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Two Years Without Tobore Omuta

By Kheme | February 19, 2023 by Kheme

Two years without Tobore Omuta, and it still feels surreal and my body and mind are still recovering.

Am I in a Mind or Computer Simulation?

By Kheme | March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 by Kheme

Have you seen the movie Source Code? It was about a man who survived a train explosion. They kept his mind alive in a kind of computer simulation in an attempt to find out who caused the explosion. The man had no idea he was now in a simulation, until towards the end of the movie. A similar thing happened at the end of the movie Upgrade. when an AI locked a man within a…

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Tobore Omuta: One Month Without My Childhood Hero

By Kheme | March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 by Kheme

It was only after his passing that I realized what an amazing guy Tobore Omuta was. And he was my childhood hero, today makes it one month since his passing. On this day in February, I was crying my eyes out in shock, anger, rage, pain, resentment, and disbelief! “God, why?!” And He said nothing! But God remains God, you know 😏 So many questions, so many answers that will not come now, or even…

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Remarkable Coincidence, or Mind Reader?

By Kheme | March 14, 2021March 21, 2021 by Kheme

When a remarkable coincidence happens, some tend to believe that a higher power must be responsible. But if such occurrences never happen again, then they must be remarkable coincidences. Right? I did my secondary school at the Federal Government College in Warri. During mid-term breaks, I would return home to my family in Benin. From time to time, my father would have one of his drivers come to Warri and drive me down to Benin.…

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Descending Walls

By Kheme | December 9, 2019December 12, 2019 by Kheme

It was my first time in Southern Cyprus. This was before the island was split with these mechanized walls. Before now, there were no walled borders between North and South. There was also a buffer zone, a neutral ground between the North and the South, stretching about a thousand meters. There shops and cafes in the buffer zone, and life there was serene. But a new law on the island allowed us to cross over…

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The Day I Met With John Obidi

By Kheme | March 5, 2018January 28, 2019 by Kheme

I had to be somewhere for something, but I do not recall what. Nevertheless, I had an appointment at an office. While wait for my appointment at the reception, I overheard someone say “John would be coming to today”. Serendipity!… I exclaimed to myself! I came for one thing, and got a meeting with John Obidi, I continued, thinking to myself. Then he walked in! I did not realize that he was there to meet…

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The Danger of a One-sided Reality

By Kheme | January 22, 2018May 10, 2018 by Kheme

There is a Ted talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with a similar title. Buy my story is about something different. Yes, this is about one-sided stories too. But I am talking about the one-sided realities we experience. When we tell ourselves one side of the story, we find ourselves living in a one-sided reality. Over a decade ago, my mother invited a friend of mine to give a talk at an adult camp. For…