Chasing hope
My father had it all laid out. He hoped that at least one of his children would become a medical doctor, one would become an engineer and one would become… Read more »
When All We Do Is Sit, We Fall
Dietrich Boenhoeffer was a German pastor who lived from February 4, 1906 until April 9, 1945. As a young boy, he witnessed World War I from 1914 to 1918. He… Read more »
In Defence of Brilliance
From one end of the world to another, nations, communities and organizations are now ruled by individuals who know very little about the world or even about the people who… Read more »
The Tangled Webs That We Weave
I have made many mistakes in my life and, I think some could have been potentially life-altering. In spite of my current station in life, I remember some of the… Read more »
Nigeria: Bent, Broken, And Still Home
I have just recently returned from a trip to Nigeria, the country of my birth….my homeland. Certainly, the famous Nigerian poet, John Pepper Clark, might well have been writing about… Read more »
Today, I Live …And I Am Grateful
I have just marked a birthday! At no time in my adulthood have I considered my birthday as party time. For many years in my adulthood, it was just a… Read more »
The Long, Arduous Trek To Social Justice
Recently, I stumbled on my first-ever published work, South Africa’s Bondage Ties Us All. Written and published in a local newspaper in 1989, I argued in that short article that none… Read more »
The Ghosts of Our Fathers
As a young man, I thought that the idea that our actions out-lived us and were capable of potentially impacting the people and society that we left behind was uniquely… Read more »
The Collapse Of Common Sense
I was only about 13 years old when one of my teachers, an old man who had been a politician in his prior life, wondered aloud if open-book examinations had… Read more »
WHEN THE PROTAGONIST IS EXCUSED FROM RESPONSIBILITY
The world is in trouble! There is no way to sugar coat or overstate the reality. Put otherwise, it would be a lie – and we are taught that it… Read more »