This piece is short, precise and straight to the point. Issues raised therein may be obvious and simple, but their implications have far reaching consequences. I will be asking few questions that you can relate with, and answering them honestly will grant you clarity and direction for the New Year. A brief about 2020 I was conversing with a friend yesterday before I started this piece. I asked her about this year and all she could tell me was: "This year was Omoh... E be things" (A Nigerian will know and relate with this phrase). What is your perfect description for the year 2020? P personally, the year 2020 has been life-defining for me. Has it been a tough year? Yes, it has. Has it been challenging? OF course. I strongly believe we all can look back and see milestones and watersheds we have used to marked out experiences of the year 2020. It will be said that 2020 was the year that the world was plunged by a pandemic, setting the whole of humanit

  T wo nights ago, I was conversing with a friend. She told me that she has phobia for two things: taking pictures and using voice notes while chatting on the social media. Well, I told her knowing her phobias is halfway way solving them and growing through them. One of the ways we grow and evolve is facing our fears headlong, and this does not happen in our comfort zones. We all have fears. Fears that stare us in the face every day. Two things will always happen when it comes to our fears; we either face them, grow through the process or they stare us intimidatingly and keep us in their grip continuously. Whichever way, we always have a choice – face your fears or they scare the life out of you. In one of my recent piece on putting yourself out there, I highlighted that one of the major reasons people find it hard to put themselves out there is fear. Fear of criticism and public scrutiny, fear of failure and fear of so many factors that are often unknown. And

  T wo weeks ago, we had a meeting with the chamber of BookTroverts (a book club I am part of). The meeting was scheduled for 2pm, but we could not start till around few minutes to 3pm. For the three of us who were early, we got talking on time, timing and the concept of African time. We did asked several questions, cited some relevant instances and raised quite a number of issues that need answering and can form a major societal discourse. Have you ever asked yourself who invented African time and popularized it? I mean who in his right sense would propound such a concept? Who were its early apostles? Who were those responsible for passing the culture of African time from one generation to another even to our generation? Because there is such thing as Africa time, does that mean Africans have their time separately or more than 24 hours in a day? Truth is I can go on and on asking several questions on African time and I bet you, there won’t be justifiable univer