Cocomma's Diaries
Anecdotes, truths, and reflections from the heart of an AkwaCross second daughter – about life, identity and everything in between.
- Fine Girl, Big Discernment: Survival Tactics Beyond Words
- Your Desperation Makes You Unattractive
- Ghosting or Avoidance, Same Meaning, Not Interested
- Woman, You Were Made Whole
- Peaceful Men Do Not Need To Announce It
- I Regret It All
- Never Say Never
- Reading What Isn’t There
- Nigerian False Preachers: The Bible Does Not Give You Immunity
- Biafra Is Not My Freedom
- Food Has a Passport: Africa Is Not a Kitchen
- My Traumatic Experience with an Insecure Wife
- Nigeria Does Not Love Women
- Preparation in the Pit
- You Don’t Love That Child, You Just Refused to Think First
- Born Nigerian
- The Problem With Your Question About “Tribe”
- The Devil Takes the Blame, Nigerians Take Nothing
- Devout on Sunday, Different on Monday
- Not Now, Not Never
- Beyond Denominations
- When Silence Falls
- Scarcity Does Not Equal Value for Practicing Christians
- The Loneliness of Being Understood
- Where My Thoughts Go to Breathe
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Category: Culture and Identity
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I’ve been seeing a lot of women online sharing videos of themselves breaking down because they supposedly could not find a partner despite being successful, attractive, educated, or otherwise accomplished. What piqued my interest was their argument that they are well established, fulfilled, and content in their lives, yet still somehow missing this one piece.…
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A Traveller’s Perspective I do not understand why people always have so much misconception when it comes to anything African. My colleague kept inviting me to an “African” restaurant they found and wanted to try. I refused for the longest time because, as I mentioned to them, I did not know what African food meant.…