Toluse: A common sentiment amongst my fellow Nigerians is this idea that they did not know they were black until they moved to a Western country. This surprises me....
The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Economics: How Outdated Ideologies Continue to Shape Modern Capitalism and Erode the Middle Class As the world grapples with rising income inequality and the...
Why we choose to be FULL OF OURSELVES. Hey DT family, it’s been a while since we wrote to y’all and we wanted to change that. What inspired us...
Four years don waka but here I am in the same place. Against themselves, my thoughts still race in the region of my mind. But who I am now...
The stories told of how votes don’t count, of how a group of maniacal old men seat in a dark room pulling the strings of the political landscape, of...
Home no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your...
I read The Purity Myth years ago. Sometime between the ages of 16 and 19, Jessica Valenti put a name to the not-so-distant phenomenon I recognised growing up. The...
I was sitting in a hotel room with my father, still buzzing from the fun of a family night out, when Boris Johnson announced that ‘we should be prepared...
Decolonization is about understanding that our realities, and everything we consider the norm and acceptable, are made up by westernisation. Our idea of fun, families, economics and even love...
Kush, Maryjane, Reefer, Pot, and Grass are a few of the many names for the controversial drug cannabis. For some, cannabis is a Godsend, a natural plant helping people...
This article is mainly a compilation of works and essays from Alok Vaid Menon. I cringe and flinch every time I hear statements like “be a man”, “man up”,...
I think it’s about time we had this conversation. What happens when we treat culture as immutable? Society fails to develop; people cannot evolve, forcing everyone to adapt their...
PART 1 AVAILABLE HERE PART TWO: Religion and suffering ‘Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions....
“A religion that would be universal does not and cannot exist because any and every religion necessarily expresses a particular experience and worldview.” -Amen-Ra This argument has been made...
*[Please note that the author speaks mainly about Christianity because this is what the author has had a personal connection to. It is also the largest religion in the...