Life Abroad

For the great majority of Africans in the Diaspora, we cannot go back home. Some are economic refugees, while others are shame-induced refugees. We cannot go back to a continent that does not know what do with us...

“First you say you are doctor, now you say you are writer, my friend, which one are you? This is very suspicious o. In fact you have to come and see our Oga...”

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?

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. Such sentiments and values have unfortunately led to unintended and sometimes tragic consequences...

Not all groups that attempts to exert fear in the minds of a targeted population are terrorist groups. Some are nationalists groups or freedom fighters...

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 to kill the disease in my wife’s eyes. We ooohed and aaahed over tastefully furnished homes that we would never live in unless we won several hundred million dollars in a mega-lottery...

From the time of recorded history, leaders have always sought divine wisdom regarding complex issues. World Leaders now seek to circumvent the supernatural by devising a scientific method of analysis from courtiers now properly called “Special Advisers”...

It seems imperative that immigrants in this country, especially those of us from Africa, should begin to ask questions about our stake and welfare in this America where we live, work, pay taxes and raise up children...