IMAX'S CORNER

I've always liked old people. I love watching them, listening to them, and admiring the lives they've lived. I feel a bulk of this feeling comes from being friends with my grandpa. You see beyond being my grandfather, Blackie made sure he was my friend. He has a name that only he calls me, and although he is more than eighty years older than I am, I still call him Blackie (yes, that's his actual name). From as far as I can remember, he held conversations with me not as grandfather-to-child but as friends. We discussed everything, from being born on "one fateful Afor day when Obiokala was taking his Alor title", to his days as a "dangerous prosecutor" while he served with the Nigerian Police Force, to his romance story in Isale Eko, to starting a family and loosing his beloved wife. Everything.  Although at six I might not have understood a lot about loosing a partner, but  I knew he needed a listening ear so I lent him mine. I couldn't offer much, bu...

Dearest Gentle Readerrrrrrr, How do you say graduate in Igbo? (Nothing concern this Illah girl with Spanish.) Maybe “gladgete,” the way Odumeje says it, but either way, your girl is now a BSc holder. Somebody hold me because I can’t hold myself. Can you tell I’m excited? If you can’t, well, I am. I am literally over the moon. I just finished reading one of my favourite newsletters, and it motivated me to write to you because the letter asked how my week was. So, rather than replying under their comment section, I decided to tell you. I know I haven’t written to you in forever, and we have a lot of catching up to do, which we will. Hopefully, I keep my promise to myself and start writing to you more often. But before I continue, do me a big favour, will you? Open your music streaming app and play “See What the Lord Has Done” by Nathaniel Bassey. Whether you are Christian or not, please. I’ll wait. Have you done that? Okay then. Let’s get straight to it. Last Sunday, or maybe two Sunday...