Daddy,   I start with a confession:   I write this with utmost reluctance. This is my greatest act of defiance against my own will. I would have easily wriggled out of this if I could permanently evade this duty without feeling guilty… of disowning you.   I postponed writing about you more times than […]

At the age of 90, Mama didn’t die young. Yet, the news of her death disorientated me and hurt me more than I can articulate in words. Her passage represented the foreclosure of the fulfillment of a personal wish: I had always prayed, at least, for my first child to experience as great grandmother the […]

Nze,   You have never hurt like this before. Your heart has never ached this bad before. But if you could see through the tears that cloud your eyes, please read this.   I am more proud of you today than I have ever been. I am proud of the fact that you fought for […]

As one sits through the half hour bulletin and watches the TV screen renew itself with images of Death raking in a bumper harvest across the terrain – ISIS militants upgrading savagery with the playful slitting of throats of people who worship differently in Iraq and Syria ; the symbiotic war of attrition between Israel […]

Dimgba Igwe, a rock star of Nigerian tabloid journalism and one of the nation’s finest columnists, set forth on a routine jogging exercise in his Lagos neighbourhood three Saturday mornings ago. And he died. A driver ran over the running Dimgba and accelerated away from his fallen bleeding victim. An innocent fitness work-out, the arms […]