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• Nigeria and the theory of insane resilience

  Posted Mon at 11:46 AM

  I was going through my feed on twitter one afternoon and I came across this tweet by a handle (@imoteda) that made me stop for a moment to think, and it says, “Nigerians survive insane situations because we’re literally bred to push through anything. It make...

• How our educational system unmakes us

  Posted Apr 7

  “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.” ~Albert Einstein Is it just us or is it a worldwide problem? The educational system everywhere is considered to be flawed f...

• The Yaba women market march: A fight for bodily autonomy

  Posted December 30, 2018

  “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free …so other people would also be free.” - Rosa Parks  The worst thing about slavery is the fact that you can’t even own your own body and it is sad that in the 21st centur...

• The emotional consequences of brutal honesty

  Posted December 18, 2018

  People usually like to pride themselves in their brutal honesty. They want to brag about how brutally honest they are as their shoulders rise higher than it should. Thinking that they are somehow doing the world a favour by shutting everyone down and talking to people i...

• Colourism: Can we ever be free from our mental slavery?

  Posted December 5, 2018

  We speak about slavery as if it is something that has happened only hundreds of years ago and is currently none of our concern. We speak of it, like we speak of our ancestors, in metaphors, in a language of the ghost as if it can never come back. We talk about slavery a...

• You can’t always have it figured out, and that is fine

  Posted December 2, 2018

  No one, I mean absolutely no one has everything figured out even when they appear as they do. Life is a series of ups and downs, and we all have moments that we reach rock bottom, and that is fine, so long we try to pick up ourselves after that. There is a pressure on u...

• The suffer head syndrome: Stop glorifying suffering to justify success

  Posted November 27, 2018

  We treat suffering as if it is a rite of passage, as if it must be something you must have experienced at least once in other to succeed, or in order to last long in a relationship or a marriage or get a good education. We carry suffering and we place it on a pedestal. ...

• Relationships: Do not let the society make you settle for less than you deserve

  Posted November 2, 2018

  Have you ever felt the need to settle down for any relationship when you know you are not ready? Well, don’t. The world has never ended because of one’s wish or desire to be alone. Sometimes, you are not ready, and you might not even be aware of it, and that...

• Roller-coaster is what you are the moment you enrolled into the university

  Posted October 10, 2018

  When you first come to a university, you will go in with different beliefs and high expectations, but for most of us, those beliefs are not always right. But who will blame us after years of watching Nollywood and even Kannywood movies and seeing how they portray univer...

• Creative writing: How to write stories that inspire

  Posted September 21, 2018

  There are ten thousand ways to go insane in this life and writing is one of them. Do you blame a person who leaves behind a bit of his soul and sanity in everything he writes? But if we are going to go insane, let’s go insane beautifully. Let our madness set our s...