I wrote this about the concept of Trauma Tapping in the tradition of African Storytelling. Illustration by my friend and illustrator Gerard Osenele Ukpan. A Little Bird This is the story about the gazelle that cannot sleep, and at the waterhole meets the zebra and wants to talk about it. The gazelle wonders if it […]
It is a Cycle
Sometimes a complete thought arrives between sleep and awake in the morning. I call them Morning thoughts. There is no beginning, there is no end. There is no line of time carrying us in a single direction. It is a cycle. From the smallest breath, to the day, to the week, month and seasons…. it is […]
One of The One of The Ones
This is a text that appeared in my head one morning, just before waking up fully. One of The One of The Ones I am one. One of the ones of the one. Like every other feeling creature. When riches happen I will not mass them and gloat in them, I will put them to […]
Let Babylon Fall!
This popped into my head in the voice of a Rasta Fari. “An we will prosper”, he said and truly he an she who prosper DO prosper… bat wattabout da rest? I did not claw myself out of the womb of my creating mudda in a pile of blood to have somebody else claim my […]