One day, I received a WhatsApp message from a friend of mine. He sent me a list of girls’ numbers, and the message read, “Bro, go wild. These ones are …
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The Way My Sister-in-Law Behaved After I Gave Birth Still Haunts Me
I’m in a state of confusion right now. I’m a married woman with a 3-year-old child and currently pregnant with my second. My mother passed away three weeks before I …
How My Marriage Took The Lives Of My Dad And My Only Sister
On my traditional wedding day, I found a needle, three dry leaves, and a piece of red fabric under the seat I sat on. The leaves were inside the fabric …
God Sent This Woman To Be My Angel
That day, my phone was very busy. A lot of people were calling me, sending me messages and all that. I think she had sent me a message, but I …
She Was My Closest Friend Until I Told Her I Loved Her
Linda and I met through a WhatsApp group created by our school after we gained admission to one of the public universities in Ghana in 2019. That was the beginning of …
My Husband Takes Intimate Photos Of My Sister When She’s Asleep
My sister is on campus. She is a first-year university student. I have a baby, and her school is not far from home, so she comes around on weekends to …
I Let A Good Man Go Because His Head Is Just As Big As Mine
My twin sister is beautiful. Unlike me, she doesn’t have a big head. Unlike her, I was bullied because of my head throughout my childhood. According to my great aunt, …
My Neighbour Thinks He Can Use Me Because I’m a Single Mother
There’s this neighbour of mine who recently broke up with his girlfriend and started talking to me. It became an everyday thing. Sometimes he would bring drinks, sometimes small gifts …
My Grandmother’s Past Has Brought My Family Bad Luck
My grandmother’s past has brought my family bad luck. Livestock farming is one of the main occupations of my community here in Kenya. People have built wealth through this. Those …
He Hired Me for ‘Happy Endings’, Now He Wants A Serious Relationship
It was my madam who introduced me to home services. I didn’t like it. I was often scared, but I got a lot of money from home services. It came …
How Can We Remove My Boyfriend From That Bottle?
My boyfriend of two years recently confessed to me that he believes he has been bewitched. He’s a truck driver. He works very hard. There is not a day when …
STOP Spoiling My Beautiful Name
My name is Akosua Kuma. I was named after my father’s mother. This is a name I have a special connection with because of how great my granny was. Over …