I just knew Truth and Dare game was a bad idea when the girls suggested it. I showed disinterest but everyone said “it’s just a game” so I succumbed.
The game ruined my night, it dug out a memory which I have struggled to bury, a memory that came with a heavy wave of guilt.
When President Obasanjo temporarily removed fuel subsidy in 2003 or thereabout, fuel price climbed from N26 to N42. People grumbled as usual, but did you know his response? That, if Nigerians are willing to buy a bottle of beer for more money, why complain about the cost of fuel?
Labor Congress wasn’t having it. They protested so hard and nearly crashed the economy and Obasanjo grudgingly reinstated fuel subsidy in 2006!
So where did Nigerians learn this culture of suffering and smiling today? How did you go from paying N42 a liter to N1,370 a liter with no pushback?
Our artists exchanged the chance for collaboration for mean tweets and "Ogbafia dey for ground."
And you people cheered. They cheated you, shortchanged you with a poor exchange rate.
You asked for hits, new gems and cultural advancement. They force-fed you status slop.
M.anifest raps like a man who understands that hip-hop is more than entertainment. It is memory, literature, philosophy, rhythm, and cultural preservation all at once. His pen doesn’t just create bars; it creates layers that reveal themselves with time. His pen game is so 🔥
do artistes use verses to pay back debts? like they’re owing someone or a corporation and they are required to give another artiste verse for free or collab with another artiste and then the money is recovered from the royalties or something?
That West Ham fan who mocked Declan Rice’s “last and only trophy” is now watching West Ham get relegated on the very day Rice finally lifts a silverware
In the cool evening breeze off the Lagos lagoon, I sat on my veranda overlooking the slums, reflecting on life while sipping palm wine and eating fried rice with beans cake as the sun set.