Love and Tennis (Part 1: Love-15)
Romantic love is like the sport of tennis, a player’s seeding or ranking fluctuates; but sometimes, an unseeded wildcard stuns everyone and wins the Grand Slam Effiong Samuel One game I would love to play is tennis. I started having an interest when my late brother used to play. He wanted to teach me, but […]
LONG-RADIUS ELBOW
I watch football a lot, but I do not always agree with all the rules: offsides, tackles, penalties and many more. I also disagree with the uneven way punishments are sometimes meted out during a match. For example, I still find it hard to comprehend why an elbow is such a crime. Two players jump and one […]
To Achebe
Of what use is the pen when the ink is dry? Why should I hide this pain when it makes me cry? With this sword you took the world by storm, With this rod you became its beloved son You captured minds and held them as a piece You beckoned the world to trace the path of […]
Life is a Sport: Sack Race
They say I have an athletic stature (the large bones in particular), but I had seen sports nightmares as a kid. So, to really love sports beyond keeping fit and healthy is what I cannot imagine. This has left my extra passion for sports on TV and in electronic games. Having older ones who did […]
Commissioning
There is one thing about engineering that I don’t like. It is the way it borrows words from other professions and claim them, taking the words as if they were its own. The first time I heard the word “commissioning” at work, I was thinking of scissors and ribbons and agbadas and cameras and party and fanfare. […]
you can eat your cake…ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE IT
“Yesterday was Pastry Day!” It was not declared by the United Nations, but by me. The excitement of the public holidays had made me think that a day was also included in the list of public holidays for pastries. “I had a dream, in it, I went to work and missed pastry lessons, resulting in […]
Why Black Lives Don’t Matter
In 2003 I was one young person that had a passion for many professions: from Journalism to Engineering, Fine Arts to Architecture. On one of those career-wish nights, I glued my eyes to the TV screen, cheering our own Ibiba DonPedro to clinch the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award. She won as I […]
Connecting People To Nature: A 2017 World Environment Day Memoir
I looked for a picture I took or was taken of me that showed me really close to nature. There were several to choose from. Someone told me to upload a picture of me carrying a baby chimpanzee. It was taken by the sister of Lisa Gadsby, the co-founder of Pandrillus (visit https://www.pandrillus.org/). It was […]
Black Panther: The Review
A couple of people asked me to do this, but I took my time, sieving through positive and negative reviews and comments about the movie. Obviously, I knew the story-line by heart and had watched it more like a movie critic than anyone else. I will however bore you with these details: 1. THE LIFE-LINEFor […]
Let’s Talk About Sex
Let me start with you, especially if you are young. How are you reading this article? What will you do if someone tries to look over your shoulder at what you are reading? Probably you may think of quickly scrolling to another page, pretending that you were reading something else. I will not blame you […]