MzAgams

It’s been a minute. I wasn’t sure at the time why I stopped blogging regularly 2 years ago. I felt it had something to do with this but I wasn’t sure. There were hints here and here and here. And scattered around my offline life too. Now it all makes sense.

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I was profoundly honoured to be made Umuaka Times Newspaper Man of the Year 2020. I would have been offended if they made me Woman of the Year. And Person of the Year sounds wishy washy.

I outperformed the men. Let’s be clear about it! And hopefully I have raised the bar. I look forward to more from all my brethren in Umuaka, in Nigeria & all over the world, both Male & Female. I want to inspire everyone to do more and be more. It has been interesting experiencing life in this female embodiment.

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You have to appreciate and admire the time & effort that goes into being a ‘celebrity’ glamming up every day. It IS a full time job! I spent hours in the studio for this photoshoot. Me, who keeps her hair short because who has time to fuss with hair every morning?

For me this photoshoot was a symbolic ritual – a stretching of the imagination & its possibilities. A journey into liminal spaces.

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The stories are hard to tell & inauthentic till one accepts one’s own truth.

“You are hiding,” Binyavanga Wainaina said to me in 2016.

I was hiding.

Put on your sunshades.

I’m out!

Ancestors be praised!

Just Live It

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