“If we do not now dare everything, the fulfilment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign.
No more water, fire next time.”
— James Baldwin
It began like those spy movies, where the authorities finally have…
Bad water wey dey flow gan, e no fit carry us — Falz
In the beginning, there was nothing —
No, that’s not where our story starts.
On May 17, 2000, in LUTH, I was born and —
No, that’s not where our story starts either.
When David Oyedepo built…
I was walking on the street when the panic attack came, and the sky cried red. The buildings collapsed all around me and every breath was like pushing mountains. My fear, doubt and shame had kept a blindfold over me for years, and with them gone, I woke up to…
Months ago, a friend asked me if I had ever loved someone. Romantically.
“Yes,” I answered.
And then, I thought about what it felt like.
Love is trying, I think. It’s being nervous as hell to paint her on her birthday because you’re scared you’ll get it wrong and she’ll…
Dear Ejikeme,
It has been years…and for that I have only myself to blame. I was not a good father to you. How are Anita, and the twins? I hope they are doing well. The last time I saw them, they could fit in the cusp of each of my…
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make…
In my new home.
Ẹni tó ńbẹ̀rù àti ṣubú, àti dìde á nira fún un.
Whoever is scared of falling, would find it difficult to rise.
As Ṣàngó, god of thunder, lord of the storms, commander of lightning itself, walked to his death in chained hands, chained feet and a heavy heart, a small…
Coal was in the church that night as the rain outside threatened to blow the whole world down and he held the stone in his hand, feeling it ebb.
He knew the words to the spell; he had studied them for years waiting for this moment and now he had…
