I haven’t written anything on my Medium in a really long time. Almost two years to be exact, but let’s not dwell on that. I just got home after an evening out celebrating a friend’s birthday, and I find myself here, on my computer, doing one of the things I…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote something in The Thing Around Your Neck that put my eyes at a standstill. She said that one of the reasons “big men” preferred to remain in Nigeria rather than America, is because America does not recognize them as big men in the way that a…

(And a few things I’ve learned along the way) Creating is hard. This isn’t news to most people, regardless of how much or how little of themselves they put out into the world. …

The Nigeria that I grew up in is one that, at the time, was extremely one dimensional both in the societal norms and cultural expectations shouldered by adolescent people. …

There is a scene in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” where Bruce Wayne rages into a club in the grimy city underbelly. He barges in, fuming over being deprived a chance to avenge the death of his parents, and he encounters the face of Gotham’s organized crime syndicate. He stares…