We’d just finished our final exams and everyone was excited to have finally completed those long Undergraduate years. A group of friends and I huddled at the entrance to our architecture studio chatting and having fun, when one of us asked the question,
“So what next? What do you guys…
I am standing on the road shoulder on a busy Lagos street street. The traffic stretches out turning a curve away from sight. Getting out of the gridlocked was the only thing on my mind.
Ubers were getting ridiculously expensive (especially in traffic) and so I decided to take a…
The Success Story
Kamal Abubakr grew up like millions of children in the Abu Hamad slums of North-Eastern Sudan. The eighth of thirteen children, Kamal’s father could not afford to send any of his children to school so Kamal began to fend for himself much earlier than most Sudanese kids.
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Cleaning out my father’s house after his death remains the strongest memory of the series of events that unfolded over an unexpectedly short period in the life of a man I’d known my entire life.
It had all started with a phone call about his health, and the events had…
In the city of Lagos where there is no commuter route planning, and public transport is a nightmare, owning a car is a necessity and I am grateful I have one.
Most times as I travel from home to work, or my many other destinations across the city, I am…
This piece was inspired by observing a colony of ants carrying a millipede up an anthill. I am an architect in real estate, and no millipedes were harmed in the writing of this piece.
Real estate as an investment class, has proven to be a veritable store of value the…
I have two kids aged 4 and 7, and my parenting journey has been fraught with as much successes as failures. Some of those failures have sedimented into layers of regrets over the years, but I continue to look on the bright side of my many successes as each day…
Your new world is strange. There are many things to absorb as you grow within it. You are in the womb but you don’t know this. All you know are the things you can feel and see in this world. In time, you become familiar with the things that live…
Resistance is that thing that happens when you sit at your desk with a clear task ahead. You know what to do and you know the intended outcome. You flex your arms and roll both shoulders simultaneously. Stretch out fully and crack your fingers. It is a daunting task you…
Why America’s success stories may not apply to you as an African
Sam and Samantha are twins, the only children of all-American parents. Sam drops out of college out of sheer boredom and spends two years of his life doing stuff like train-hopping across America; travelling to India to live…
