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WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER, LANGUAGE ENTHUSIAST, COFFEE LOVER, AFRICAN.

Hi! I am Emmanuella Omonigho, resident storyteller and award winning author of Stars in a Beautiful Night.

THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS THAT IT THRIVES ON THE UNEXPECTED

When KIISHI, a young celebrity on campus falls deeply into a swamp of despair, he decides to end it all before he can go further. But he finds a strange stranger who fills in as another form of distraction from his pains.

FUMNANYA chooses to isolate herself from her agony. She can pretend to be okay as long as she’s far from home. The not-so-funny talkative she meets at the lagoon, on the other hand, can see through her every disguise.

As the two strangers keep interacting, one begins to heal and the other finds their ripped edge injured beyond repair…

MORE WORKS
Birthdays came with the future, and future came with fear. That was what Nanare felt, especially after having an almost bad year. But a trip to the mall and a strange Stranger might have been all she needed to live in the present.
Battlefront returnee, Nosa Okunbor is faced with remembering the actions and choices he made. Greatly suffering from shame and anger, he ventures into closing himself off. But life always has a way of making a hole in our walls and giving us the power to decide how wide it would be to accommodate the next person. Still, Nosa finds himself overwhelmed by his memories. Will his conscience allow him to do whatever is needed to bring down his wall?
What happens when you’ve planned this perfect Christmas and never knew a new piece would have to be added? What happens when the Christmas comes with something or someone? A childhood enemy Eighteen year old Eboseremen Irabor was given the opportunity to plan the perfect Christmas for her family but she knew it was bound to go one way with the arrival of someone whom she never planned for, Jagajaga.
Stories of men who abandon their family for reasons not worth it litter all around. Stories of men who violently abuse their wives for no just cause fly around. Stories and stories which hold facts and fear and truth. Stories and stories one woman had lived and could take no longer. These stories are her truth, the truth which made her she. Five years after Ese had gone through pain, abuse, almost death, she builds up her life steadily, catering for her two children working as a detective in the Nigerian Police Force. Her role at work; to protect the people of her great nation. But secretly she thirsts for revenge, she hunts down every man who are abusers, rapists and molesters, but her aim is to catch one: the man who brought pain and regret to her, the man who abandoned her and her children, the man she married. She is a police by day but something else by night. Neither a hero nor a villain but she wears a mask. She calls herself Shadow.

Creative Writing & Storytelling 101

Originally posted on WattNigeria:
With Emmanuella Omonigho Introduction to Storytelling Everybody is a born storyteller. It comes in different ways, but the most informal method could be described as when your friend asks you about the latest episode of a show you both are loyal to, and then you take it upon yourself to explain, scene by scene—and if possible, word for word. Or maybe relaying that gossip that you heard from a friend of a friend (in Doja Cats voice). …

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