Mine is to filter out the rhetoric and propaganda, so that we children of the soil can form opinions based on logic and reason. Not through those summarized and scripted tales presented to us.
Trying to fit in will have you conforming to things not meant for you for the sake of falling under the normal category or label in the society. This takes more from you than you think, instead of receiving you give all the time...this only leads you towards the path of burning out.
I fell in love with the title of the book, way before my eyes got to read it's contents.I love Ms Nnedi Okorafor's writing and her storytelling, not only does the book teach us about the importance of discipline, respect, humility, honesty, accountability and patience it also highlights the importance of acquiring knowledge but also … Continue reading The Akata Witch Book Review
They continue to parade themselves as the peacocks of our time, the color bringers and the statement makers.The crop that delivers for the sake of recognition and to buy face basking in excellence that is purely built on fakeness!
At times it is the elders who hurt us when they pass on because, they die as an institution. Gogo Jebhu
When it first came to be, there was no tension.Relations were formed on baseless foundations, which lacked solidity..No one cared at the time, cause combos were communicating.Things turned sour, the minute the divine femine energy began to shine from within..Now that these queens knew who they were, they tolerated less and the other ones hated … Continue reading The Divine Mistake that fixed itself
As a student activist, we are given the yellow light by those we never expected whilst still awaiting the green light from those who claim to be the change makers.It makes you question the initial intentions of those who put rules in place that frustrate sons and daughters of the soil on their respective campuses, … Continue reading Notes From a Student Activist
You can stop with the pretense cause there are no cameras,What's it with your kind indulging in food not meant for their stomachs?Don't you ever get tired of the constant suffering you have subjected us to?I don't think I get it quite right, this thing of your kind ruling us towards our own demise under … Continue reading To That Kind
How Ethiopia became the first African nation to defeat a European force, following the partition of Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1885 is something worth sharing in the content African governments feed our children. Italian Prime Minister, Francesco Crispi went on a colonising spree in the mother continent following the partition of Africa during … Continue reading Ethiopia, The only African nation that resisted the partition of Africa.
Where do the hurt ones go, When our pain reveals itself?Where do the hurt ones go, when those who did us wrong avail themselves?Was our safety ever really a thing? Or is it our vulnerability that fuels this dead ride?Where do the hurt ones go, when our homes are turned into torture valleys?Where do the … Continue reading Where Do The Hurt Ones Go?
When everything seemed to be going south in that relationship I thought was solid and built on pure intentions, negative thoughts began to swim inside my head corrupting my mind with anger and vengeful ideas.You see no one is ever really ready to swallow a pill that may uncover the mask that had them believing … Continue reading My Tower Moment
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