Nobody warned you that growing up in a polygamous home could leave marks you would spend years trying to understand. Not the kind you can point to. The quiet kind. The ones that show up when you are an adult, and you realise you have never quite known where you belong, or why love always feels like something...

How much do you know about being a firstborn in an African home? In Igbo culture, the firstborn holds not only a title but also traditional authority. The firstborn son, known as the Diokpara, is expected to inherit his father’s Obi, the family compound used for ancestral connection, social gatherings,...

Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting you psychologically? These days, every podcast, video, or blog post you come across is either about artificial intelligence or has AI behind it in one way or another. Then there’s the constant conversation: AI taking over jobs, AI being...

When the Relationship Ended Last year, I came out of a three-year relationship that had already been unstable for a long time. We had been on and off, arguing often, but I stayed because I believed we would eventually get married. At least, I believed that. But just a few days before he travelled abroad,...

There are so many little things you catch yourself doing that you probably think are just random, odd habits or patterns. Maybe you assumed it was just you, and you never even stopped to question it. But a lot of those behaviours aren’t random at all. In psychology, when a certain way of thinking or...