The Mortehn Expressions

I sit at my window sill and pick my nose. I know it's a bad habit but I can't just seem to stop. I sit there waiting for Adanne to burst in through the door like she always does just because she has an extra key. She doesn't ever knock and I often teased her that she would burst in to see me and the lover going at it one day. She scoffs whenever I say this. But Adanne is not going to burst in through that door, not anymore—not today, not tomorrow, not forever because Adanne was unalived at the last election that was conducted in my country.             Adanne is the perfect definition of larger than life. Never has anyone met Adanne who didn’t immediately love her. She has a wonderful way with people and is a master at weaving words together to construct beautiful sentences that kept her listeners enraptured to her. Adanne has skin the colour of caramel—very rich golden brown coloured skin that constantly glowed due to years of intense skin care routine and deep moistur

I wake up with a banging head. It’s the third day in a row, I have used Paracetamol and Dolo Meta-B repeatedly because I thought it had something to do with my eyes. I just got new glasses last week, it definitely isn’t because of the glasses or is it?   I get up from the bed and find my way to the kitchen. The sachet of Paracetamol lay there on the counter just beside the sink. I’m thinking, “should I take another dose or just go back to sleep?” I decide to go back to sleep. Perhaps if I try to sleep for a longer time, I’ll feel better when I wake up—I go back to bed.   I wake up at exactly 2p.m. Have I been sleeping all this time? Shit! I’ve missed my Saturday class for Yoga. I pick up my phone with the intention of apologising to my instructor on WhatsApp. I see the notifications—63 messages from 8 chats. I groan…. Arrrggghhh! Who are the people sending these messages? Can’t a girl be offline for a bit?   I ignore the messages and just send my apology to Chiks, my Yoga instr

“ You should eat more food and eat it often too, like six times in a day”, mum says to Tiwa my best friend. She is skinny and eats very little. She is the first person I have met who dislike food. I don’t know her favourite food because she never eats anything with delight. She eats sparingly. I am the exact opposite of Tiwa, I LOVE food! My mum is a great cook you see, and she makes all sorts of whatnots from the recipes she reads about in cookery books or those she gets from the internet. Everyone in my house has a healthy appetite and no one is skinny except my brother; my brother eats a lot but it does not reflect on his body which makes us tease him all the time. Tiwa is looking down at her toes, trying to hide the crooked smile on her lips. My friend always has that crooked smile on her face whenever my mum makes any of those remarks regarding her weight. I am not bothered about mum’s remark to my friend, I am busy behind the kitchen counter with a plate of five cookies resting

  Social media influencing is fast becoming a major aspect of marketing in Africa. This is because the billboard, television and radio advertisements are no longer getting the job done the way they used to back in the days. With regards to this article, I would like to use Nigeria which is the largest country in West Africa (with regards to population) as my case study. If we are to discuss the business of social media influencing in Africa, we would have to talk about everything that is involved in social media influencing such as: ·          What is social media influencing? ·          Who is a social media influencer? ·          What are the benefits of using social media influencers in advertising? ·          What are the different types of social media influencers that exist? ·          What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media influencing?   What is Social Media Influencing? Social media influencing is the use of certain influencers (mainly peopl

  I remember logging in to Instagram one fine Saturday morning and seeing one of the social media influencers that I follow telling her audience about how she went for a spa treatment after being stressed for a long time. She mentioned that she did facials and had a general body massage. She went ahead to list the benefits of spa treatments and encouraged her followers to go for massage treatment once in a while. It is in this light that I would like to expatiate on how spa can improve our chances of getting better health for ourselves. For the purpose of this article, let us look at spa treatment as one of the steps to assuaging stress. According to an article on medlineplus.com, “stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension”. Stress inhibits the human ability to function properly. The person who is undergoing stress will not be able to perform his daily tasks and this may lead to a break down in the person’s health if something is not done about it. Let’s imagine that D

    Andela is a company that seeks to identify, select and train software engineers and developers. Its headquarters is in the United States of America and it has African branches in Lagos, Kampala, Kigali and Nairobi. Its branch in Lagos, Nigeria was launched in 2014. What they do is that they look out for talented software engineers and developers and groom them for companies around the world through trainings in order to eradicate the problem of tech staff inadequacy and build strong and excellent tech teams. They also partner with other tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Pluralsight, Microsoft and so on in order to assist in training the members of staff in their tech departments. The Andela tech team being a member of partner companies is a guarantee for huge business growth. Over two hundred thousand (200,000) engineers and above have been recruited by Andela from across the African continent for several companies. It is worthy of note that they recruit their engine