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I have a problem with color

In recent months, I've been thinking a lot about the history of the use of color to refer to people. Why we do it and how it began. As a current human, you probably know that races are primarily divided into black, white, and brown.

The Dog's True Fate

"The patient dog eats the fattest bone". Nearly every child who grew up in Nigeria knows that quote; it was told and repeated to us everywhere: at home, in schools, in markets, and in religious places.

Against dating apps

It could be the compression of complex human personalities into pictures and words that makes me hate them, or the fact that people turn themselves into filters because of the sheer magnitude of choices they've unlocked, but my contempt for dating apps extends beyond that.

Annie Ernaux Truly Deserved the Nobel Prize

The importance of Annie winning the Nobel prize is that great work was brought into the limelight for many of us to notice.

Simulating Nigeria

Over the last few weeks, I've been doing a lot of things to make me feel at home, whether it's through the type of food I eat, the music I listen to, or the movies I see.

Dear Tobore, or America through my eyes and ears.

I thought it was finally time to leave behind some of the things I'd known, but it’s been hard. Nigeria is that obsessed girlfriend that follows you everywhere, she’s in your voice, your face, your name, your careless mannerisms. You might leave Nigeria, but she doesn’t leave you.

A concerto of goodbyes in 5 parts.

I was moving to a new country, and I had to say a lot of goodbyes in the last 2 months. I wanted to write about some of those moments.

Journey Through Niger

  • Kelvin Paschal
  • Essays
  • July 30, 2022
What started as a happy journey to Ile-Ife one Tuesday morning, turned into an unexpected journey through Niger state. I felt a deep sense of fear and unease, but everything I saw kept distracting me from feeling that emotion.
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