The Week I Died

“In the ethereal darkness of my conscious mind, I considered reopening my eyes. ‘This place with the blinding bright white light must be heaven,’ I thought. Then, I started hearing a voice. It was a familiar one, but I couldn’t understand what it was saying. ‘What if this isn’t heaven? What if there is no heaven and I’ve actually reincarnated as a newborn baby and that’s why I don’t understand what the voice is saying?’ I opened my eyes, and the place was the same. Then, a blurry dark figure crept up from my left, hovering over me.”

The Wounded Socialization of a Muslim-Christian Child

“By the time I was 6 years old, I was used to the Imam of our local mosque speaking highly of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) as he declared that Christians were only playing themselves. At my mother’s church, pastors would roar that because one must accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior to enter heaven, Muslims are doomed. Each side professed that the other was fooling me, and both sides demanded my solidarity at the front where my socialization as a young child was wounded.”

A Speech on Femininity and Sexual Violence against Women in Nigeria

“At the core of our society is the belief that women and femininity are solely for the satisfaction of male sexual desire. This is also the reason why we struggle to understand homosexuality. Our proverbs instruct us to think this way. Our films and music reinforce this ideology.”