Pretty Much Everything

Pretty Much Everything

PSA: If you can’t be polite, don’t engage

A few days ago, a well-travelled, well-earning Nigerian man asked a question on Twitter, and one of the responses he got was from an apparent I Too Kn

Things Fall Apart, Idris Elba, and manufactured outrage

Chinua Achebe’s seminal Things Fall Apart was published in 1958. The novel is iconic for its exploration of a pre-colonial Igbo community, countering

The danger of a wealth-obsessed society

A friend just discovered that while he was in Nigeria to bury his mother, some of his townspeople discussed kidnapping him for ransom, and then “wasti

Man or child?

A viral clip on Twitter last week was of an adult woman telling other (married) adult women that when their husbands cheat, the fault is theirs becaus

Khaki no be leather

Months ago, I ordered leather bags for my sister and me from a Nigerian Instagram bag maker I hadn’t used before. Her bags looked great online, she se