Dear Reader, It's been what...6 months since my last post here? So much has happened in those months. Too much has happened in those months. Most importantly, I've had to sit with some interesting questions I still do not have answers to. I do have a lot of clarity, about what I want out of … Continue reading Becoming Canadian
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What it really means to return to sender
You’re scrolling through Twitter. Everyone seems to be retweeting a thread. You notice a few familiar handles tweeting their thoughts on the thread. You like a couple of retweets and click on a few, hoping to find the original poster and read the entire thread. You claw your way through RTs upon RTs until…. “Ah, … Continue reading What it really means to return to sender
this thing under your skin
“That Yellow Paw-paw na”, Chinwe said again. Chinwe was sitting with other girls in front of the SS2 block. They were talking about the new Junior student who wouldn’t do anything that wasn’t in the school curriculum. This included serving punishment, doing chores or running errands for seniors. It didn’t help that she was the … Continue reading this thing under your skin
Lost
That morning, Salewa logged in to her twitter account to find another tweet of a missing 16-year old girl. This time it wasn’t the usual stranger asking everyone to Retweet until the missing girl was found. This time it was her friend @niniayo who posted that his younger sister was missing. He had gone ahead … Continue reading Lost
The Driving Test
I don’t like tests. Don’t get me wrong, I pass them. But I don’t like them. Reason? How does my answering them correctly indicate that I really know what I know? How do 5 sets of questions determine that I have really learnt what I was meant to over a period of time? What if … Continue reading The Driving Test