1/3: A producer spent months developing a brilliant story.
Beautiful concept. Strong dialogue. Talented cast. But the audience never connected to it.
Why?
Because nobody shaped the emotional heartbeat of the story.
Scenes looked good, but they didn’t feel anything…
I miss when the Internet was less cruel sha. Even Ig then it was only your friends you would mostly see and you would only see updates of non followers when you literally went to look for it in one corner.
@LaceVine@Hybrid_Ola You will ask for Garri and God will give you beach sand. Imagine the audacity to come on Obasanjo’s internet to yarn absolute opata over ppl you don’t know in real life.
God forbid.
@Miss_Oluremi@keziah_ishaya If he doesn’t marry her; another person will marry her na. In 2026, you still think marriage is a favour to a woman, and you’re a woman yourself. FUNNY. 😄
Not condoning the woman’s disrespect but going ahead to have a baby with a woman you decide not to marry is foolishness
So there are people on this platform who never saw BankPHB, Oceanic Bank, Skye Bank, Equatorial Trust Bank.
Lots of babies on this platform. More reason not to argue with everyone.
The other day, some were arguing that spaghetti was never sold for N150.
@dammiedammie35 Both the person and the man the two of you are MAD. If he’s strong and agile enough to drive there, he can cross the road and perform his work. Is it for free? Na only women body una dey get power.
I am Nigerian, and right now my dream is bigger than me.
Only about 4.5% of medical literature globally are represented on Black skin.
That means millions of Black patients are learning from systems that barely look like them. Medical students study diseases on skin tones that are not their own. Doctors are trained with visual references that often fail Black bodies.
That gap has consequences.
So I am deciding to build towards changing it.
I’m starting with a book.
But the larger vision is far beyond that. I want to help build software and medical visualization tools that make Black medical representation impossible to ignore.
This is not just about diversity aesthetics, this is about accuracy, education, visibility and better healthcare outcomes.
One day, I want a Black child studying medicine anywhere on earth to see themselves fully represented in what they learn.
And I believe we can build that future.
I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.
The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.
At. All.
The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.
So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.
Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.
That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.
If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.
Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.
Them no really send any part of your papa at all.
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine:
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” - The Great Gatsby.
There was a time when the tragedy of writers was not making enough money to sustain themselves. The tragedy now of people trapped in writer bodies is that they have the money to buy entire libraries, but still cannot pay the price of entering the state of mind needed to write a good story.