I learned a valuable lesson recently — work now, dream later. Maybe it’s actually a lesson I’ve been learning slowly all my life, but it wasn’t until the last year or two I finally got the actual point of various…

We all have boundaries. We have moral boundaries, belief boundaries, and physical boundaries. Sometimes it feels like life is one big boundary, a line most of us stay the right side of whilst watching others play hopscotch with ill-disguised disgust…

My mother is an avid watcher of the Richard Quest show on CNN, her favorite news channel. Recently the show did a segment on Nigeria, reporting on the current economic situation in the country. For those of you who aren’t…

My name is Dobi, which is really short for Adaobi, a name traditionally given to the first-born, or only daughter in an Igbo family. It literally means ‘daughter of the house’.   

The Igbos put a lot of importance in a…

 During University in London I spent best part of first year’s student loan on a bass guitar and amp, microphone, a 4-track digital recorder, and other gadgets that I used to record my first attempts at solo songwriting. I discovered…