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SHADES OF WOMEN By: Shukroh Laide Busari

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Pic: Women's Issue Centre  Just in my wildest dreams will I think I know the different or unique characteristics of women in all? Although, the gender is one but the unique traits and characteristics embedded in them are different. Can you believe we have the possessive ones, the indecisive ones, the materialistic ones, the over-submissive ones, and the religious ones, to mention but just a few. But, with these traits, they are the perfect definition of what we called women. They are created for a reason and even, they are so unique that they are given a chapter in an holy book. What a huge recognition. So, stay still till I tell you about these shades of creation with their inbuilt trait. THE POSSESSIVE ONES Have you ever seen a woman fight? God! They fight till the very end to get what they want. These species of the feminine gender can go a thousand miles to get whatever they wanted. Take, for instance, a woman who has not been lucky with men and eventually meets her prince char...
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Download The Ninth Crescent by Moshkur Ajikobi

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The Ninth Crescent is a collection of Ramadan-themed poems that takes us through the noble month of Ramadan through a linguistic painting of the nobility of the prestigious month. Click  here  to download, read and enjoy! 
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Download Stars Fade Away by Moshkur Ajikobi

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Hijab is not just a conventional wear, it is spiritual. Allah, on His mighty throne, commands the Muslim women to wear for many beneficial reasons beyond the petty reasoning of the islamophobes. Stars Fade Away is a fictional work that takes us through the life of a Hijab sister who struggles between wearing the Hijab out of Allah's command and out of his husband's love.  I know you already want to devour the words each page of the story book carries, but relax and calm down. Then, click  here  to read and enjoy while you come back here to drop your comments because I need them. 
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I Know What Adulthood Means

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The pressure is real. You want to possess a good life. You had reasonable plans: Bagging the first degree at 22; securing the dream job at 23; having your own family at 25; and becoming a PhD holder before 30. But here you're, at 27, under your father's roof. Still stretching your hands for pocket money. Life happens. You'll be 30 and the first degree isn't yet bagged. Plans change.  You're determined to achieve everything before 40. But the pressure is becoming unbearable. The urge to join the young money ritualists tiptoes into your skull. A 22-year-old boy lives in a decorated mansion and you sleep in a face-me-and-slap-you house. The boy uses the most expensive iPhone but you use Nokia torch. The boy shops for his girlfriend and friends and you're still single; no lady wants to befriend your poverty-stricken pocket. The pressure is weakening you.  You're not a lazy lad but life paints you a slothful bastard. You're shy to ask from people but hunger i...
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Download GREATNESS (an anthology) by Quadri Soliu

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Everyone is entitled to greatness but only few people make that choice. Greatness is a matter of choice; it's either you live it or leave it. Click  HERE  to download! Read, enjoy, and send your feedback. 
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THE MOTHER OF NATIONS

& after a bite from the fruit,  the finger of blame was pointed at her,  our archbishop told us: she'd have to discharge her own blood  through a painful pain that no one could grasp— a lovely anguish that no one would care about.  she'd give birth to her own gender— they'd share from her punishment,  she'd give birth to another gender— the ones that'd maltreat her and blame her again  for the bite from the fruit,  for the periodic discharged blood,  for the post-partum pain,  for everything, everything, every time.  she'd stay strong… she'd have to…  she is a woman—the mother of nations. — P-SEVEN
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Download RO'UNAQAH (a short story), by the author of Illegal, Moshkur Ajikobi.

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  Ro'unaqah is a protagonist who detests her former filthy way of life and practises Islam accordingly, but to her surprise, an unexpected antagonist stands against her. Find out yourself, who the antagonist is,  here.
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