Articles I've written

Walk through any major African city and pay attention to what you see.Glass towers that belong in Dubai.Churches that look like they were lifted from the American South and dropped onto West African s…

There is a particular kind of Saturday morning that nobody warns you about when you start a business.Your site is down. Not slow. Down. A customer sent you a message asking if you were still operating…

There is a man who walks my street most mornings. He carries his goods on his head. No shop, no signage, no logo. Just him, the sun, and whatever he has decided to sell that week. Some mornings, it is…

My friend called me Incognito Rastaman. He said it laughing. The kind of laugh that is also a little bit of an accusation. We had been on a Snapchat streak, the two of us, the way old friends do when …

There is a question nobody asks you when you get promoted.Not “are you ready?” That one gets asked. Not “do you have what it takes?” That one gets implied. The question nobody asks is this: are you wi…

Poverty is often understood as the absence of money. Yet in many societies, poverty is not merely a financial condition; it is also an expensive way to exist.This is one of the great contradictions of…

Human beings rarely see life the same way forever.What we believe at any point in time shapes how we interpret everything around us; what is good, what is bad, what is possible, and what is meaningful…