I was stained by failure.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.