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Essays • Stories • Technical writing
I write across genres, from fiction and personal essays to nonfiction and technical writing. I love telling and retelling stories, exploring ideas, and putting things into words to make sense of them. Whether I'm writing, editing, or documenting something I've learned, I'm drawn to the process of making things clearer and easier to understand.
Essays, stories, and technical notes. A growing collection of things I have written and learned.
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I’m Oluwafemi Jacob, My surname literally translate to “God loves me” and honestly I can’t agree less. The worst moments of my life didn’t arrive in a thunderclap. They crept in slow, soft, and polite until they owned everything.
For a while now, I’ve had just one question that I haven’t been able to get out of my head, Why is everyone so serious? Not serious in the “focused” way, or serious in the “building your life” way. I mean serious in the way that feels heavy, tight. Almost performative and routine based.
It’s not news that Lagos has an interesting relationship with commitment. I know it’s bad every where but it’s 10x worse in Lagos, We ghost, We orbit, We lovebomb, We “see where things go”, We insist we’re “just having fun”, we’ve mastered the art of acting like we’re not in relationships while accidentally behaving like we’re in one the way others don’t.
She stood still, her palms cupped over her nose and mouth as she watched his lifeless body bleed out. His blood, meandering from his body and paving its path through the white tiles. The clink from the drop of the knife jolted her back to life. She had just killed a man, her ex.