BUSAYO A.

There's no party like a Yoruba party. And I admire how people are able to come together to celebrate both small and big wins

My story ends with an almost happy ending. Almost. Because I am deeply fascinated by endings that are open-ended. That are not real endings.

But really, the big underlying hurt I noticed in this book is the loss of agency that Niger deltans have in what happens to their own land

To close out the year, why not do so with a review of a book that is about all of the many wondrous ways that love can exist.

Is that longing ever even satisfied in us? When we go back to a place we feel at home in, is that longing ever really quenched, or just quie

The second night, there were fewer streetlamps, and more mountains. I knew I was getting closer to home.

Ideas are what civilizations are built on in the end. But what ideas matter? Which ones lead us towards better?

And now, I think about this painting, of this woman sitting in a chair, likely in her house, pre-occupied in the easy brightness of her own.