Category : WILT

One, people show themselves in adversity. It’s in adversity that you know who is for you, who is against you, who was using you or who is just not strong enough to be with you. Two, adversity is a gift, it clarifies who

There’s too much stigma in Nigeria and in so many societies on the African continent. We stigmatize everything. You know, one of the blessings of my life is that I do not respect stigma. I remember the first time I was going to

You see, in the complexity of our lives, there are moments of profound simplicity that can teach us invaluable lessons. The story of the thief on the cross is one such powerful narrative that reminds us of the core essence of faith and

I sat in church listening to Pastor Sam Adeyemi – and, being a crybaby, I began to shed soft tears. It wasn’t just about the message. It was really the affection I suddenly felt for all the great gifts of revelation this one

I woke up one morning on a major film that we just finished, and the brilliant, genius editor had sent me the third first cut. I’d seen the first cut and I’m like , ‘I’ll pretend I didn’t see that first cut’. Second

You know, I just realized that over the past few months, I’ve been highly critical of my Gen Z baddies. I first came out of a phase where I was very defensive of Gen Zs, and I went into the phase where I’m

It’s really deeply sad for me that there are so many young people who are leaving this country, and you can’t even marshall an intellectually rigorous argument for why they shouldn’t leave. There are too many of us who have given up on

Many years ago, I remember being at a World Economic Forum meeting and looking at Nigerian billionaires hustling like they were just coming out of NYSC. There was no calm or contentment. And I thought:these were the people I wanted to be like,

It took one of the finest spiritual teachers I found when it comes to Christianity,  Rob Bell, to explain to me that the beatitudes are about Jesus Christ’s capacity for empathy to say, I see you, I feel you, I understand you. We

Life! Much of the time we are just hanging by a thread of it and everything can change, just change, just change. When you face something that torpedoes everything you thought about life, then you realise that position, money beyond its uses for