ChiemezieMadu
Personal views on society, culture, politics, policy, church, religion and people
Afrobeats: the backstory. A movie review.
I recently stumbled onto the documentary/docu-series, Afrobeats: the backstory, on a lazy evening when I was rummaging through Netflix for anything interesting to watch. The title caught my attention and I decided to give it a try. The first kudos to the movie...
Community is everything: lessons from the Harvard Study of Adult Development
I listened to a TEDX talk by Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of Psychiatry at Harvard medical school, where he discussed the findings of what is now known as the world's longest study on happiness - the Harvard Study...
On Peter Obi, Kwankwaso and the proposed LP-NNPP merger
After listening to key stakeholders in both the Labor Party (LP) and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) speak on the proposed merger between both political parties, I can only conclude that the merger will not come to fruition. Particularly, after listening to the...
Sentiments aside, Peter Obi and the Labor party need to get serious
Peter Obi currently enjoys the momentum in the upcoming presidential election and public opinion highly favors him. You can hardly scroll through social media feeds without a mention of Peter Obi popping up. He is that popular. However momentum is one thing,...
M. A. D.: Medically Assisted Dying
A few months ago, I attended a seminar titled medically assisted dying (MAD), a relatively recent but controversial concept in medicine. Simply put, MAD is when a doctor, on a patient's request, actively ends the patient's life, usually by administering a lethal dose...
2023: How things are shaping up so far
Roughly 10 months to the Nigerian presidential elections, things have begun to take shape although a lot remains shrouded in secrecy. The major contestants are now known but their main financiers and backers remain hidden from the public. The month of May promises to...
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