AFRICA

The mobility challenge faced by African cuisines in an increasingly technological age is unacceptable. So, when recently I stumbled on a writing about a certain food app called DishAfrik, with its ambitious catalogue of curated African cuisines, with a real-life cooking feature, I was overjoyed.

How often we find rest in the place for longing, fame in the space of hiding, the truth in the face of the neonates.

A boy watching this scene might one day have much better things to write in his diary: smooth roads stretching through beautiful towns and countryside, bushes, hills, and everything else along the way; people who are happy and well cared for; police, if there are any to be seen, who neither scowl nor brandish their firearms, nor beg as if for alms.

There was no place like home, one’s home, one’s ancestral home, especially when one’s first name was Echezona: “Do not forget.”