Colourism and Nigeria: Two truths and a lie
Let’s play a game called “Two Truths and a Lie.” I’ll state three things, one of which is a lie. If you can pick out the lie, you win. Here are my thr
Pretty Much Everything
Pretty Much Everything
The real cost of corruption
I logged on to Facebook and saw that a school building had collapsed in Jos, killing at least 20 students and injuring many more. Students who’d been
On disrespect and speaking up
I had the misfortune of sitting in front of a really loud, opinionated Naija man on a flight from the US recently. He was chatting with two women he h
Stop romanticising our suffering
Someone brought up “our resilience as Nigerians” in conversation not too long ago, and I was annoyed. My vexation was amplified by the fact that he sa
Ubuntu: A person is a person because of other people
Lately, I have been contemplating the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu. One of its most well-known expressions is the Zulu proverb “Umuntu ngumun