Lessons from IFE

Ayk Fowosire

Elsewhere, "the price of freedom is watchfulness"; back home, the price we pay to still be on this side of the here-and-now is fear. Legendarily, it is the fear of the future, the fear of the unknown; but in more recent times, there is likewise the fear of the law... For we are aware of the laws protecting us, our being, our freedoms, our respectedness; as we are also aware of the (not so) subtle ways that these laws have been undermined, sidelined, and crushed– and all in one breath– by the very ones we allowed to be in the position to safeguard our sovereignty, and who do not...

Chimamanda Adichie: The Miraculous Deliverance Of Oga Jona

Now, this is just class! Chimamanda presents an admixture of sarcasm, craft, depth, all woven around the theme of constructive criticism. Oga Jona....from me, Sayo,  to you, I say, "governance is intensive, but can be also simply straightforward"

Dear Readers, I present to you...a grand slam of an article!....enjoy....

As soon as he opened his eyes, he felt it. A strange peace, a calm clarity. He stretched. Even his limbs were stronger and surer. He looked at his phone. Thirty-seven new text messages – and all while he was asleep. With one click, he deleted them. The empty screen buoyed him. Then he got up to bathe, determined to fold the day into the exact shape that he wanted.

When Is One Ready To Get Married?

Sayo Aluko

PHILOSOPHERS' MAIL

“Everybody needs love; to get it may come easy, to fall in it mostly comes easier, but to nurture and sustain it for the sake of appreciable growth is hard work, though not rocket science” 
                                                               Sayo Aluko

It used to be when you’d hit certain financial and social milestones; when you had a home to your name, a set of qualifications on the mantelpiece and a few cows and a parcel of land in your possession.

a Christian or a Muslim?

Sayo Aluko 

Are you a Christian or a Muslim? 

The question that should never be asked;

Seemingly harmless, but it's hatred's fundament,

For which the die gets cast,

A limitary insignia, erasing peace so fast.

A Christian or a Muslim?

Creed over humanity, religion over benevolence;

Buoyed by the weighty flak of dogma,

Creed crept into our vantage,

and Humanity, polluted with lethal chasm.

Reflective: Five (5) Lessons from #EkitiDECIDES

Sayo Aluko

 

It's been almost a week now, and the dust still seems settling. A shocker for a distant few, an expectation for the proximal many, the Ekiti state gubernatorial election in south-west Nigeria came, saw, and "conquered". These below are 5 major realities, lessons sort of, that I've basically tried to decipher from the election as a whole.