Tag: Nigeria
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Keep the life of Onyeka Onwenu!
Legends never die. They only assume new position as ancestors. The knowledge of your passing though remains deep. You were more than an icon, a muse, a storyteller, a dreamer who reminded us why love would keep us all together, why God should bless our mothers and truly the power of bringing people together. I…
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Keep being limitless!
I dreamed things would be different. Children would laugh and I would sit back and sigh. There is no place like home. Not in form, for some. So thank God for all the roosters, turkey, cows goats and monkeys we saw along the way. Also thank you to all the trees that swayed around, ushering…
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Keep beginning with children!
My day seemed random at first. International festival. Second grade kids. Talk about being born and raised in Nigeria. Simple. Until it began. There were all sorts of questions from minds curious about places far from home. I took it all in. Mesmerized faces eager to sail from this place to one I call home.…
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Keep Lagos!
Lagos. May your roads never be bad. That’s what they say when you arrive. I say may your days never be bad. May they never. It’s been 2 years and this never gets old. Lagos girl, born and raised. Feels good to be home.
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Keep focusing on the trouble with Nigeria!
I keep returning to the book The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe. It was written in 1983 and described then as ‘a must read for all Nigerians who care about their country, who feel they can no longer stand idly by and wring their hands in anguish while Nigeria is destroyed by bad leadership,…
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Keep rising Nigerian youth!
A country’s youth reveal its social condition. In Elliot Aronson’s briliant book entitled The Social Animal, he noted that how we make sense of our world makes a difference. And we attempt to make sense of our world hundreds of times a day. Even the most trivial or important decisions we make, are all dependent…
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Keep ending SARS!
In his bestselling book “The fire next time,” James Baldwin shared a statement that perfectly describes the ongoing strife with SARS, (the Special Anti-Robbery Squad) in Nigeria today. He noted (and I paraphrase) behind what we think of as menace, lies what we do not wish to face…that fact is that life is tragic. For…
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Keep fostering innovation for Nigeria by Nigerians at 60!
In 1983, Chinua Achebe wrote a very short book entitled ‘The Trouble with Nigeria.’ In it he suggested that the trouble with Nigeria then was ‘simply and squarely a failure of leadership…the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility which are the hallmarks of true leadership.’ A student asked one day,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 