Is the glass half full or half empty? You’ve likely encountered this as a personality test. Optimists see possibilities. Pessimists see lack. But that framing can be too rudimentary. Before deciding how to describe the glass, especially if we’re going to drink from it, we should ask a more important question: what’s inside it? If […]
Young Vic’Adex, 2009 There are parts of my childhood I can only understand backwards. At fifteen, understanding wasn’t available to me. Only rebellion. I had lived lines like, “I was 13 when I chose death over my father.” I meant it. Everywhere I turned, people insisted that honouring my father and mother was the secret […]
On Hilda Baci’s Jollof world record, a viral post mocked Nigerians: while other countries were winning Nobel Prizes, it claimed, Nigerians were “cooking rice.” On the surface, it sounded like clever social critique. Look closer, and it was a lazy contrast that reduced a country of 220 million into a caricature. The Illusion of Nobel Parity […]
“Grant me chastity and self-control — but not yet.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions Tweet There are books that tell you what a man feels, and there are books that tell you what a man believes about himself when no one is looking. Poetry Has All My Pain belongs firmly to the latter. It is not simply […]
In a landmark celebration of creativity and spoken word, Poets in Nigeria (PIN) marked its 10th anniversary with a National Poetry Slam, drawing poets from across the nation and setting a new milestone for Nigeria’s growing performance poetry community. Over the years, PIN has championed the art of poetry by mentoring young writers and giving […]
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”— Leonardo da Vinci IntroductionAppeal to authority is one of the fallacies we were introduced to in philosophy. The concept is straightforward: instead of presenting a clear, logical argument with premises leading to a conclusion, someone simply makes a statement and expects us to accept it […]