Mothers Appreciation Week Archives - The Culture Custodian (Est. 2014.)

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Letter to my mother: Wole Lawal

March 6, 2016 by Editorial Team

By Wole Lawal Iya mi, I’m scared…I’m scared of everything I think it’s because I don’t know what else life could hit me with Everything’s happening too fast and I

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Letter to my mother: Jola Ayeye

March 6, 2016 by Editorial Team

By Jola Ayeye It’s a different type of closeness when you live in a person’s body. Every year there is the temptation to write empty but meaningful platitudes. To

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Letter to my mother: Bolu Owoyeye

March 6, 2016 by Editorial Team

By Bolu Owoyeye Iya mi, I am writing this heart felt letter to you, to express my love and appreciation. I know it can never be enough to show the

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Letter to my Mother: Laila Johnson -Salami

March 6, 2016 by Editorial Team

By Laila Johnson -Salami Dear Mum, Where do I start? I cannot begin to thank you for everything you have done for me. Ever since I was a little girl,

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Letter to my mother: Nafisa Haliru

March 6, 2016 by Editorial Team

By Nafisa Haliru Dear Mum, When I think about ‘love’ and its meaning, I get confused mainly because love seems to have lost its authenticity in our world today. Even

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Letters to our mother: Asa, Aedan and Adelle Asika

March 15, 2015 by Editorial Team

To my dear Mother, Adenike Asika, who was taken away from me on the 5th of September 1997. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish you were here.

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Letter to my mother: Feyikemi Akin- Bankole

March 15, 2015 by Feyikemi Akin-Bankole

MAMA B What and who is my mummy? She’s the queen of my heart. My pearl of inestimable value. The white rose in the land of red roses. A teacher

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Letter to my mother: Ademide Adepetun

March 15, 2015 by Editorial Team

Dear Mother, I have been tasked to write a letter of appreciation to you; one that shows my appreciation of you. To express all the things that you have done

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Nne’mo

March 15, 2015 by Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

He was gone and weeks passed and he had taken and claimed her heart we grew thin but I had her love; it took the place of bread. And then

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Letter to my mother; Sarah Nzisabira

March 15, 2015 by Tomi

Maman, I found it hard to write to you exactly everything I felt should be said from a daughter to her mother on this precious day. I hope the above

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Letter to my Mother: Lolade Salami

March 15, 2015 by Editorial Team

To my dearest mother and lifelong friend. Mrs. Eniola Ige – Salami. When I come to terms of identifying people in my life who have had my back through

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Letter to my mother: Temilayo Awofeso

March 14, 2015 by Editorial Team

Dear Mom, My gratitude for you is ineffable and no word in any earthly language can express my love for you. I’ll try. Firstly, I want to thank you for

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LETTER TO MY MOTHER: FEYIKEWA ANIMASHAUN

March 30, 2014 by Editorial Team

Dear Mother, To the woman who gave me more than life Perfumed in selflessness and determination Walks with the confidence of a thousand men A sunrise, our sunrise after an

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LETTER TO MY MOTHER: WALE LAWAL

March 30, 2014 by Editorial Team

Eventually Twenty-One: Letter to My Mother Mummy, I am afraid of twenty-two The age is creeping up from under my bed And the months have turned into shadows and climbed

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LETTER TO MY MOTHER: AFAM

March 30, 2014 by Editorial Team

Dear Mama Afam, The last time I wrote you a letter, I was 12. I was a terrible 12 but then again when I was 12, I thought you terrible too.