PostsCommentsPayoutsgojosator (58)in The Ink Well • 2 hours agoThe North Beneath the ApplauseThe early morning Harmattan dust filled Amara’s lungs and the lens of her camera. It was the perpetual state of the North Eastern part of Nigeria, a land simultaneously ancient and brutally modern, wheregojosator (58)in Reflections • 3 days agoWe dont we learn from history?Well, I believe it is simply because we learn so little from our own lives. Think of how many times you have made the same mistakes, yet fail to remind yourself that those mistakes are bad for you. Thegojosator (58)in Reflections • 4 days agoQuestioning Authority: Disrespect or Necessary Growth?In Nigeria, there's a saying that goes, "What an elder sees sitting a child cannot see even while standing." However, this saying often translates to an unquestioning respect for elders, whichgojosator (58)in The Ink Well • 5 days agoA Government of Dry TapsThe Government forced arrived one dusty Harmattan morning with uniforms, and a very straight face. They gathered the town beneath the old umbrella tree(as it was called) and explained that water was nowgojosator (58)in Reflections • 6 days agoThe Children Born Into No ChoicesThis is one of those topics that feels uncomfortable to talk about precisely because it sits somewhat uncomfortable between compassion and inequality. The moment you raise it some people assume you aregojosator (58)in Reflections • 7 days agoRaising Children and not Report CardsGrowing up, I always heard people say “every student can learn” so often that it began to sound like a fact rather than an opinion. Teachers and lecturers said it during assemblies, and it was even mygojosator (58)in Reflections • 9 days agoReproductive Rights: Why Do They End at Male Biology?This is gonna be kind of controversial or not depending on who reads it but nonetheless here goes.Im gonna start by saying that in most cases if the woman wants to keep the baby, she can. I believe thatgojosator (58)in The Ink Well • 10 days agoThe Space Between Floors(F)I remember it like it was just yesterday. Sunlight on the table. Eating and drinking. Champagne-vibe music drifting through the room. It felt like a dream, but it wasn’t. He made me shrimp and some kindgojosator (58)in The Ink Well • 11 days agoTime, TakenIbi felt she had made a mistake the moment the words had left her mouth. “I need time to myself to think about my future,” she said. She said those words over a year ago and, at the time, she meant them.gojosator (58)in The Ink Well • 15 days agoA Day in the Life(FICTION)By the time Moses had walked for about one hour under the sun he was already exhausted, he already knew he was in trouble. It sat in his pocket and weighed almost nothing, the coins. A few coins knockinggojosator (58)in Reflections • 16 days agoFirst Flight, First Lagos experienceI remember this happening when i was in my first year of university, i was supposed to take the flight to Abuja from Lagos but i had to travel to Lagos first from school first . It was my first time andgojosator (58)in Reflections • 17 days agoThe Japa/Migration ConversationThe migration conversation, popularly called Japa in Nigeria has for quite some time in Nigeria moved far beyond jokes and hashtags, it has become a lived reality that shapes how I see my past and my present.gojosator (58)in Reflections • 20 days agoA Conversation...................Yesterday turned out to be more memorable than I expected considering it was a anticipated stressful day, that i just wanted to go smoothly and end, when I went to sign and submit my project work at school.gojosator (58)in Freewriters • 23 days ago15 December 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2952: the next depression For Gen Z in Nigeria, it arrived like a bad network signal. One day you could refresh your screen and see opportunity and the next day, everything loaded endlessly and nothing appeared. Jobs promised ingojosator (58)in Freewriters • 24 days ago14 December 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2951: a dreaded report The report cards used to arrived every thursday, thick papers, put inside brown envelopes, sealed with the school emblem like a warning. From the moment the class prefect began calling names, a heavinessgojosator (58)in Freewriters • 28 days ago10 December 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2947: the other waiterThere was this small restaurant I visited almost every morning, on my way to work partly for the tea they brewed, but mostly because of “her” the other waiter. She wasn’t the one calling out orders orgojosator (58)in Freewriters • last month3 December 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2940: one minute left The hall was silent except for the scratching of pens and the ticking of the wall clock. Tunde stared at the final question, the one he had avoided for the past two hours. His mind was blank completely,gojosator (58)in Freewriters • last month2 December 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2939: a session musician Kunle “Strings” Adeyemi was the force behind countless Lagos hits, every cast had his name in it, but buried deep amongst those acknowledged but no one ever looked that deep, he was a session musiciangojosator (58)in Freewriters • last month30 November 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2937: impound the ship!The sun had almost set, it was now orange in the sky over Alexandria’s harbor, reflecting on the British gunboat drifting in like an unwelcome bad omen. Fishermen paused, merchants stopped haggling, andgojosator (58)in Freewriters • last monthZapFic Friday - SteepRain hammered the rusted roof as pops stared at the ledger. Debts climbed like kilimanjaro mountain with no way down. But when his young daughter slipped a crayon drawing into his hand, two figures holding
