Until I did a quick Google search, I had no idea that the melancholy and anxiety I feel on my birthday, December 15th, is known as birthday depression or birthday blues. I honestly have no idea when I first started feeling down on my birthday, but I know it was…

A Lazy Writer’s Guide to Achieving Your 2022 Writing Goals Writing is something I enjoy doing and have done so for as long as I can remember. However, as much as I confess my love for expressing myself through writing, the fact that I have yet to achieve all of…

If Fela were a Hollywood star, he would be known as the “Hollywood Sweetheart” because of how much he is adored by the public. Although, now that I think about it, referring to Fela as a “sweetheart” diminishes the force that he is. …

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.” On today’s Episode of Bow to Pressure and Read That Book!, …

While creating the protagonist in her debut novel, Raven Leilani revealed in an interview that she was bent on creating a character that was not a “pristine neatly moral character.” …

Yejide Kilanko’s debut novel, Daughters Who Walk This Path is a searingly beautiful story. Set in Ibadan Nigeria, with a timeline spanning the 70s to the 2000s. Daughters Who Walk This Path touch on very important subjects that people in society prefer to sweep under the carpet. The book begins…

I had a dream last night that I was back in boarding school and that terrorists had infiltrated my school and attacked us. I can’t even begin to describe how terrified I was. My fear of a terrorist attack was recently heightened after I read Adaobi Tricia Uwaubani’s book Buried…

Queenie piqued my interest not only because it was one of the most anticipated books of 2019 and people couldn’t stop talking about it on Bookstagram/BookTube, but also because of the beautiful book cover. This highly celebrated book- Queenie is the debut novel of British writer, Candice-Carty Williams. The…