Saturday Morning Rantings │ Muyiwa Olasehinde

Well, basically, it is Saturday Morning and, with no fixed schedule for the day, I am in a mood to rant.

I recently began another phase in my academic verve and in the pursuit of purpose in the "Hippocraticean" order and while it might be too premature to begin my doxologies and eulogies, I want to jump the gun.

Though it might be more convenient to be grateful for the various victories, successes and good-times that I have been privy to over the years, I am more grateful for the challenging times, the seemingly intractable days, the gloominess that envelopes my heart each time I failed, that despair I feel each time when I seemed so helpless, the pain of purpose and the sorrow of a determined skin.

I am most grateful, however, for the lessons I have picked over the years, the thick skin I have grown, the seemingly painless way I always seemed to bounce back, even if just for a moment, and the person I have grown to be today.

I can look back and say with all sense of assurance that my dreams have not been shattered. I have not lost a bit of courage than I had five, 10 or 20 years ago. I have gotten better at life and stronger at fights (and maybe bigger in size?)

Today, I look forward to the future with much assurance and dignity knowing that whatever encounters I have is only a chapter in the book that will surely pass. The visions and dreams for the future are still as intact as when I began seeing them fourteen (14) years ago and I am propelled on by the little part that I have seen materialise before me.

P.S. I know this does not exactly qualify as a "rant" but I just couldn't find another vocabulary to depict what I was doing.

My Thoughts on "Half of a Yellow Sun - The Movie" │ Muyiwa Olasehinde

I just finished seeing the movie adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's award winning novel and smacking in the euphoria of such great production and heart rending story, I want to share a few thoughts.

I have not read the novel and I hear that the movie isn't totally a 'sceneric' representation of the book but the viewer is captivated in the story flow and the professionalism with which the cast interpreted their roles, albeit unfamiliar.

Heart wrenching is the only way I can describe the emotion I felt while watching the scenes of war - the anguish of losing a loved one, the despair of a lost hope for survival, the massive destruction and desolation associated with war, shattered dreams...

...how some politicians still

GOD’S ACCOUNT IS BLANK: HE HAS GOT NO MONEY │ Banji Odurombi

I won’t beg you to read on. Such staggering statements are not popular in this part of the world. Well, it is why we have remained where we are. Staggering statements said to me are as ghosts sealed up in their wooden home. I do not let them go and you had better not.

  To the subject at hand! 

Certain questions ran through my mind as I shared a thought with a brother. I said to him ‘Whatever you do, do it with a global mindset’. Jesus walked the face of the earth in the relatively unknown town called Nazareth, yet everybody that must have come in contact with the Christian faith must have been acquainted with the name just by keeping the account of Jesus’ earthly walk in Israel. And if Judas, had known that his act of stealing from the disciples treasury would have been read all around the world, perhaps he would have had a re-think. When I read ‘Judas…, not Iscariot…’ in the Bible, I came to realize that those little actions in your mind, done in school, room, etc. can have a global impact, either inspiring people to imitate or as a form of instruction not to follow.