From a recent hint on Facebook about my rape as a child came two major revelations. First, many boys are being raped by trusted aunts and...
I was, recently, witness to what began first, as a friend’s moment of delight, but progressed as nothing short of his instalmental persecutions. A wedding. A...
‘We have just lost another activist to the devil!’, snapped a young man at the news that Reuben Abati, fine public commentator, had just been appointed...
For most humans, the face is the most remarkable asset for individual recognition and identity. Forget facial similarities, biometric assistance can be summoned to preside over...
Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, that gap-toothed hilltop dweller, had popularized one little book during his reign as Nigeria’s Military Head of State. Written by one notorious fellow...
The problem with being an artist is that you see art in everything, even in misery. When my friend postponed her death by surviving a surgery,...
February 14. Or say, February 28. I just can’t wait for this whole toxicity to go away. By the 28th, two weeks after the election, I...
In my tiny village in Imo State, after the Christmas Eve Mass of December 24, 2003, a minor incident happened – one that perfectly illustrates Mallam...
My late, wise uncle, too lazy for speech, developed a very strange mechanism to discipline anyone who would not heed his counsel. He called it ‘Ndananya’,...
Some years ago, a new social culture emerged in Italy: many parents stopped introducing their religious faiths to their children. They chose rather to let them...
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