Burdensome Love
Your love is my greatest burden!
And this I must offload!
The flower in me begs to bloom!
An Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Health, Education and Poverty
It is a ridiculous and unspeakable source of collective shame to humanity that an incredible 130 million girls are out of school, when a report has exposed that it costs less than a loaf of bread or a newspaper to educate a girl in a day.
I must admit
“I must admit, in my early days as a leader I was all about me. I had a title and I thought that was all I needed. I also thought because of my title everyone would automatically follow and respect me. Leadership wasn’t something I needed to work hard at. I felt I had already arrived.”
Dante’s Walks
Dante stood up from his desk and wandered to the window. He hated days like this. Days when he was so choked up by his work that he couldn’t take his daily walk through the city. He knew that the others cited his walks as proof of his un-Nigerian nature. But he did consider himself wholly Nigerian. His fluent and beautiful pidgin was a thing of pride for him after the many years he’d spent outside the country. Nobody walked in Nigeria, except you really had to. Especially not when you had a fleet of cars at your disposal. In Nigeria, even public transport was regarded as something for the poor and not-so-wealthy. In the beginning, his walks had been an issue between him and his father. Chief Vincent Omenuko, Dante’s father, was the founder and CEO of a multi-million naira pharmaceutical company in Nigeria and in his opinion, Dante,…
R.I.P Aminat
It was really a long something that day. A long ride home after a long day’s work and then I met, a long line of cars caught in a tight gridlock. Inside my Car, I sat bemoaning how lost my city was to have such congested roads. In times like this, I wished I had one of those super powers. Perhaps teleporting with my car and appearing right in front of my gate would do no harm. Good thing My ‘Spider’ had an A.C. and so, I had no problems with heat while waiting for the traffic… but the boredom. I searched the lower apartment in my mob looking for any CD I could play to break the boredom. ‘Lionel Richie’, ‘Bobby Brown’… What rubbish? This Tayo of a boy had disrupted my CD settings again. I still could not figure out how a seventeen year old boy would…
Pieces of Silence
I am almost 20 years, my whole life should be ahead of me yet it feels like my life ended on that April afternoon 11 years ago. With the stretch of my legs that April day, my life snapped.
And now I walk around in pieces and silence.
Why quote writing? My passion!
Little by little, that shy, angry and ugly girl as it were, evolved to a beautiful, bold, happy and purposeful lady.
Over the years, I have come to the realization that one major cause of failure in life is acceptance of stigmatization.
When I Was Young…
I now nurse a hunger for the wild things of life that you awoke in me, and left unattended, it’s like you did this on purpose. Shebi it gets easier as your jail term comes to an end, or it doesn’t?
This will be the last time I will ever be this vulnerable! I will rise!
A young Nigerian musician working to develop smart cities in Africa
These days, I spend most of my time travelling; doing music and creating social changes. I believe that apart from being a musician, I am also a core humanitarian and coupled with my training as a Surveyor, designing opportunities for impact has now become my new lifestyle.
Love Autism
Do you have a friend who is autistic? Aren’t they amazing with beautiful souls?
Paulina Mwindor shares in this extremely short, captivating but yet powerful and personal piece, the beauty she found in a girl who used her smile to speak volumes of love to her.
To All Women and Sisters Fighting Silent Wars: Superwoman
Here is a beautiful poem to all sisters and women in the world 🗺 fighting a battle in silence. Giving many hope whereas they themselves lack some hope. To those who make others smile, who makes them smile too?
Here are a few tips to help you sacrifice and prioritize your young life
Here are a few tips to help you sacrifice and prioritize your activities and here’s also one of the best advises I’ve ever received from a friend.