Journal Prompts: Questions That Make You Think A good journal prompt does not tell you what to think. It gives your mind somewhere to begin. It can take a simple question and turn it into a memory, a realisation, a difficult conversation, an old dream, a forgotten person, a new idea or even a story
I knew the holiday was going to be difficult, I just didn’t know it would be this difficult. My boyfriend and I had spent the final week of school complaining about the distance like two people who had just been informed that Nigeria and Ghana were now on different planets. “We won’t see each other
“You don’t need to know where the story is going before you write the first page.” Your first journal does not need a grand opening ceremony, it just needs a beginning. First Things First: There Is No Perfect Way to Begin Let’s get something out of the way, there is no universally correct first journal
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
“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
I didn’t sleep, not properly. I lay on my side of the bed, staring into the darkness, listening to the sound of my wife’s breathing. She was sleeping, or at least she appeared to be. I wasn’t. Her question kept repeating itself in my head. “If you are allowed to marry four wives, why have
I have never understood why weddings come with so many instructions…Smile…Don’t sweat…Don’t step on your dress…Don’t cry too much…Don’t cry too little…Don’t eat too much…Don’t drink too much…Don’t forget your bouquet…Don’t lose your earrings…Don’t let your makeup artist ruin your face…And, obviously… Don’t forget to greet dead people.Yes.Dead people.That was the instruction that nearly ruined
My friends have convinced me that I am not doing anything wrong. That is how this whole thing started. Maybe that is also how most men get themselves into trouble. They sit with their friends, everybody talks confidently, everybody has an example, everybody suddenly becomes a relationship expert, and before you know it, you are
An honest little conversation about masculinity, image, pressure, and the exhausting business of proving you are a man. I have a question. Actually, I have several, and I promise I am asking them because I genuinely want to understand. Nigerian men, who are you performing for?Who is sitting in the audience?Who is keeping score? Because
“The most important thing about a journal isn’t what it’s made of. It’s what you are willing to put inside it.” There is something almost ceremonial about opening a new notebook. The pages are clean, the cover is untouched, and there are no abandoned lists, unfinished thoughts, crossed-out sentences, or coffee stains staring back at