Navigating the world through the white lens — A poem: BBB I am black I am bold I am beautiful yeaaaa, this gets a lot of applause. A poem: WBB I am white I am bold I am beautiful yea, nahh, nobody ever says that…sorry nahh Ok, another rant or maybe just ruminating thoughts in my head Flashback A few years ago, I tweaked my…

When It Is Too Good To Be True; It is too true to be good — I hate rejection No! scratch that, I actually fear rejection. I avoid it at all costs, put away my dreams for so long, and refuse to involve in anything that required an application. For fear of rejection, I never send my poems out for publication or apply to jobs too good for me…

Let’s start with my origin — Nigeria — So I want to explore the world yea, I mean why not? There’s so much to see. When you don't have plans for kids and ‘marriage’ seems like a fairytale, exploring earth seems like the next best thing at 30. But one thing is important — whether kids or spouse…

Masking Your Ignorance, or in this case, memory loss, with a sprinkle of shyness, aggressiveness, or nonchalance. — Eureka Exactly 10 years ago, I self-diagnosed myself (as always) of carrying the active ingredients for early Alzheimer's disease. This name popped out of my memory bank as a possible diagnosis on a fateful day when I could not recognise an acquaintance. It was in 2012, on my way back from…

New because it's all over the innanet and old because, obviously, it's as old as the stars duuh! — They call it Zodiac, it’s factual just like the holy books, yea, with permissible inconsistency and flaws… and… it can tell you how special or not-special you are. Say Whaaaaat?!! Ok yea, I am a late fan of the Z — to the O — to the D.I.A.C. Years ago, my older sister…

And other self-sabotaging mechanisms — Did you grow up with every adult marvelling at your exceptional brilliance, nodding approvingly, and commenting on how your potential will eclipse the world in a cloud of greatness? Well… that was not me. Lol. Ok. I wasn’t a bad child nor dull. Until High School, I made sure to…

Especially for academic or professional purposes — During my recent application for a Master’s degree, I was asked to send a video answering the question “Are you a social innovator” I delayed answering for 4 weeks until the deadline. While having panic attacks and pessimistic reasoning, I wrote this down and made a video “A social innovator’s…

Because I am trying to encourage myself out of my self acknowledged laziness, please don’t give me scientific reasons to remain in this mess of a life that lacks motivation. — 3 facts about me you should know I believe 99.5% that I have ADHD according to many tweets and TikTok videos I didn't know ADHD was a thing until twitter and TikTok and I am not sure the doctors in my country would agree to test me or agree I have it or recommend something serious to…

But got distracted by an unfinished story in my draft. — Now, that the intensity of my rant has subsided because I had to finish that story, maybe I can make sense out of this life…or maybe not! THE TRUTH: From the perspective of a non-conformist conformist First, I believe there is a truth for everyone. My truth, your truth, collective truth, acknowledged truth, unknown truth and unfathomable truth.