"I think I'm successful. I think I have success. I think I have been blessed with success…"
Sola Osofisan
Sola Osofisan
Sola Osofisan is a writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His movies include 'Unbreakable' (2018, Screenwriter, Co-Producer), 'Over Her Dead Body' (2020, Screenwriter, Producer, Director). His award-winning radio play, OLD LETTERS, was produced and broadcast by the BBC. A three-time winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors national awards (prose and poetry), he is the author of DarkVisions (Malthouse), Darksongs, The Living & the Dead (Heinemann) and Blood Will Call.
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Why do Africans go back home and then call it a vacation when the whole point of a vacation is to escape from home?
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Hot roast of pork sandwich with mashed potatoes…They caught and killed the pig already so you don't have to worry about that…
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It is assumed that Nigerians abroad do menial work, suffer, get oppressed, derided, and barely scrape a living. Well, all that and much more!
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A voice on the phone in the middle of the night: Call Nigeria! Call home! Call Now!
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You can always get better, do more, fly higher, reach farther…
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If you hear tomorrow that I've been struck down by lightning, here's why…
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You're calling my "bottom portmanteau" a halloween costume?
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Want to know where they eat human beings in Africa?
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If you can't convince the ones currently at home to cease seeking for the first opportunity to bail out, how will you assure the ones outside they stand a chance …
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The story is told of a Nigerian who arrived JFK from Lagos and was returned to Lagos via the next outgoing flight… He had valid papers.
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The news programs in America are doing the American people a disservice by keeping them in the dark about the rest of the world…
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Lagos is a state under siege, my friends. That's what you call leisurely robbery attacks that go on for hours without any police assistance in sight.
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Who is the audience of the immigrant creator of art? Has he exiled himself from relevance by moving away from his country…and all the cultural elements that give his art …
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The Hispanics are suddenly commanding more attention from businesses and politicians because they are about to eclipse the reign of the Blacks in America as the most populous minority in …