MUDA had four wives. To their neighbours, all was well. There was never any noise of fight from their expansive…
Browsing: Funke Egbemode’s Column
HOW many times have you thought about calling it quits with your marriage, a thousand and one times? There is…
THE first thing I noticed was her hair. She had gone almost completely gray.Her skirt suit hung on her, shapeless.…
IT all started with Kunle pretending to be thinking aloud. “I wish we can all go back to the Garden…
TODAY I’m worried about men of God, wet matchboxes and the fire at the base of the mountains of pastors’…
SO you rent a three-bedroom flat for your side chick and furnish it, it does not make you her lord…
TINU, Tola and Rita have been friends for about 20 years. They all started small but God has been kind…
I KNOW abusive men like it when we tell their bartered wives things like these: “He will change, just keep…
IT happened somewhere in Kogi State, according to some randy reporters and amplified by randier commentators. The woman had been…
WHEN you see Carl and Mary, all you think of is perfect romance. Carl is tall and handsome, very supportive…
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.…