A Typical Nigerian Week: Tomori’s Tears, Travel Apartheid and Sokoto’s corpses
About eight months ago, when the COVID vaccine was first brought to Nigeria, a friend jokingly said to me: ‘I hope this vaccination does not become li
Saturday Column
Saturday Column
Shisha: A borrowed Nightmare
A few months ago, a young man came to me seeking answers. Kabir* had developed a persistent cough over the past few months. His chest hurt and breathi
The Business of COVID-19
During the height of the AIDS pandemic, I remember one of my professors in medical school telling us about the actual ‘People Living with HIV and AIDS
Rationalizing Our Share of the National Cake
In Psychiatry, there is a concept called ‘Rationalization’. Rationalization is an attempt to logically justify immoral, deviant, or generally unaccept
The devil in our minds
While at boarding school, some twenty-something years ago, there was a particular girl in our dormitory whose stories were very colourful. Throughout