“Truth is bitter” is an all too familiar expression. As it seems to me, the expression borrows its validity from an understanding of “bitter” as the opposite of “sweet” — chocolaty, ice-creamy, sweet — as such, the antithesis of comfort and the comfortable. Many English words and adages ought to…

Kendrick Lamar recently put out a new song ahead of his fourth-coming album, Mr. morales & the Big Steppers, due to be realised on May 13, 2022. The album will be his first studio album since the release of DAMN in 2017. This album is a highly anticipated one, not…

These days, there is a tendency to speak of vulnerability as intrinsic to empathy. “We are all humans”, or as John Legend sings, “we are just ordinary people”. …

On the 26th of January, I was invited to moderate the after-screening conversation of “Oil Promises”, a film that looks at Ghana’s aftermath of oil discovery in 2007. The film focuses on the inhabitants of the coastal town known as Princess Town, directly connected to the offshore where the oil…

Who are these stones washed ashore? A friend told me the other day, via a chat, that the earth has a heartbeat — something called the Schumann Resonance. This is new to me. In any case, it is claimed that the heartbeat of the earth has been rising in the…

There is so much to be admired about Burna Boy’s sixth and newest studio album, Twice As Tall, beyond its musical feat. If one considers a musical album an artistic body of work, there is much to be said about form and content as much as where it sits in…

On the 27th of May, a video surfaced online showing a police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man lying on the floor and handcuffed. The policeman continued to pin the man to the ground even as he pleaded for his life. “I can’t breathe” he…

I have been thinking about this whole Corona Virus saga in a more cogitative way. What is it trying to say or reveal to us in its globally frenzied nature? For instance, why does it seem like it is taking out mostly the older members of the society while preserving…

The Malian singer and guitarist, Rokia Traoré was arrested by the French authority, at the behest of their Belgian counterpart, as she arrived at the Charles de Gaulle Airport on Tuesday March 10. …