I had a conversational disagreement with my friends today. We had gathered to eat together –something I rarely do- and I did not match their pace (did not even try to). One of them said the words, “Olumide, you are too slow”. I’ve heard those words all through my life. Fifteen-plus years ago, I would [...]
No family, abandoned at the orphanage at age 3. He ran away at age 5 after being beaten. He lived alone for about 10 years, sleeping in toilets or on stairs. He sold snacks and drinks to survive… yet when he opened his mouth to sing, it was something else. N matter how rough the [...]
I got inspired by a Deitrick Haddon song, “I’m Alive” to post this. I kept putting it off until I heard aout the death of one of my favourite non-Christian singers, Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston had it all- fame, money, a great voice (that is an understatement)… she was a star and her fans loved [...]
It was raining hard. Thunder rumbled loudly over the house like a lion whose food had been stolen. Lightning flashed in quick successiions, brightening the dark sky with flashes like a programmed camera. NEPA (the power agency) had cut off the power supply as usual (the rains were usually a convenient excuse). Not surprisingly, I [...]
A neighbour brought me a movie this afternoon. I wasn’t very optimistic about watching it as soon as I observed that it was a Nigerian movie. Don’t get me wrong: I’m proudly Nigerian and I’m not against Nigerian movies. But of the thousands of movies produced by the Nigerian movie industry (Nollywood) each year, very [...]
