January 19, 2022
The summit had ended. My co-facilitators and I were saying goodbye, waiting for our youth leaders to drop off the Zoom meeting. Several stayed on. One […]
January 8, 2020
When folks start looking for witches and wizards causing trauma, enemies of progress, or frienemies; I say, take your racket elsewhere. I’ve got people who’ve got […]
December 7, 2019
“Who put this here? I thought you’d have learnt to clean up after yourself by now.” Though not directed at anyone in particular, these are ‘fighting […]
November 21, 2019
Usually, I fill the tank on the way back home from church on Sundays. But Yaya took the car to work. As I passed the gas […]
August 21, 2019
Walking with Mom this evening, we came across a bird’s nest. It had fallen off a tree and laid half broken on the sidewalk. Constructed with […]
August 2, 2019
Glancing at her nurse’s aid, the octogenarian clucked her tongue in disapproval, ‘That’s what she does all day. Head bowed as in prayer, eyes glued to […]
November 23, 2018
Prologue “What would you do when you first cast your eyes on your beloved?” Bisi folded a matching set of ankra clothes still creased from the […]
July 3, 2018
I am an American Nigerian. Do not confuse this with a Nigerian American who is first a Nigerian then an American. After 25 years in the […]