WHEN you see Carl and Mary, all you think of is perfect romance. Carl is tall and handsome, very supportive…
Browsing: Funke Egbemode’s Column
LAST week’s piece, ‘The-next-of-kin’ generated a lot of interest. Why was Auntie Funke speaking for only women? Why don’t women…
ROSE is one of the women who suddenly became a widow as a result of the November 1996 crash of…
IT all started with an ambitious shopping list of a woman looking for a husband that my friend sent to…
NOBODY understands. How could she do it? Why did she do it after all these years? An affair after 25…
THE Yoruba have this saying: Oke oku l’oku nre Baba omo l’o l’omo Loose translation: A child will always look…
DAISY was born beautiful.Her mother received her with misty eyes.Her father felt so proud. After three boys, Manny was beginning…
SOMETIMES, a woman is just a glorified call girl, “olosho” , but she tells herself she’s in a relationship. She…
MONOGAMY is a tough call. One-man-one-woman can only be the title of a book, it can’t be law or most…
IT is God who gives babies. It is the God-assigned duties of parents to nurse and nurture those babies into…
SINCE last week, when I called the attention of men to the little-men-little-third-leg matter, I have heard things, many things.…
ARE you one of these husbands who punish their wives by depriving them of money? Yes, you are mean but…
IT’S been going on for years, maybe three, maybe more or less. Everybody expects the journey to culminate at the…
SHE has lost two children. One via miscarriage, the other through still-birth. They just couldn’t afford basic medical-care. So, when…
A PLAYBOY can play the field forever or till his penis drops off, or whichever one comes first. A play-girl?…
NOT having sex before marriage ought to be good. Restraining yourself from all that tantalizing stuff is tough alright, but…
ONE of the things I find most wondrous about God is the way He distributes children. Oh yes, I’m a…
I MET a woman, a mother-in-law in Jordan. I mean at the River Jordan while I was on pilgrimage to…
TO many, marriage is about love and passion. To others, it is an investment and to someone like me, it…
A YOUNGER friend of mine gave me a ride the other day and I learnt a lot from the experience.…