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
Pretty Much Everything
Pretty Much Everything
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
On Landmark Beach and the Coastal road project
For the past month, I have been consumed by the planned (and then executed) demolition of Landmark Beach. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the videos
On Yahaya Bello and the curious case of the Nigerian psyche
So, former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, paid an astronomical $845,000 advance tuition for his children at the American International School Abuj