Pretty Much Everything

Pretty Much Everything

My State of the Nation Address: Updates

I’ve been teaching experimental fiction this semester, and really loving how it allows the students to tell stories they couldn’t have told otherwise.

Wrong time for a birthday bash

The Igbo have a proverb which says that when someone else’s corpse is being carried along the road, it can seem like a bundle of firewood to bystander

Man shall not live by bread alone

I just read a post on Twitter (I’m still finding it difficult to refer to it as ‘X’) about a young woman whose relationship fell through because the m

Gold fish has no hiding place

It was on X (formerly Twitter) that I first heard of the unfortunate chopper accident that claimed the lives of six people, including Herbert Wigwe, G

On being a good neighbour

I think it was the great Ngugi Wa Thiongo who once said in an interview a long time ago that writers are like Cassandra (from Greek mythology): doomed