Verastic

July 9, 2020

Things You Should Say During Great Sex

So, the other day, I was scrolling through Facebook when I came across a post in a Facebook group that caught my attention. It was a lighthearted, funny post by a woman asking us (fellow women) the crazy things we had uttered out of our mouths during great sex. So, of course, I proceeded to read, and I was consequently entertained, humored, and eventually, distraught. I'll explain. The other day on the podcast, I mentioned simple things that I have never done but would like to do. Well, a few of Read More

July 6, 2020

A Conversation With An Openly-Gay Nigerian Man

I fantasized about my podcast for months. Technically, years. Ever since my live show, The Verastic Show stopped airing, I started thinking of other ways to have those conversations again, but it was the past several months that I really saw my podcast clearly. I knew what I wanted: I wanted to have authentic conversations --- like the one I had with this openly-gay Nigerian man. "I believe in asking the difficult questions, starting the uncomfortable conversations, proposing outside-the-box Read More

June 29, 2020

How Not To Say Yes When You Really Mean No

Even now, I'm wondering if How Not To Say Yes When You Really Mean No is the appropriate title for this. But it's too late to change it. The podcast has been recorded, edited, and published. Perhaps, what I really should have named it is How Not To Spend Your Energy On Things You Really Don't Want. Either way, I suppose there's still an element of saying yes or no to something. Listen and tell me your thoughts! You can also listen at any and all of the following Read More

June 15, 2020

Never Have I Ever [A Life Not Lived – Yet] (I Am African Podcast #15)

I played a game of Never Have I Ever on Zoom for Uju's birthday in April, and it got me thinking about a whole lot. Although I knew it before, this game became living proof that indeed I need to stop being so safe and live already. There is so much I still have not experienced. Half the year is already gone, but it does not mean I can't start where I am right now, right? The past three weeks have been very dark - and that's putting it mildly - so I deliberately chose this topic for this week's Read More

June 9, 2020

On The Rape Culture In Nigeria ft. Omolara Oriye (I Am African Podcast #14)

Sweet Potatoes, So much is going on in the world right now. And I'm tired of starting sentences like this, but how can I be tired when some people have a worse fate? My fellow Nigerian women have been raped and killed with no repercussions to the rapist because of the rape culture in Nigeria. In today's episode, I have the very smart and outspoken table-shaker, Omolara Oriya, an activist, human rights lawyer. We had a raw and authentic conversation about the rape culture in Nigeria, about the Read More

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