An African Countess' Blog

By Lauretta Eloho Malaka. Her face shaped like a heart reminds me of a lionness , and bet you, she's one. A lionness is a hunter, a protector, and very intuitive. She's a "girl with the heart of a ministering angel and nerves of steel". I met Iyanu , my  # WCW , fondly called Countess PIA, when preparing for SAT a decade ago (*whew* how time flies). She gave me the name co-hostess, the day we were returning from IB after our SAT exams. We were trying to play "bus-hostess" to our colleagues telling them the ir present location etc. Since then our relationship has not died, even if we don't talk often or see (mehn! She's a busy bee).  Let's skip all that rumbling and lemme tell you why she's my crush:  1)She has 100% selflove: she values herself. Why shouldn't she? God told her "you are wonderfully and fearfully made". She and God are like 5 and 6, she has displaced John the Beloved. Just imagine the ki...

I recently returned from Zanzibar; beautiful, beautiful Island. It was a dream. Our hotel was on the beach, my friends and I were the only African tourists there. We had a tour guide, went everywhere, ate all manner of food, had a massage (the very best) and some boat cruise adventure. In fact, there was some snorkeling as well... (my friends helped put my head under the water for a few seconds to see what life was like there, and then I was cheering for them the rest of the time..LOL). Stunning place, Zanzibar! Then 2 months later, I had cause to go to Kaduna for a week on an official assignment. While I was there, I found out that the famous Kajuru Castle was close by. Of course, I had to pay a visit. Goooosshhhh I can't describe how that place made me feel. I was giddy with joy, I felt like a little girl, like a princess in a castle... And then, just a week later, I was on a Dubai-bound plane... In December, I spent my 5-day Christmas holiday at Obudu Cattle Ranch and...

What I miss the most(est) about being in a relationship is having someone who is obligated to have long conversations with me; conversations about, well, any and everything. Ah mean, in real life, who cares about random things like what my colleague said to my other colleague at work today, and how my boss had to intervene, AND how I started to crave amala at 7am, AND what I did to make the MD summon me just as I was about to leave the office, AND how that dude, the weird one from primary school called from out of the blues, AND how I had a flat tire on 3rd Mainland Bridge on my way home and how a nice man helped to change it... Who cares mehn? Absolutely no one; except a partner who either genuinely cares or would at least sweetly feign interest. I like to talk about the day and I love to listen too; I have one or two people around me who I sometimes rant to when the urge gets intense but most of the time, I'm hesitant because I try to be considerate and then t...

That song says '...just like a single word can make a heart open...' (Fight song - Rachel Platten) Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. It is a double-edged sword. We can choose to use this force constructively with kind words of encouragement, or destructively using hateful acidic words. The same song says '...I might only have one match (tongue, in this case) , but I can make an explosion...'

That song says 'there are some things you can't put on a paper' (My Kind of Perfect -David Archuleta).  Love is one of such things ... Whatever the case, one thing I know is that Love picks the W over Hate any day.  Hate is a really strong force. Very strong...like fire. Just take a minute to think of all the havoc fire can wreck in a short period of time. But love is still a stronger force. Just like water is a stronger force than fire. Fire is easy to smother, needs fuel to keep burning, and has only one state of matter. Water, on the other hand, is hard to get rid of and has multiple states of matter. Even in fiction, Ice-man (with water-based powers) defeated Human-Torch (with fire-based powers)... Like water, a lot of us are yet to experience L O V E in all its fulness and glory. In the real sense of it though, the only way to experience this love we speak of is to encounter the Embodiment of Love, Jesus #selah. 'Never forget that the most powe...

I need your help... I feel particularly unhappy today, been feeling this way for the past 3 days at least... I like food, so when I feel this way, I would usually take myself out to binge-eat, and pack on all the calories, even if it's with my l ast-card (all the money I have left) but this time, I have zero appetite. ...And then I caught the flu... arrrgghhh I have had a really tough past couple of weeks at work and in my life as a whole. Well, as the 'absorber' that I am,  azzziiinnn  odeishi-dusted,  I have taken it in my strides (if I do say so myself);  but then this flurry of emotions have suddenly erupted... As much as we all want up-up days all the time, some days are just, you know, like this... The topic of this article is a line from one of my favorite songs 'my kind of perfect' by David Archuleta and I have no idea why it is the topic. Something like 'A Cry For Help' or 'SOS Call' would have been more apt, but er...

Words of a socialmedia purist - Lauretta Malaka It'd been a long day of volleying words in the boardroom. I was glad to be out. I headed for the bus stop. I was just in time. As I got on the bus, I was so relieved that my favorite seat at the centre row close to the window was empty. I sank into the seat exhausted. I plugged in my earphones and allowed Sam Smith to pour soothing music into my eardrums. I looked out the window (feeling like I'm in a music video) watching vendors trying one last time to market their wares before the bus picks up speed. As the bus eased into the traffic, I decided to log into Facebook to know what's new with my friends and check out the latest posts from pages I've liked.