I am old, I am tired, sometimes I wish the world would just burn.
The worries
I wake up most mornings wishing I didn’t because there is so much peace in sleep. Sometimes I feel something deeply seductive about permanently escaping from the worries of the earth to venture into the embrace of peace but other times I feel also something incredibly disgusting about running away from the issues…
The constant news of religious violence in the country bothers me. I do not see any of it, I am a Lagosian, my existence is relatively safe. What we have in Lagos are elaborate religious court cases.
At first I wanted to write something dramatic on how Christianity and Islam are…
I like to tell myself that I am a recovering doomsday preacher, that I am on the road back to optimism.But my optimism is still showing signs of terminal illness. I still catch myself spreading the "fire on the mountain" ideology, I still find myself debating for hours over politics like I enjoy complaining. even…
One day on TV , there was an interview or a talk show I am not sure which it was and a certain man proclaimed on national TV how “we” Nigerians haven’t mastered the art of craft, of how…
I have decided to take the plunge and just write. I won’t worry about my posts being considered stupid or uninteresting. I won’t worry about my constant grammar errors. I will take correction as I go, I will see new ideas and perspectives and accept or reject them and most importantly I will improve. Although…