Category: Persuasive

Shame is as old as man. Everyone at some point in their lives have known what it means to cower because we feel small and humiliated and exposed. We all know that feeling of wanting to disappear,... Continue reading

This essay is concerned with the mental crippling boxes in which young scholars are being placed because they do not conform to a particular “standard”. The essay, thus, will consider some ideologies in the Nigerian school setup... Continue reading

“It’s fine to criticize the government and all the other centres of power, probing for their inevitable, arrogant error modes. But we won’t blanket betray the nation that protected us, or the city whose cops we’d call,... Continue reading

Humans are very much fixated on starts and finishes, beginnings and endings, and nothing much for the in-betweens. We mourn the dead, we celebrate births (which of course aren’t bad things), and anything that reminds us of... Continue reading