Nigeria

Mar 26, 2024

Rise of African Pride

Image from Creative Commons Imagine Black pride. What flashes through your mind? Perhaps it’s fists raised in defiance, the rhythms of jazz and hip-hop or the echoes of Civil Rights activism. Whatever it may be, shift your focus to African pride. What images emerge now? Does anything emerge at all? The celebration of African pride…

Oct 14, 2022

So Y’all Thought We Forgot Y’all Are Thieves

Imagine someone sees your expensive outfit. Rips it off your body. Puts it on and says they should wear it because it looks better on them. Then proceeds to pass that outfit on from generation to generation instead of giving it back to the original owners. To add insult to injury, as years go by,…

Oct 16, 2020

Everything you need to know about #ENDSARS

For over one-week #ENDSARS has been trending on social media. Thousands have been protesting. Hundreds have been injured. Many have been killed as Nigerians call for the government to #ENDSARS. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known as SARS, is a sector of Nigeria’s federal police department, was founded in 1992 by Simeon Danladi Midenda. It was…

Feb 17, 2020

A Love Letter to Chimamanda Adichie

Dear Ms. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,  First, I would love to say thank you for owning your craft. As a fellow Nigerian, it was hard for me to own my dream to be a writer because, in my family, any other profession besides medicine, engineering or law were not accepted. I continued to question myself asking,…