Month: October 2020
Shuffering and Shmilling
Covered in a blanket ‘free will’ and enveloped by ‘rights’ is a plague on the world. It hides under the alias of democracy- a government for the people, of the people and by the people. What Abraham Lincoln failed to mention was: ‘the people’ actually means the elite. Those who have fortune and name in […]
What to do when your president is the biggest joke on the planet?
The answer is simple enough: resist, rebel and revolt! Nigeria is facing one of its most significant uprisings in history, greater than Moremi’s infiltration, greater than Jaja of Opobo’s actions and it would be an insult to minimize this struggle by refusing to write on it. Inspiration hits you in different ways, but it refused […]
The Monster Under the bed: Mental illness
In secondary school, we thought mental illness was a disease of white people. When we heard of some person committing suicide abroad, we would say ‘white people are so stupid’, or ‘Nigerians would never want to kill themselves, are they white?” Then we would fall into obnoxious belts of laughter. In my head, white people […]