piling portfolio of letters to you.

  There will always be propaganda, those who instigate it, those who propagate it, those who are indifferent to it, and finally, those who refute it. Like most Nigerian movies there's a theme to the man of God movie, while we can infer our own themes based on experiences and belief, the writers, actors and entire production crew had theirs in mind whilst they made the movie. Nice watch by the way. My favorite character being Reks, Rekya anyone you choose to call her. One of the reasons I don't jump on the bandwagon of writing about trending topics as e dey hot, or throw in my two cents as most others do, is because there's always a small window for self bias to cloud your otherwise sound judgement. I've seen people rise up with rakes and knives about this movie, and I intentionally watched it to see why. One thing I would first point out is this, that it is titled " the man of God" does not make it a Christian movie. The story is about Samuel Aba or Oba somet...

 I think that when it comes to politics, we're hypocrites. It's the only way I understand this theory - you hate something in its original form and assume you would love it in a different pack, that is, the same content in a different pack. How? Hey lovelies, welcome to the blog.  Elections are on the way again and guess what... almost all the candidates have been in power before. In fact two of them led my state (in Lady Gaga's voice, "applaud, applaud, applaud").  Former vice presidents are in the running too. Almost all, if not all, have held one political position or the other. Did they bring the change they claim they're bringing this time around? Did they solve the problems that were within their purview to solve? Did they do anything remotely wonderful?  Loyalists please stay far away from me. We're trying to make our votes count, encouraging the youths to get their PVC's and come out en masse to do the right thing. We're asking that urgent ...

  Growing up calling someone fat made them uneasy. They rather used other adjectives to describe themselves - I'm not fat, I'm big, I'm chubby, and most recently I'm thick. Hey guys, welcome to the blog. Back in the day we were told that "fat" people were unfit, lazy, had body odour and were more susceptible to diseases, I'm here in Wike's voice to tell you, "all fake".  I'm going to use the words of a longtime friend who's thick and fitter than even I  here: "In my own words being thick and fit is very possible, people might likely not understand because they just can't relate. I'm able to do most things any other person can, I dance, do sports, wear fitted clothings and still feel good under my own skin, sometimes I do strenuous activity and can't catch my breath....yaya!!!....as do sooo many other slim folks out there, even scientists have debunked the theory that your BMI determines how healthy you are or if yo...