Locking the back door of the soul, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Everyone knew he was a ‘born again’. Looking back now, I suspect he wanted everyone to know. It was something he wanted to wear on his sleeve. He didn’t have the flamboyance of a guy whose job brought him in contact with Advertising Agencies and Marketing Executives of big companies. His dressing was neat but understated. He […]
An avoidable carnage
By Muyiwa Adetiba We all have our different ways of coping with tragedy. We could go into denial and hope the pain would pass away on its own. We could confront it and let the pain sear through our being as we try to exorcise it. Or we could wallow in self-pity and indulge in […]
We created this monster!!
By Muyiwa Adetiba We found ourselves experiencing another wave of lockdown in the country this week. It was not government this time that stopped people from going to work or performing their daily chores. This was in fact anti-government. Nigerians went out late last week to find largely peaceful protests on the streets that gradually […]
Is the earth crying out? Could it cry out?
By Muyiwa Adetiba Would we treat the earth differently if we realised it was in anguish? Would our attitude be different if we knew we would be held accountable for our uses and abuses of the planet? Theseweresome of the questions that crossed my mind more than once during the enforced lockdown and more recently, […]
Forthcoming American election exposes the bad and the good
MUYIWA ADETIBA Those who watched this week’s Presidential debate would have had to listen hard to believe they were watching an American Presidential Debate and not a backwater debate from some backwater country. The absence of decorum was embarrassing. One of the two contestants came to fight dirty. He succeeded. The other wanted to rise […]
Does it have to come to this?
Muyiwa Adetiba Here is a story of a man with four wives and eighteen children. He was an educated man who studied law in the UK. When asked by friends who had a similar educational background but who were content with two, three children, he was quick to tell them he did not plan it […]
