When an item of clothing is donated to charity in Europe, the chances are that it will end up in Africa. We have the Kantamanto market in Accra and the Katangua market in Lagos. Time magazine reports that the dress you never liked much might end up packed in a bale with hundreds of other cast…
Photo credit; Every day health Stress and anxiety have become common aspects of modern life, and their effects extend well beyond mental health. One of the areas most affected during periods of heightened stress is the digestive system. It is as if our gut becomes directly affected by all that tension as well. The Gut-Brain Axis: A…
God used to be Nigerian! Yes! In my naivety as a tiny tot! Birds chirped like birds, rats squeaked like rats! Never did I need bother; what to eat what to drink what to wear! World revolved around church as a result of indoctrination wanted to float on air since devil was underneath and, God with…
When the Reverend Babinton Macaulay had a dream of founding a school, and James Pinson Labulo Davies bought into the dream by providing a seed funding of 50 pounds sterling to buy books and equipment for the school, I’m not sure the positive collaborators realized they were up to something that would change the facet…
Ori yeye ni m’ogun! Marketplaces exist, e’en inside cooler! You may not know, since a gentleman you are! Tai se lo po! There, futures are sold Yes! If you did nothing And you get sent there Is your future not sold? Ori yeye ni m’ogun! You’re protected for free, though You get free food, accommodation too!…
Aren’t we all in birthday suits? Adam and Eve were lucky they were covered with leaves! Our own privacy is nakedness! We go about running from pillar to post, yet hardly finding true meaning of our beings! Would it be right to say, All men are equal? An emphatic no! Equality of man is but an…
Ajegunle – with unlivable, ramshackle palaces, kids playing in cesspits, since the place lacks, even, simplest of amenities – remains a banter, where our new jungle cities are! Even the dead, dead as dodo, get deprived of eternal rest or unrest, graveyards must be reclaimed, and give way to skyscrapers! Sleeping waters are woken, reclamation…
