Quarter of a Blue Moon – 15
FIFTEEN The evening was dim with the sign of rain. The distance to the big store where kerosene was sold at a good price was a long one. With James …
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FIFTEEN The evening was dim with the sign of rain. The distance to the big store where kerosene was sold at a good price was a long one. With James …
Quarter of a Blue Moon – 15 Read MoreA 30-year-old man, Yusuf Olubu, has committed suicide at Aboru community on the outskirts Lagos metropolis for his inability to meet his financial obligations. Olubu’s body was found in an …
Father of Two Commits Suicide in Lagos – Nigeria Read MoreAs the current economic crisis bites harder on Nigeria, Africa’s former giant, many city dwellers have been relocating from the big cities to their villages or rural communities to survive …
Economic Recession: Nigerian City Dwellers Forced To Move Back To Their Villages Read Moreby Chinua Achebe Michael Obi’s hopes were fulfilled much earlier than he had expected. He was appointed headmaster of Ndume Central School in January 1949. It had always been …
Short Story: Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe Read MoreAtheist and Blogger, Staks Rosch wrote: Have you read the Bible? I mean really read it and not just flip around to the pages that your religious leader told you …
Article: The Bible is Ridiculous! Read MoreTHIRTEEN Chinelo ambushed Jideobi on his way back from NaijaBet. His face looking every inch of it, Jideobi uttered: ‘Nne, you startled me!’ ‘Nnaa, ndo,’ Chinelo apologized. She bent and …
Quarter of a Blue Moon – 13 Read MoreA renowned psychotherapist and family counselor has this to say: I think it’s just biology. She carried the child internally for 40 weeks, and then gave birth. The child is …
Why Mothers Are Better Parents Read Moreby Staff writer India has one of the world’s fastest growing economies. But the southwest Asian country also has the largest number of slaves in the world. In the midst …
Bridal Slavery in India! Read Moreby Staff writer Anna fled her village in May. The 50-year-old woman said when South Sudanese soldiers arrived in her village, they treated her family and neighbours “like animals”. They …
Women in Displacement Camps in South Sudan have a Horrific Story to Tell Read Moreby Amanda Jayne Sankey I am not a feminist. It seems like every time people in my classes find this out, they assume I don’t understand what we’re talking about. …
I Am Not A Feminist, And That Is Okay Read Moreby Daniel Nkado …the Iwa ji festival marks the arrival of the new yam. Papa used to follow the Igwe and other elderly men of Umunka to Ogwugwu shrine …
The Festival of the New Yam Read Moreby Briana Jones Taboos are rarely black and white. While one person or group may consider a certain act socially unacceptable or downright immoral, another may see it simply as …
5 Shocking Stories of Incest throughout History Read Moreby Penina Winisdatter The point of atheism, to me, and this may not pertain to others, is to stop being afraid. The point of religion…all religions, in my opinion, is …
The Difference Between Religion and Atheism Read Moreby Daniel Nkado *** Read the first part HERE *** ‘Answer me, you this Igbo girl!’ Mummy Kafayat screamed again. ‘Is this how you live where you come from?!’ ‘No, …
Love Story: Dorcas’s Dream – 2 Read Moreby Daniel Nkado My grandmother passed away today. Oh please don’t say sorry to me, I’m not that very sad. She’d died a fulfilled woman. Two months before her eventual …
Flash Story: Before Grandma Died! Read MoreOne Thursday almost 20 years ago, on the 19th of September 1996, during the brutal regime of the late General Sani Abacha, something happened in Nigeria that shocked the entire …
The Otokoto Ritual Killings of 1996! Read Moreby Staff writer Genetic and some other factors aside, technically, any profession where you constantly give in a lot more than you gain is prone to lead to depression. In …
Top 13 Jobs Mostly Affected by Depression Read Moreby Daniel Nkado It was just as she described. They got to the junction of three roads and followed left. Oye-Nta market, as usual, boomed with women. It was a …
Short Story: Once Upon A Journey! Read MoreTWO Bariga was messy. As she walked down the busy and noisy roadside market, some minutes after the tricycle she boarded stopped, Amaka had concluded in her mind that she …
Quarter of a Blue Moon – 2 Read Moreby Daniel Nkado The door opens. Philomena walks in. She looks dull, or sad, or annoyed. Or all three. “Mama, good evening,” she mumbles. Mama raises her face from her …
Flash Story: Philomena Read MoreA Party To Remember – 1 ‘Who is giving me shoe na?’ Nwamgbeke said again. Again, none of her roommates behaved as though they’d heard her. All of them were …
Roommates 3: Episode 8 Read Moreby Daniel Nkado Shoulders so strong they could carry the weight of the world Yet heart so gentle it fills the air with inexplicable comfort A thousand pain and one …
African Poem: Only A Woman! Read MoreIn March 2013, a brutal sectarian violence erupted in the Central African Republic. The crisis began when mostly Muslim Seleka forces overthrew the government and unleashed a wave of violence, …
Know Africa: The One That Stood Read Moreby Carl Uke Umuato village has a huge achi tree located at the centre of the village square. The tree talks at midnight. Every Umuato native is aware of this …
Flash Story: The Talking Tree Read Moreby Staff writer In 1904, Ota Benga was kidnapped from Congo and taken to the United States, where he was exhibited with monkeys. His appalling story reveals the roots of …
Know Africa: The Ota Benga Story Read Moreby Phil Lesedi The Sarah Baartman story is a story every African woman should know. Sometime in the late 18th century, Sarah Baartman was working as a slave in Cape …
The Sarah Baartman Story Read Moreby Talius Dike In a family of 6, Nkoli was youngest and the only girl. Her father had died when she was just 7 and for the past 9 or …
Short Story: A Mother Read Moreby Talius Dike Ebuka and Nneka have been married for 3 years now. Though to them, it seemed like 33 years. It is obvious that love has finally been lost …
Short Story: The Untypical Nigerian Husband Read Moreby Daniel Nkado This is not my story. No, it isn’t. It’s actually my father’s, the way he told it to me. Unlike most babies, I wasn’t born in a …
Short Story: My Father’s Story Read MoreWritten by Daniel Nkado Lately, the Uzekwe family has been plagued with a lot of misfortunes. Barely two months after Papa died, their eldest daughter failed to make it out …
Fiction: The Silent Witch Read Moreby Nnenna Okolo Chioma is her happiest today. She is finally going to see Grandma. It’s been some years now since she last saw her. Roughly 4 years ago— the …
Flash Story: The Return Read MoreSIX She thought she wouldn’t sleep, but she did. After dinner, she’d entered her room quietly. She didn’t join the others to watch Super Story on NTA. Later, Ugochi knocked …
Something Bigger Than Love – 6 Read MoreFive Adaku stared at the big bus, reading the inscription on it— THE YOUNG SHALL GROW MOTORS—over and over again. At the right, a man was loading passengers’ luggage into …
Something Bigger Than Love – 5 Read MoreTHREE They brought wine today. It was meant to be a small occasion, smaller than a normal wine-carrying ceremony. They had come with just two elders; one was Ichie Okwu, …
Something Bigger Than Love – 3 and 4 Read MoreChapter One Ada is your sister, Mama Obinna said this to her son often. ‘Take this to your sister,’ she said, handing Obinna the black polyethylene bag that contained Ada’s …
Something Bigger Than Love – 1 and 2 Read MoreSIX Ihuoma finally opened her eyes. Chinelo heard her cough and rushed into the hut. She held Ihuoma at the shoulders. ‘Rest now, my dear. Rest.’ ‘Where is my baby?’ …
Ebubedike and the Desertlings of Uforo – 6 Read Moreby Zeus The Nigerian Government recently announced to pay all men with 5 children and above 1million Naira annual salary. Akpos heard the news and said to his wife, “Ekaette, …
Joke: Akpos And Kids Read Moreby Prosper Articles like this posted on DNB Stories represent only the views of the writer and not the opinion of DNB Stories. *** I am not one of those …
Musings: An Atheist Tale Read MoreTHREE It was just as she described. They got to the junction of three roads and followed left. Oye-Nta market, as usual, boomed with women. It was a market for …
Ebubedike and the Desertlings of Uforo – 3 Read Moreby Daniel Nkado Young Bisi folded herself at the foot of the couch, watching her parents arguing again. Mr. and Mrs. Ojo argued often, and never in lowered voices. Now …
What Bisi Should not Know – A Flash Story Read MoreONE Book written by Daniel Nkado He may have lived long ago, but tales of him will hardly ever depart our hearts. They were tales every grandfather told to their …
Ebubedike and the Desertlings of Uforo – 1 Read MoreFOURTEEN ‘Doctor, please show us to her,’ Loretta had said this in a calm voice despite the draught of impatience whirling up around her. And her sister too. The slim …
Love and Other Things that Follow – The End. Read MoreThis article was written by award-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first published on the New York Times. We call it light; “electricity” is too sterile a word, and “power” too …
Lights Out in Nigeria Read MoreChika climbs in through the store window first and then holds the shutter as the woman climbs in after her. The store looks as if it was deserted long before …
A Private Experience Read MoreSIX Didi picked the small pot of lip paint from her beauty basket lying next to her feet and removed the lid. She dipped into the pot and ran the …
Ola – The Tale of a Young Moon Maiden – 6 Read MoreRead The Village Girl – 1 here. ONE Anulika clapped again. ‘Nwamma!’ ‘Nwamma!’ She turned to the little boy playing with a toy car on the verandah floor. …
The Village Girl – 2 (Chapter One) Read More