Category: Reflections

We sat huddled in this bus like a herd of cattle. Thirty three strangers, whose lives take different courses everyday but on this day somehow …

We will remember these days when we were easy pickings for ridicule because we were starting out. These amateur days when we had no backing, …

The last semester of University feels exactly like the belly of phalaris’ bull. Its plain hell and gruesome. The lecture hall has become a place …

I’m in Ahero, Kano and the village drunkard is at it again. Normally I snub his ramblings but tonight I’m eavesdropping his tirade. He’s out …

Papa was never a rolling stone. He laid his hat at one place and that was home. No, he never left us alone. The man …

Mental health is a slippery slope. It calls for balance and the healthiest of minds are those that barely teeter. Mental health is a continuum …

I have a problem of putting off things, carrying things I know I need to do now to an unseen ideal tomorrow. A tomorrow that …

It’s little money, kidogo cash but nonetheless I make my own dough. For me, there is an irrevocable dignity in that, no matter what and …

Most of the things we want to change in our lives require that we change ourselves first. The exorcist must rid himself of the things …

It’s 7am and my gaze is starkly cast on a computer screen. I’m in a green walled office, carpeted blue. Next to me is an …