LOUD WHISPERS: The ‘Motifaketional’ Gang
By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I wrote this essay two years ago. I am sharing this again because ‘Motifaketion’ continues to plague us at every turn ‘Motifaketion’’: The manipulation of vulnerable and gullible people under the guise of motivating them to greatness. Motifaketors are usually devoid of integrity, common sense and accountability. There have been a number of videos in circulation […]
LOUD WHISPERS: AND WE WONDER WHY
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Did the girl lie?Did she make it up?Did she fantasize?Did she hallucinate?Did she have a target in mind to pin it on?Maybe she is lyingPerhaps she told the truthIf she lied, that is terrible Real victims get to be victims all over againIf she told the truthReal victims still continue to be victimsAnd […]
LOUD WHISPERS: ‘WOMEN ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY’- TEN WAYS TO PROVE THIS SAYING WRONG
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi A while ago, I watched a video online, in which a woman was calling out another woman for not being a ‘proper widow’. This young widow is an Event Planner who is now the sole bread winner of her family. She wiped her tears and summoned the energy to leave her home and […]
LOUD WHISPERS: ALAINITIJU (The Shameless)
‘When the tortoise is heading on a senseless journey and you say to him, ‘brother Tortoise, brotherTortoise, when will you be wise and come back home?’The tortoise will sing, ‘My brother, not until I have been disgraced, not until I have been disgraced,disgraced, disgraced, not until I have been disgraced’ We were all taught right […]
LOUD WHISPERS: All Things Bright and Beautiful
It is going to be a long year If the first month is anything to go by This promises to be a year when a month happens in a day Joy, happiness, triumph, victory, glory, celebration Grief, pain, devastation, loss, heartbreak, betrayal All things bright and beautiful All things horrible, terrible, ghastly, shocking, They all happen to us And to others Especially […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Prophecies For 2026
In 2017, I wrote a Loud Whispers essay called, ‘Prophecies and Common Sense’, and that is how I started my side hustle as a Prophetess. My Ministry has been doing quite well, and I am grateful to all those who have opened their ears and wallets. I hereby offer my predictions for 2026. Remember, all […]
LOUD WHISPERS: A Prayer For The New Year
For the lives cut short by guns, machetes, disease, hunger.and the dangers on land, air and seaA prayer for eternal rest from this sinful worldFor those who live but might as well be deadA prayer for restorationFor those with broken hearts, minds and spiritsA prayer for long-lasting healingFor innocent children wandering the streets without a […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Digital Bandits
If you use your keyboard and ring light as weapons to terrorise peopleIf you steal someone’s peaceIf you launch unprovoked attacksIf you manufacture stories from nowhereIf you are in the business of smoke without fireIf you raid the integrity of an innocent personIf you bear false witnessIf you destroy lives and reputationsIf you hold the […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Beijing Plus 30 Women’s Summit
On December 10th, Amandla Institute for Leadership and Policy Advancement, in collaboration with AWLN-Nigeria and Womanifesto, organised a Beijing plus 30 Women’s Summit in Abuja. The event brought together women from government, civil society and the private sector. The Summit featured conversations with women who attended the Beijing conference as well as younger women who […]
A TALE OF TWO CONCERTS
The videos kept popping up online. Joyful people of all ages and races, but mostly Nigerian, singing excitedly at the top of their voices at a concert in London. They seemed to have had a blast. They were all there to see OLAMIDE, the famous Afrobeats superstar. Olamide owns a major record label in Nigeria, […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Gold Diggers & Cradle Snatchers
A few years ago, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who was about to get married for the second time. My friend, who I will call Becky, was in her late-forties. Her fiancé was a widower, let us call him Mr Ben, and was approximately ten years older than her. On […]
LOUD WHISPERS: The Colour Pink
It probably all started with an innocent fondness of former US First Lady Maime Eisenhower for the colour pink. It was said she loved pink so much that she wore it at every opportunity, including a pink gown with 2,000 pink rhinestones for her husband’s inauguration, and he in turn sent her pink flowers every […]
MENTAL HEALTH DAY AND DAY OF THE GIRL-CHILD
I have often wondered why Mental Health Day and the Day of the Girl Child fall on the same day, October 10th. Commemorative days are important, because they provide opportunities for grassroots mobilisation, high-level advocacy, sensitisation and awareness raising and media visibility. Where appropriate, these events also serve to amplify the voices of survivors. The […]
LOUD WHISPERS: If You Want To Live Long
If you want to live long Master the art of counting one to ten whenever someone upsets you If you are still not calm after ten Count to twenty If you want to live long Know where witches and wizards live They don’t live in your village It is not your stepmother or mother-in-law I […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Oluwanisola! Celebrating Dr Hakeem Jamiu (KIMOO) @60
It gives me great pleasure to pay tribute to Dr Hakeem Jamiu (a.k.a Oluwanisola), member, State House of Assembly, Ekiti State, as he joins the Diamond Club. I have known Dr Hakeem Jamiu for at least twenty-one years. Even though he has had a much longer relationship with my husband, HE Dr Kayode Fayemi (JKF) […]