Enter the dragon, Africa Web TV presents its new website!

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After weeks of work, Africa Web TV is completing the process of redesigning her website. The redesigning means that we had to take loads of issues into consideration. Apart from the fact that the old website became too slow, we needed to take care of a serious issue of direct…

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Killing a chicken or how I became no longer a fishtarian

The headless fowl kept twitching for what seemed to be at least ten minutes. As I was holding the brown chicken’s wings all kinds of thoughts ran though my head. How warm the animal I had just killed still was. How the blood did not gush as generously as I…

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Femke becomes Funke: ‘That’s not a discount, that’s an insult’

Admittedly, I was getting audacious. After watching Sola’s technique for almost two weeks, I thought I could pull it off. I had been studying his bargaining moves, how he cracked jokes in Yoruba at the right moment and pretended to be offended the next. So when he stepped out for…

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Femke becomes Funke: My Lagos househunt

1. Not to count my chickens before they are hatched. I learnt this the hard way when I was getting to an agent’s office two weeks ago to pay for a two bedroom apartment, only to find someone else had beaten me to it. I was this close to calling…

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