Oriki is a form of praise poetry which is a cultural phenomenon among the Yoruba people. The Yoruba people are spread across West Africa and in countries like Cuba, Brazil, the United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc. In the traditional Yoruba…
A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. The Associated Press reports that a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometres away in…
In the mental hospital, we were given hard-boiled eggs without salt. I came to see my time in isolation, and the forgoing of salt, as a form of slow torture. For over a month, I did not see anyone except the attendants when food was handed to me. When I bathed in the basin, I…
Scientists have drawn a clear line between one everyday skill and clearer thinking. Independent reports that writing by hand – instead of typing on a laptop or tapping on your phone – has serious cognitive benefits. “There’s actually some very i important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by hand,” Ramesh Balasubramaniam, a neuroscientist at…
Alo n’tahun abo n t’ana e! In the days of yore, animals were human-like. The ubiquitous tortoise was a prominent animal. He featured in most of our folk tales. It so happened that his wife’s father was a successful farmer. Tortoise was a greedy schemer. One day, he went to steal his father-in-law’s yams. Unknown…
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Photo credit: Readers Digest Ten years ago, at the height of blogging, I had a charming little corner of the internet where I documented my life with photos, anecdotes and way too many overshares. I met so many incredible people that way, and it felt warm and community-y and good – until it wasn’t. I…
