We all love with conditions. Sorry to burst your bubble, Katy Perry, but unconditional love is a myth. I know everyone is going to get flustered and say their case is different and that they love their partners unconditionally. Horse shit, darling. Just like secret service agents, most times, conditions…

You are not a good person and that’s ok. I think the description of a bad person is pretty set in stone. We can unanimously agree that any person that happily causes pain to people around them, takes advantage of them, and hides the truth is a bad person. It…

I have an immense love for my culture — the Igbo culture. We have beautiful stories, cosmologies, adages, and turns of phrase. Unfortunately, vast chunks of my culture have been lost due to a lack of pen-to-paper documentation and the use of word-of-mouth as the primary method of knowledge transmission…

‘You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if we got to heaven and discovered there was nothing wrong with being an evil person.’ My head whipped up, and I looked them dead in the eye. ‘Maybe, but the chances of that happening is slim…to none.’ Their smile is forlorn. ‘You’d be…

Synopsis of Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway (2023) What does one do when everything they know and are a part of is termed “wrong”? What is a mother to do when entire systems, bodies, and countries tell her she is unfit to care for her children? Who should a woman turn to when her husband stabs her in…

A while ago, on Elon Daberechi Musk’s Twitter, a vendor that I follow posted pictures of the dresses she makes. Stunning is so inadequate an adjective to describe the dresses in question. To take things up a notch, the tailor/vendor gave the clothes names. Not style names. She named them…

A Tribute to a Literary Icon On April 1st, a friend sent me a text laughing about the lack of pranks on Fool’s Day. “Nothing dey funny this period,” I replied. When I heard the news of your demise three days later, I had hoped it was a delayed April Fool’s joke. A prank, anything but…

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. A repercussion, if you will. However, standing at this T-junction facing my town’s station interchange, I realized this so-called reaction could sometimes be non-action. For the past few months, I have been obsessed with traffic lights, with good reason. When…

In different countries, the weather is an effective conversation starter. In Nigeria, however, nothing opens and sustains a conversation better than the term “Buhari.” Once tossed into the air, it blooms, swells with new life, and bursts into a heated debate. On this sweltering February afternoon, Buhari was again the…