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Sometimes, I want to give up. It’s not that I don’t want to try. It’s that I’m tired of trying. Exhausted from giving 110% with what feels like pennies in return. I want to be rich… like,  yesterday . I want the bio to read “Published Author” with all the accolades, TEDx invites, and industry panels lined up after that. But here’s the kicker: real success - creative, emotional, financial - takes time. And when you’re a creative entrepreneur, especially one doing deep inner wo

“You don’t look like you earn £10,000 a month.”Someone once commented this under her Instagram post. She paused. What, exactly, does someone who earns £10,000 a month look like ?Should she be draped in Chanel from head to toe, suffocating in Dior, with hair down to her ankles… just to prove that a few extra zeros live in her bank account? That didn’t sit right with her. And honestly, it didn’t sit right with me either. This week, I sat down with an extraordinary woman: Joy Da

Abi Morocco, British Journal of Photography “You may be 30+ years old but I can still spank you! Remember that” , my Aunty said. We were talking about dresses. Or something else mundane like the best Nigerian soup of all time or whether Idris Elba was really that fine. But whatever her opinion was in the topic, I differed strongly. Very strongly. And I guess that meant I needed reminding that she could spank me, even though this has never happened in my lifetime. Light-hearte

By now, most people would have binge-watched the Diddy documentary over the holidays. As horrifying as it was, I could not turn my eyes away from the screen. I have so many questions. First off, what did your mama do to you to make you hate women so much? How were you manipulating systems, people and sexual abuse before you hit 20? What really happened to you Diddy? But the second shocker for me (asides from his heinous acts of course), was how sympathetic the jury seemed to

The first time I tried reimagining my life, I felt completely lost. Helpless even. My destiny as a lawyer had been pre-mapped for me the minute I showed any interest in humanities — it was the only logical conclusion. If I liked to read or write, law was the only possible thing I could do with my life.