When something doesn’t make sense. When everything that was supposed to work out didn’t. When you are overwhelmed, confused, and despairing. When the red sea crashes...
“Nigeria is ON COURSE? Chude?! Are you and I not in this same country?” “I know. It’s almost a sacrilegious thing to say to any elite...
When someone asks you a favor if your reply is “I sadly don’t have the money. I haven’t even paid for X”, you expect empathy, even sympathy,...
Are you one of those people whom someone told when they were young, in school, powerless or needing the help of some sort that ‘you wouldn’t amount...
When others respect you or love you, or in other ways hold you in esteem, there is always the temptation for them to idolize you, to put you on a...
I am always excited to receive feedback on how these newsletters are helping you in your journeys. Once a month, I share some of the emails...
The other day I was driving back from church when someone who wasn’t being considerate blocked off our side of the road because he wanted to...
Immediately I said it, I did a double-take. Something about it came from deep inside me. I had just arrived in Lagos from Istanbul. Traveling light as...
The moment has been stuck in my head ever since. It was 17 years ago. I had just won my first prize outside of high school – the...
Him: And you made a statement on how only those who have deep emotions can reach deep or something like that? Me: Yeah… Him: Well…I went thru a deeper...
Responding to stimulus comes automatically. That’s what we often do as humans; it’s wired into our genes, in a manner of speaking. We encounter stimuli, we...
People have asked me this question all my life. It began when I was a child, and I was already leading solos in the children’s choir...
It was my post about the loss of my father that triggered this email from a reader. The human mind is a most remarkable thing. Memory...
I received the most human message I ever got, yesterday, from a dear friend. I want to share it with you: “Good morning Chude. I didn’t...
Satish Kumar is one of my favourite people in the world. He is an Indian monk and editor, more famous as a pacifist. But it is...
I am very effusive person. Those who know me closely know that, even though that’s not the image that filters into the public. I just sent...
Something is happening across the country that worries me deeply – young people in business are failing across the country. It isn’t worrying because it is...
Till this day, I have PTSD over the word ‘resignation’. In fact, it’s so bad, that my breathe stopped for about a second now just as...
There was a lot happening in three minutes. I wondered if I was hallucinating this reality; was this Things Fall Apart inside another story, wrapped in...
In April, someone from Liberia sent a flurry of newspaper clippings to my co-founder on Whatsapp: “Have you seen this?” he asked. ‘This’, it turned out,...
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