Brittish-blogger-posting-from-Sweden Mark Base tagged me the other day and wanted me to write 8 random facts about myself. Since I have already written five at You’re it! I thought I would get away with writing only three. However, the previous tagging was supposed to state weird or funny things about oneself. Mark’s rules state just [...]

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Having read through many of the articles of the June issue of the NewAfrican magazine that my friend brought to me this weekend, I am left with a heavy feeling, wondering why the world is such a sad place. Copyright Eden Foundation At first glance, Stella Orakwue seems like any educated young author who is [...]

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Copyright Eden Foundation Ugo Daniels actually inspired this post, because his yam festival contribution in the past edition of the Beautiful Africa blog carnival it immediately made me think of a quote from Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart: “Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop.” As you have found out by now, [...]

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Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Strangely, answering the standard greeting phrase “How are you doing?” in a single word (or sentence!) is harder than explaining faith to someone who doesn’t believe. Although I cannot answer “Fine” or “All is well” when asked how [...]

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It’s amazing what lack of sleep can do to you. After a week of profound joy and internal peace in the midst of human despair, I finally had my moment of weakness. That was yesterday, and I just couldn’t understand why my heart kept hardening at the weirdest of things, why things didn’t want to [...]

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There are different times for everything.   There is a time to be joyful, and a time to be sad. There is a time to laugh, and a time to cry. This should be a time of darkness, and similar situations have previously tormented my soul. This time however, it’s all different. I feel neither [...]

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After a very painful night with no sleep, my mother was finally brought to hospital early yesterday morning by ambulance. My sister and I joined her a few hours later and stayed until reception hours were over; having a very good time together. I have decided to stay off work for some time, even though [...]

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My mother and I, Cyprus 1983 Once again, I don’t exactly know what to say, but the difference between tonight and two posts ago is that this time, I’m not feeling down. Things have been looking very gloomy indeed and my mother is getting weaker by the day. Today, she could hardly walk and her [...]

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