More about me
One thing was clear to me as a child; I wanted nothing to do with Math.
It didn’t matter if it was statistics or basic arithmetic — I sucked at it. Much to my father’s chagrin, who couldn’t wrap his head around why his daughter got a 98% in English and an abysmal 10% in Math in her Primary 1 exam.
So, he got me novels instead. A notebook for new words and a dictionary, too.
Why, if you couldn’t beat them, you join them, right?
I read many books from age 8, which piqued my interest in replicating stories that lingered in my mind. I’d even published short stories consistently in my school’s magazine from primary 3 to primary 5.
Enid Blyton and C.S Lewis were some of my favorite authors as a child and early teenage years.
But as I became older, sophisticated plots by Sidney Sheldon, Anne Rice, John Grisham, and even James Hadley Chase appealed to me. And by age 16, I had written more story drafts than I could count and would never see the light of day.
Read some of my poems, micro fiction, and short stories on my story blog and on Medium.
As you’ve guessed, story writing was my place of least resistance, and I wanted to tow that path, but posterity had other plans for me.
Enter Content
My content career started in 2017 as a Research and Development Assistant for an NGO startup in Nigeria. The NGO was focused on empowering the average Nigerian through scholarships, skill acquisition, and other empowerment activities.
During this time, I was a team of one; handling grant writing, research, and project ideation. The company soon folded and had me writing any content I could find on Nairaland and through referrals for a farthing.
After that, I joined DailyPost Copywriting, where I unashamedly struggled to write 5,000 words a day at piss-poor pay. I even wrote a piece about my time there.
It wasn’t an exciting role, but the challenges prepared me for a solid career in content writing and my next stint at TechContent Labs (TCL).
TCL opened me to the fascinating world of Tech and Marketing. In addition to writing many SaaS articles, I also helped build Scala Hosting’s knowledge base and wrote a 46,000-word resource for Camberene, solo.
I improved my business writing and research skills through consistent practice, excellent editor feedback, and devouring industry-relevant blogs.
Now, I work with content marketing agencies (as a result, most of my works are ghostwritten), and small business owners as an extension of their content team.
I’m also preparing for a Master’s degree in Digital Marketing.
