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This Life of Many Failings | Tolu DanielÂ
image by The John DurodolaÂ
The age of twenty one had me dreaming and singing about winning and having a full life in front of me like the Hebrew boy in the Bible called Joseph. At every given chance, I’d sing the song of breaking records to my siblings who would look on at me with smiling faces probably hiding their disdain for my incessant yammering.
It was simple, I had finished university…
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You are an Alien In Your Body | An Essay | Tolu Daniel image culled from Google. An essay on the relationship between the body and our memories recently published on The Magunga by Tolu Daniel. You can read it on the link below.
The Unkindness of Ravens | Tolu DanielÂ
Image from Expound MagazineÂ
A Short Story by Tolu Daniel recently published on Expound Magazine. You can read it via the link below.Â
http://expoundmagazine.com/unkindness-ravens-tolu-daniel/
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My Legendary Uncle and Other Awful MemoriesÂ
This short story was recently published in two different Internet locations and two different countries. It’s been exciting watching one’s work grow legs by itself and make leaps from continent to continent.Â
Please find the links belowÂ
The Wagon Magazine Chennai https://t.co/zU2LMazX6B andÂ
Nthanda Review, Malawi
https://t.co/wBPsZbO8zr Enjoy.Â
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The Night of Shadows| A Photo Essay | Tolu DanielÂ
Last night, the lights from the skies—both artificial and terrestial—aligned in our favor and we made magic. I have always wondered about shadows, but never have I been able to document it in a photograph.
In the following pictures, I will introduce you to the many shapes of shadows we made last night and the beautiful conversations that happened while we were making them.
This reminds me of a…
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Asking The Right Questions | Tolu DanielÂ
It seems these days, that terrorism has adopted a new name. It has taken up a new identity and it is wielding a power we never knew it had in the first place.
Yesterday, around the afternoon while the sun was reclaiming the space the rain had taken up in the early hours of the day, I stumbled upon a video of the Nigerian National team and their struggle to win the 1996 Olympic football gold…
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The Night I Saw A Man fly| Tolu DanielÂ
I have had a rough couple of weeks,  sorting myself through two scorpion bites and a strength draining bout with Malaria. In between those moments,  I have also been lucky to make journeys back and forth from Lagos to Abeokuta and learnt of the many things that we as people are doing to each other that dehumanizes us at every given moment. I have been duped and threatened with violence on more…
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The Dark Road to Calabar | Tolu DanielÂ
Recently a nonfiction piece of mine with the above title was published on Bakwa Magazine, so I decided to share bits of it here with links to the original essay just below. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. ​It was dark. Everywhere was clothed in a sea of black, aside from the painful streak of blurry headlights that illuminated the road. Half of the people in our bus…
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Moment| Flash Fiction| Tolu DanielÂ
Some time ago,  this flash fiction piece was published. You can read it here Moment by Tolu Daniel – http://wp.me/p8iLvm-8s Regards.Â
Tolu.Â
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Where Is Home? Â | Questiining Duisplacement | Tolu DanielÂ
In my room,  just beside the shelf that houses my treasure drove—my books—there is a plain wall recently decorated with a newspaper clipping. A picture of a woman walking on a deserted road, facing north,  backing the camera.  A baby on her back and what appears to be a few of her belongings neatly stacked together on her head. There are skeletons of Okada and burnt vehicles lining the single…
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The Case for Black Identity | An Essay on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between The World and Me | Tolu DanielÂ
The Case for Black Identity | An Essay on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between The World and Me | Tolu DanielÂ
Sometime in 2009, I and my friend Opeoluwa stood at the brink of death in the hands of younger gun totting students of our university.  At the time, we were final year students  and were on our ways home after a very stressful day in school. At those moments, with the boys barking  orders and questions about who we were at us, I considered a number of things, one of which was a phrase I would…
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What The Bloody Hell | Tolu DanielÂ
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When Grandfather died, he died in my arms, not because we were close or because I was his favorite grandson—if he ever had a favorite grandson. It was an unfortunate happenstance. His large, rugged head sprawled haplessly on my shoulders as he collapsed and died while he was trying to teach me a lesson—a lesson about how I shouldn’t talk back whenever he reprimands me—that rebounded on him and…
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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma | A Review | Tolu DanielÂ
The Fishermen is the story of four brothers (Ikenna, Boja, Obembe and Benjamin) whose lives are destroyed by an encounter with Abulu, a madman whose terrible prophecies of people in Akure, a city in south-western Nigeria where they live, have come to be held as true.
Reading through the book, few  things stood out about the writer, he had a thing for powerful first lines and his ability…
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On Writing and the Sound of Things | A conversation with Emmanuel Iduma and Tolu DanielÂ
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This conversation began as a thought, the kinds that linger longer than necessary because of a fear, the fear of beginning something inexhaustible. I have met Emmanuel Iduma a few times in the last two years and in those times, our conversations have stretched the limits of time. So you can imagine.
We’d talk long into the night or day as the case may be and exchange ideas. From politics to…
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I enjoyed the company of these men so much I found my tongue loosened and my mouth running about shit I didn't know I knew with respects to African Literature. (at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library)
Books We Read: 11 Readers On Reading in 2016 | Tolu DanielÂ
Some books can be excitable, yet not exert the kind of force or the kind of power to accord them the honour of prizes or notable mentions. Yet any book, good or bad, excellent or average is a function of a selective bias either from the perspective of the readers or judges of prizes. I remember reading a review of E. L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey in 2014 and almost basing my decision about…
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