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Jo’s Read-List No.2 of 2025
Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth – Jim Collins This book was gifted to me by Ms Blessing Kudeng, the bookseller in the Faculty of Law, University of Jos, when I was in my third or fourth year. I did not read it…
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Jo’s Read-List No.1 of 2025
Twenty Twenty-five was a topsy-turvy, up-and-down year that we survived, thanks to God. Amidst the hustle and bustle of life, I managed to read a few books. Now, I had intended to do a full review for each book, but life happened (life is still happening). Yet I’m determined to…
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Dear God: Letter from an Earthling to her Heavenly Father #1
Dear Heavenly Father, Good evening. I am writing to You under circumstances that are not ideal because, for a while now, ambivalence has threatened to drown me. Granted, I am a mixed bag. I am contradictory even to myself on any given day. However, I am not, as Your child,…
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Thirty: Class of 2025 – A Valedictory Speech
Good morning Class of 2025, graduates of the Great Twenties. Yes, go on. We all deserve that applause. Thank you for selecting me as the class valedictorian. The decade we thought was endless is finally closing its curtain. I am not entirely sure how to feel about this. Before writing…
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The Karamazov Brothers: Fifteen Noteworthy Quotations
The sixteen-year-old me, who could barely read Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for A’ Levels, would marvel at my comprehension of a dense book like The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I have since changed these past thirteen years. I do not confine my reading to only ‘African Literature’ (as I…