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It wasn’t 1967, there were no bombs coming down like rainfall nor were there bullets flying in the air. Ojukwu’s name wasn’t in everyone’s mouth and too many of us weren’t paying attention to the [...]

I sit with my legs on the table, a habit my mother loathes but has continuously failed to put an end to. There’s a show on TV and all I do is stare at the wall above. The light hurts my eyes but [...]

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be. –  [...]

The Dictionary defines hunger as a condition in which a person or persons, lack the financial or physical capability to eat food sufficient enough to meet the basic nutritional needs of the body [...]

The traffic is lighter than usual today. I’m driving carefully because the rain that was beating hard on my windshield usually camouflaged the real depths of the potholes on the road. My [...]

I was eleven, and I think I was still in the throes of blinding religion because, otherwise, I would never have allowed a thing like that. I was warm and quivering with malaria. I had sticky [...]

When exactly does an eagle realize its wings are the most powerful? It’s hard to tell because no one sees the number of times they have to fly, fall, and try again. We only see them soar and [...]

For three weeks a crowd had gathered at home to celebrate my grandmother’s life. For three weeks the atmosphere was gloomier, tainted with sadness and frustration, and thoughts of never seeing [...]

When Nana Kwame died, I avoided his mother like the plague. In the weeks leading up to the funeral, I mourned him from the safety of my home – some one hundred steps away from the brown gate that [...]

Alex, ‘I saw a grasshopper today’. It’s funny how something so insignificant can trigger the fondest memories. I remember the first time we caught that tricky insect right outside the kitchen. Do [...]