Even if I didn’t pay attention to Susan Boyle’s melancholic I Dreamed a Dream, Les Misérables with the voice of Anne Hathaway taught me that there are dreams that simply cannot be and there are some storms we cannot weather but I didn’t bother because nothing was going to stop…

Gold, Fire, and Everything Else. Sometimes, it is not difficult to ask “why all these pains?”. In fact, I believe that as human beings we tend to ask questions about our situations when things are going right for us. For instance, I have not met many people who still ponder and wonder for the good…

Good Things are Going to Come There is always a turning point. Yes, I know this. But it depends on where this turning point is pointing. It either turns to the good or bad. But when it’s been bad, it gets good. That’s what an optimist would say. Life is not fair and it takes a…

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives...Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. - George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire). I think one of…

The most common comment after the death, in many cases, suicide, of young men is "I didn’t know he was going through all that". I find the comment as an attempt to Pontius pilate your way out of being uncaring to the extent of seeing through the walls many built…

The Tides of Iseyin (7 Final Part) — Eating With the Pack I carry the seasons in Iseyin with me and I carry in my heart the lessons of each season. As another season starts for me in a place not Iseyin, I can’t stop thinking about how far I’ve…

When Bob Hearts Abishola premiered in September 2019, I was elated because of the potential the Rom-com had of rewriting the misrepresentation of Africans in American Tv history. I was so happy I wrote about what it felt like as a a Yoruba person to be watching his culture properly…

Why do people fear talking about existential facts or why do they dread them? The most difficult aspect of living for many people is thinking and talking about the facts of life. Not like it will change anything, but not talking and thinking about them will not stop them from…

The Tides of Iseyin (6) — My Father Once Told Me. Many things are subjects of many debates; that mothers are revered, held in awe than fathers should be a universal truth. Do not put into consideration the number of mothers' days we have. Consider things said about mothers and…