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Keep moments of gold!
We are some of us made of gold. We pass through fire and never fold. Not when the fire was expected, the deepest kinds. We saw it, circled it with all our might, then let it burn us. If we don’t burn, we stay. If we burn, we let all the pain seep deeply within…
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Keep all the ways we prevent and end HIV for girls and women!
We spent the day remembering Hydeia Broadbent, remembering the first time we learnt about HIV, remembering lessons, if any, we remember about preventing it for ourselves and other girls and women like us. Today is National HIV/AIDS awareness day for girls and women and so we spent the day remembering all those who have paved…
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Keep the fearless legacy of Herbert Wigwe, Chizoba and Chizzy Wigwe.
To be so fearless in life and death, to still be fearless even when death seems to have the last say, is the legacy many of us wish we keep long after we die. I never knew the man. But like so many, I have been so spellbound by his life and death. The past…
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Keep dreaming and dreaming again!
I begin from a space, that I hope you will one day use as your own. A space that is transitional is nature, a work in progress too. In August if 2021, we got an early morning text that stated that my sister-in law had died from cervical cancer. My memory of that day is…
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Keep knowing all creativity is local, all healing is local too.
We stood there, my team and I, with a single purpose we stood. To say all creativity is local. All healing too. We spoke and spoke and spoke, until, suddenly, with clarity, the dreams became clear. A hundred day journey begins with a day. The leaves may rustle. Lizards may climb high. Through joy and…
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Keep what is local!
All creativity is local. I am seeing that with each passing day. All creativity as far as the eyes can see, is local. We bought a bag of Africa Star Apples today. Udara as it’s fondly called and I gladly ate the whole bag proudly as all fruits are local. What if we did the…
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Keep all that makes your language vibrant!
I’m in the city that never sleeps. Its skies are always soothing to me. There are three main languages spoken, hundreds more if you really want to dig deeper. I sat across a girl who spoke a language that sounded like music to my ears today. I couldn’t make out anything but I listened just…
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Keep this bloom and blaze!
Somethings bloom and blaze on their own. Things full of boundless possibilities. A blue sea. A glowing moon. A mother’s milk. A circle of close people. Anything with a sense of endurance, will find a way to bloom and blaze all on its own. I’m in a space with the one who saves, who reminds…
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Keep Peace!
I remember the name. My eyes were drawn to the colors. A white bird draped in blue with a round circle with a blue hole perched on its wings. I remember the name, Peace. They say it stood for peace. The bird seemed to sing with ease. The skies looked on with glee. Believing in…
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Keep this gathering of women with eyes tiny like us!
I’m inspired by the feast of women I saw the other day. Those black like me. Those that begin from the womb and continue long past a day. I know our imperfections are nothing, that our light is everything, that we gather loving those we would give our everything. I have seen where women build…
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Keep love!
Love springs from somethings. Sometimes a whisper, a warm embrace, a simple card, all can pull a heart and make it leap. The idea of a day dedicated to love has always kept me alive. Partly because I remember how love came to be for me. I remember its first touch, its first kiss, its…
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Keep living beyond yourself!
I finally shared the courage award to the one who gave birth to Angie the other day. At first I was apprehensive. What would she say? Would she even approve? It’s her daughter after all and what right do I have to tell her story my way. To my surprise she cried. She kept thanking…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 