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Through My Eyes: She Leads Africa Festival

I attended the SLAY Festival with a few of my friends on the 21st of January 2017. I wasn’t enjoying the festival at the beginning but with the passing hours I got into the groove of it. The festival mini market provided a wide range of amazing products from food to drinks, decorative pieces, clothes and art pieces.
I have tired to put together the events of the day in the photos below. Enjoy!

A big thank you to Tjp and Bola for helping and Dami for her camera 

January 31, 2017
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Letters 06 (Her Version of Events 3)

Hello Everyone 
This is a follow up to the series ”Her Version of Events”,I should clear up a few things, the events in these letters are totally made up. LoL! 

You can catch up on the earlier letters below; 
Her Version of Events 1 
Her Version of Events 2

Enjoy!! I hope it doesn’t take me another nine months before I write the next Letter. 

Dear Friend,


I am about to go on a date with the wedding singer and I feel the need to give you a life update, so here goes.


Wedding singer, called a number of times after we met, but I wasn’t up to it so I gave excuses and I believe it wore him out and he stopped trying.


I know what you are thinking I didn’t follow through on the last line in my previous letter, I will try to explain why. I wrote that last line, forgetting that my head and emotions don’t function as one, they are two separate entities at constant war with each other making it difficult for me to move forward.


I took a step back to play mediator to my waring parts and arrived at this conclusion, these two parties may never agree, but they can work at peace by balancing each other out. So I listened to the arguments of both parties and made the effort to work on the important points they raised.


Firstly, I needed closure. I know the first name of ‘’he who must not be named’’ so I googled it.  It was a fruitless search who knew the name Folu is a common name, so I moved to Instagram, I tried Twitter and finally Facebook. I gave up my search about two months after I started.


I have always loved writing, I find it very therapeutic etching out my feelings on a sheet of paper. I wrote about the few days I spent with Folu, the process of writing out our time together made it real, that  I didn’t dream up those days. Writing ‘’our story’’ made me feel like Allie from Nicholas Sparks novel the Notebook  I can hear you screaming cheesy as you read this.


Documenting our story gave me the closure I needed, but too much time had passed and wedding singer wasn’t calling anymore. So I put all my effort into my work and went on random dates with men my friends set me up with. None of the dates were memorable, I found myself waiting for the end of each date or not paying any attention to what the guys were saying. Maybe I tried too soon, ‘’give it time’’ was the line I repeated to myself after every failed date.


Proposal season is upon us, the month of December comes with countless proposals and you can be rest assured you will get roped into planning a surprise proposal.


My friend Tito’s boyfriend roped me into planning a surprise proposal, I was in charge of getting the balloons and inviting her to lunch and bam! he would pop the question. I arrived at the venue to Tito’s nervous boyfriend, a few of our friends and yes you guessed it wedding singer.


‘’Hello’’ he said to me, he stretched his hands to collect the balloons from me, I handed them to him and I nodded in response.
‘’This is the person that refused to go out with me’’ he said to Tito’s boyfriend.
‘’It isn’t like that’’ I replied.
‘’Really?’’ he asked
‘’Yes Really’’
‘’How far is Tito, hope you made sure she is coming?’’ Tito’s boyfriend asked. I was grateful for the question
‘’Yes she is, I texted her on my way’’.
Tito arrived a few minutes later, he asked, she said yes. It was beautiful.


I walked over to wedding singer and asked if he still wanted to go out, he said yes. We fixed a time and place. We can agree to blame this on the nostalgia of witnessing a proposal. I am a little scared he will not show up, I will update you soon on how it goes.





January 24, 2017
25, Playlist,

Lifegiva Radio

I had my first live show on Lifegiva Radio today. I never in a million years thought I will be an ”OAP”. For starters I talk too fast and I am very restless but, the team at Lifegiva believe in me and this gave me the courage to take up this role, I talk a little slower now but I don’t think there is a remedy for restlessness.

The show is ”About The Song”, I co-host with my friend Bola and it airs every Sunday from 4pm – 6pm. To find more about Lifegiva and the show you can check out there website: Lifegiva.com  and turn-in to Lifegiva Radio 

Enjoy candid moments from today’s show

January 15, 2017
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Ore’s Playlist January 2017

This month’s playlist is very personal, it comes from a place of sweet sorrow, a place where your world is crumbling but you find constant joy in God and you don’t have a miute to dwell on all the things that are not going your way.
I believe the songs on this playlist are helping me in this season and I pray you can draw strength from these songs the way I am doing.



  • Take Courage by Kristene Dimarco; my friend Demilade introduced me to this song and I have listened to it on repeat ever since. It is about the waiting period, God’s love in the waiting period.
  • Good Good Father by Housefires; I heard this for the first time in November at the 2016 Night of Worship and this line from the song stuck with me ”You are a good good father that is who you are and I am loved by you that is who I am”. The line reminds me of God’s constant love for me.
  • Build My Life by Housefires; I love every bit of this song and it lifts my spirit every time it comes up, I find myself praying one of the lines in the song ”I will build my life upon your love”, that God releases strength to me to build my life upon his love.
  • Even when it hurts (Praise Song) by Hillsong.


Happy Listening.

January 11, 2017
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