Some news hits you and leaves you numb, not because it is shocking, but because it is one too many. The screaming headlines, the prayers that follow, and the silence in between, when it feels like nothing is changing. The Oyo school abduction—one too many, yet still impossible to ignore.
There’s a Yoruba proverb I grew up hearing that has quietly shaped my thinking for years: “When two brothers enter a room to have a conversation and exit smiling, they have just lied to each other. But if they come out with straight, long faces – then they have told each other the truth.” The …
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