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THE ROCKET

ByMoyo Okediji

I met a young woman living in Nigeria online more than ten years ago.

We became friends and exchanged lots of chats.

She had just graduated with a degree in engineering.

She couldn’t get a job.

I watched her struggle for many years.

A really gorgeous woman transformed into a shell of herself.

Her mother fell ill.

She began to live with her married sister.

She fell ill.

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EDIBLE URBAN LANDSCAPES AND MOBILE GARDENS

ByMoyo Okediji

The south needs to cultivate edible urban landscapes.

Nigeria has an ecology that permits the cultivation of food plants throughout the year.

The edible urban landscape means that the cities and town of the south should be cleared of weeds, and every available space must be turned into a vast food-producing landscape, all the way from Ilorin to Port Harcourt.

a picture showing moyo okediji poised for the camera facing the tabke with his arm on his cheeks and behind him is one of his art piece

José, my gardener.

ByMoyo Okediji

I looked out through the window. The grass was not yet tall enough to mow. It had rained, and green life was returning to Austin after the long winter, and spring was almost fully here.

But the snowstorm of a month ago in Texas dealt Austin a cruel hand and plant life has not really recovered.

“José,” I said, “The lawn doesn’t need you yet. Maybe in a week, two?”

“I need the money, Mr. Moyo,” José pleaded.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MUMU

THE UNIVERSITY OF MUMU

ByMoyo Okediji

I took a break from social media but returned when someone sent me a video of Sunday Igboho.

I transcribed a clip of the video and wanted to share it here.

If you read the following statement by Sunday Igboho, you will shake your head in disbelief.

Sunday Igboho, the kind of person we refer to as a stark illiterate, is the one leading the entire Yoruba nation, and one of the very few people making any sense in the country called Nigeria.

Is it not clear to us by now that our educational system in Nigeria is just a scam?

We all attended the University of Mumu in Nigeria—under various names.

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Less than 1000 people are holding the entire country of Nigeria to ransom.

ByMoyo Okediji

Less than 1000 people are holding the entire country of Nigeria to ransom.

And they are all blind and deaf.

They are practically no more than 1000 people destroying the lives of two hundred million people.

These blind and deaf people include governors, senators, national assembly members and other appointed officials who have turned the national treasury into their mothers’ pot of stew.

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GOOD FAKE NEWS

ByMoyo Okediji

Photo: still in solitary confinement at home.

I’m not taking the vaccine.

Not yet.

Waiting to see what happens.

The lack of sunlight is depleting the melanin shield of my skin.

But I take Vitamin D supplements to compensate for a lack of access to sunlight.

Last night I was looking for my pet elephant and discovered it was hiding inside my beard.

That’s fake news.

Good fake news.