Yesterday’s slaves were slaves by deprivation of comfort
Yet the modern day slave remains in bondage of comfort
Cravings leave us hooked and sinkered by luxuries of all sorts Continue reading
Tag Archives: Non-fiction
Lagos to Enugu.
I was up by 5a.m. and by 6:30a.m. Ridwan and I were jumping out of a moving Danfo at Bariga. The bus from Bariga to Jibowu suddenly stopped about 5 minutes from Jibowu. Fuel or a mechanical fault, Ridwan didn’t let us wait to find out. We hoped down and made the rest of the … Continue reading
Nsukka!
We fell into companionable silence as the bike sped through Igbo-Eze, heading for Nsukka. I registered the slight dip in the weather almost immediately and soon enough my teeth started to chatter from the cold. I wished for a moment that I had brought my NYSC jacket along, and hoped it wouldn’t rain.
Ten minutes or so later we arrive at Nsukka and as we rode past the main gates of UNN, I stared in puzzlement.
“This is the UNN? Choi” I can’t describe how exactly it looked, but I know it wasn’t the elegance I expected. Continue reading
Why the ongoing tussle between Apple and the FBI should concern you.
On December 2, 2015, in a banquet hall 14 people lost their lives to a mass shooting attack as employees of the California Department Public Health held a holiday party. The perpetrators, a married couple were killed in a shootout with the state police after a four-hour manhunt. Over two months later, a legal battle … Continue reading
Social Anxiety: The Scars of a Bruised Childhood
You feel like you shouldn’t be here. You KNOW you don’t want to be here, but you are. Your palms get sweaty and your heartbeat picks up pace, the pores on your face begin to leak as the entirety of nerve endings in your head just go crazy. At this point you battle to maintain … Continue reading
