Everyone gets tired of looking at sunset pictures. Photo editors aren’t big fans of them either. Growing up in Nigeria close to both the Lagoon and Atlantic Ocean, we were always blessed with some fantastic sunsets – a combination of humidity, the dwindling sun, silhouettes of native vegetation, and soggy clouds. On a recent trip [...]

I had a sign-out sheet with a backlog of students waiting in line to borrow one of my books. The year was 1993 and I was in a tough boarding school back in Africa. By 14, I’d written about 25 stories that filled 50+ large notebooks. I’d cut out pictures from glossy magazines, glue them [...]