Contemporary

Whenever my siblings and I visited Lagos during the school holidays, one of the very first questions my late mum and dad would ask us was, ‘ore mi nko?’, which roughly translated means ‘how’s my dear friend?’. The dear friend they were referring to was Queen Elizabeth II. They adored the queen and brought up […]

There I was, perched on my sofa, anticipating the start of another Ashes series with the feverish excitement of a five-year-old who’s been let loose in a candy store. Heaven only knows why, as it had been painfully obvious to me for several weeks that there was very little chance of England winning a single

They say life begins at fifty; or is it forty? Well, for this fast approaching fifty year-old, the former seems a far more appealing notion. Towards the end of January, it suddenly dawned on me that the fortuitous forties were fast coming to an end. My gut instinct was to allow the fifties to enter

According to Robert Booth, writing for the Guardian newspaper in February 2019, ‘new research suggests that the number of young people in the UK who say they do not believe life is worth living has doubled in the last decade, amid a sense of overwhelming pressure from social media which is driving feelings of inadequacy.