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Who said marriage is dead?
After 28 years, Stuart Jeffries and his partner decided to tie the knot. It was to be a purely pragmatic exercise –…
It happened to my friend: The HIV/AIDS worry (3)
It was about the first time I thought the electricity authority did the best thing. They sent us to sleep. I knew…
When a child leaves the nest, how does it affect younger…
It’s five years since my eldest child left home, but now it’s that time of year again, the shops filled with…
Teenagers and social networking – it might actually be…
I ask a teenage girl, how often do you text? “250 times a day, or something,” she tells me. Shocking! The digital…
Is loyalty in the workplace dead?
Just last month, Lynda Gratton, a workplace expert, proclaimed... in The Financial Times, that it had been “killed…
When teenage, parental communication lines shut…
One cold night last August, Chinyere Nwangwu angrily ran out of her parents’ home. This is not the first time she…
When a child leaves the nest, how does it affect younger…
It’s five years since my eldest child left home, but now it’s that time of year again, the shops filled with…
What’s size got to do with it?
Found this Corporate Aunty Aunt letter on one of my favourite websites (cbswatch.com), made for an interesting…
It happened to my friend: The HIV/AIDS worry (2)
Straining my eyes a bit, I looked at the piece of paper now in my hand. I did not know when I blurted: ‘Ikenna, you…
… Of adoptees and lifelong scars
Funlola grew up in an environment strange from the one in which she was born. Her parents lived in Ghana before…
This whole visibility theory
I’ve been lucky, not blessed to have worked with more good bosses than dire ones. For two out of these, we went on…
It happened to my friend: The HIV/AIDS worry (1)
I had just come in tired after a long, hard day at work. I waded through a tight traffic. Quite amazing that…