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Does Bride Price Buy a Wife or Bless a Marriage?
“I paid your bride price.”
And therefore… what exactly?
What comes after that sentence?
Ownership?
Authority?
Control?
Exclusive rights?
A lifetime subscription?
I genuinely want to know, because sometimes I wonder whether bride price is one of the most misunderstood cultural practices in Africa.
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Common Journaling Myths: Everything You Think You Need to Know Before You Start
“Perhaps the biggest myth about journaling is that you need to know how to journal before you can begin.”
There is something interesting about the blank page, it can make a perfectly intelligent person suddenly forget how to form a sentence. What if you’ve simply been carrying around too many myths about what journaling is supposed to look like?
Let’s clear a few of them up.
Chibuzor: The House With The For Sale Sign
A Diary of Family, Property and Impossible Choices.
Some families inherit wealth, others inherit questions.
When Chibuzor Okeke plants a “FOR SALE” sign outside his childhood home, he believes he’s doing what every responsible son should do.
Sell the ageing family compound, secure his parents’ retirement, travel abroad, build wealth, create opportunities and rescue everyone from a future of financial uncertainty.
But as neighbours gossip, strangers arrive with cash offers, church members whisper, and the entire extended family gathers beneath an old mango tree, one shocking truth begins to emerge:
A good plan is not the same as the right plan.
Told through deeply personal diary entries, Chibuzor: The House with the For Sale Sign is an emotionally gripping family drama about inheritance, ambition, love, control and the dangerous assumption that we always know what’s best for the people we love.
This is only the beginning.
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From The Diaries
“You cannot control outcomes. You can only improve decisions.”
“You cannot solve the problem your imagination has created.”
“Never abandon your assignment because of somebody else’s future.”
“Never confuse losing with failing.“
“Never underestimate a second half. It has rescued many lives.“
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