This Is One Of My Most Controversial Books Yet
I just finished the manuscript of my 3rd book. It has required a lot of sleepless nights and soccerless days, but its finally done. I am particularly excited...
Lately Life Has Been Hard For Me In Nigeria by @katehallet
Life has been…hard lately for me in Nigeria. During most of March and April I have had serious electricity and water issues in my house. This makes a...
Biafra: When I Turned 30
When I turned 30 my father began telling me stories about the Biafran war. At first his stories were sporadic and short, but soon they became more routine and...
Suffering and Bloody Smiling #BokoHaram
I remember when I was little and I watched all the bombings in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, I used to wonder how people still lived in those countries. And...
The Faceless Victims #Boston #BokoHaram
When tragedy happens in the West we mourn because of the cruelty of the act but mostly because of the victims. Because we know the victims, we know their...
My Weird Beef With Chinua Achebe
I don’t necessarily agree with Chinua Achebe on a lot of things. For instance, I felt that his ending to his first book Things Fall Apart was bad. Bad...
7 Mistakes Our Generation Must Avoid If We Do Not Want To Screw Up Nigeria Again
The generator generation. We know who we are, we were birth with the sounds of generators vibrating consistently through our ears. We have smelled the pungent...
TEDx Video: Our Dangerous Addiction To Intelligence
This is the TEDx talk I did in Abuja last year Our Dangerous Addiction To Intelligence. I wrote about it here and now you get to see the actual video (yipee)...
When In Trouble…Just Yell
You are driving…you get pulled over by LASTMA or the Nigerian Police, they accuse you of violating a traffic rule. They point to the traffic sign, but...
