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Tech for Humans I have noticed recently that there is something about the tools we use. They become faster, smarter, and more efficient. And still, most of us do not feel faster, or smarter, or more at ease. Quite on the contrary, we are sometimes moved the other way. It feels like we are silently competing with systems that were not designed to operate like we do, with feelings, hesitations, rhythms, and sensitivity. Technology has never been anything but expansion. Extend

The Yorùbá say, “Òwe lẹ́ṣin ọ̀rọ̀; bí ọ̀rọ̀ bá sọnù, òwe la fi ń wá a” — a proverb is the horse of thought; when thought is lost, we use a proverb to find it. Perhaps this is what frameworks should do for us: not tell us what to think, but help us find our way through thought. Questioning What We Inherit We live in a generation where we are constantly being told what must change, what side to take, and what the correct opinion should be. But even the fight for change requires

What if the most important question about AI is not what it can do, but what it might slowly teach us not to do? Every time a new technology emerges, we seem to repeat the same pattern. We either fear it so deeply that we begin to demonise it, or we become so fascinated by what it can do that we forget to question it. In both cases, technology becomes the centre of the conversation, and somehow, the human being becomes an afterthought. Take AI. We spend so much time asking: H

There is an illusion I keep coming back to. The illusion that we know. Not just that we know facts, but that we understand people. We convince ourselves that because we have the data, the demographics, the interviews, or the stories, we somehow understand another person’s feelings, experiences, and pain. But knowing about someone is not the same as understanding them. And perhaps that’s where many of our solutions begin to fail. When we believe we already know, we stop lookin

I’ve been wondering whether we’ve misunderstood beauty. We often speak about it as though it were something to achieve. Something polished. Symmetrical. Perfect. Something that exists when every flaw has been removed. But that doesn’t explain the world I experience. A forest is beautiful precisely because it isn’t perfectly arranged. Old buildings carry a kind of beauty that new ones cannot imitate. The people we love are rarely perfect, yet we still call them beautiful. Perh

When conversations about Africa begin, they often begin with failure. Weak institutions. Poor governance. Corruption. Slow development. And the proposed solutions usually sound familiar: better leaders, better policies, stronger institutions. These things matter. But I wonder if we often begin too late in the story. Before asking why our institutions struggle, perhaps we should ask a more fundamental question: Who designed them, and what problems were they originally designed

Between the 11th and 13th centuries, universities developed something extremely important: disputation. A question would be proposed. Arguments would be presented. Counterarguments would be considered. A scholar would have to defend a conclusion publicly. Knowledge was not simply something to be received. Intellectual claims were expected to survive criticism, argument, and scrutiny. There is something fascinating about this idea. The university was not merely a place where p

I have worked in a very toxic environment. And I have also worked in an environment where my ideas were championed and genuinely welcomed. I’ve been in places where you second-guess yourself before speaking, where you calculate whether to say what you really think or say what sounds politically “safe”, just so you do not get penalized. And I can tell you… that thing is a drag. It drains your mind. It drains your confidence. It drains the life out of an organization that cl

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been drawn to solving problems, not just finding answers, but understanding the why behind...