Ejiro Osilama
Ejiro Osilama has a BS degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Suffolk University in Boston. She is currently working on a compilation of works by the everyday African Female, tentatively titled: "African Me: Africa by it's women."
Articles by this Author
Don’t Insult The Crocodile
- By Ejiro Osilama
- Published 05/13/2007
- Miscellaneous
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I always thought that the whole talking in proverbs thing was something that only old people, but I was recently presented with an opportunity to use one...
My Black History
- By Ejiro Osilama
- Published 02/5/2007
- Life Abroad
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It is Black History Month. I do not in anyway wish to diminish African-American black history, but I believe that somewhere in the whole mess of history, African history has somehow gotten lost…
You are African?
- By Ejiro Osilama
- Published 01/16/2007
- Life Abroad
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“You are African? Cool, do you speak Swahili?”
“You are from Nigeria? Waoh. I know this guy from Nigeria too. He just got arrested.”
“You are from Africa? So you speak another language right? Like not English or French or like a real language though. Yeah? Cool. Say something.”
Either Here or There: Coming to America...
- By Ejiro Osilama
- Published 01/11/2007
- Life Abroad
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In America, I would always be the African girl who sounds different, looks different and just could never quite blend in. In Nigeria, I would become the American girl who could not speak pidgin and could not make ukodo, yet who insisted that she was Nigerian...
Abstinance Vs. Protection in Nigeria
- By Ejiro Osilama
- Published 01/4/2007
- Nigeria Matters
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Are we as a nation still naïve enough to believe that our teenagers and even adults will abstain from sex because their teachers tell them to, or because of a few ads on television?
