Something interesting happened to me this year. I found myself searching the Internet, looking for, and acquiring several books by authors that nurtured me in my youth growing up in …
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When I left to visit Nigeria, I had only been in America ten years and so I hadn’t acquired the accent expected of a Nigerian-American. As for my hair, even …
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The West must learn a lesson that my American bank knows too well and it is this: When you give a military junta a loan, it is analogous to giving …
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Seriously, young man, so now, you have a child you can call your own…? Hmmm… Let me ask you a deeply profound and intellectual question: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
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Here in America, we live in a society that values the beauty of wildlife and also strives to respect the right of all living things to co-exist with human beings. …
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Lik a dutiful husband, I accompanied my wife to new home developments and we traipsed from model home to model home in search of that home that was powerful enough …
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Hope rises out of Africa like fresh steam out of a piping hot bowl of rice and stew. I rise to salute the courageous men and women that toil in …
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My friend, the blonde one teases me about carrying my passport. She doesn't have to worry, she is a pretty blonde American, she will travel the world naked and American …
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"Daddy! Daddy!" she shrieked, "The bus ride was bumpy!" Man, I really would have loved a bumpy bus ride to my primary school, FIVE miles from what passed as my …
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My father died for somebody’s dream of one Nigeria. Every morning he would go out to fight. And every morning my mother would cry. One day my father did not …