Life & Death,

We usually say, ‘you only live once (YOLO)’. Do we truly live once?

I don’t agree. We live twice and more. We live through our works. We live and relive.

And if you believe in life after death. Then that’s also another form of living.

Fela Kuti died yet he’s more alive than many here on earth and pluto. Same thing with Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley, Micheal Jackson and the likes.

They still live.

Congratulations Ruona…Sweet Sweet Codeine gets an EMMY nomination for News and Current Affairs.

Actually, that’s the first for the BBC World Service and Nigeria.

You are living the life. And your works won’t die. The sweetest part of the entire thing is your work gets recognition and also saves the lives of millions of Nigrian youths.

Your work is risky, but impact journalism is a beauty. Not many can go that route for obvious reasons.

Cheers to you, African woman.

And from one woman to another powerful woman — Toni Morrison.

She’s dead at 88.

But she does live. Her works won’t die.

Her work on African American experience in fiction for over five decades didn’t die at 88.

Her honours — including the Pulitzer prize, the Nobel prize, the Légion d’Honneur and a Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to her in 2012 by her friend Barack Obama, and other works that became part of the fabric of American life as it was woven into high school syllabuses across the country — won’t die.

Congratulations to her as well.

There are more strong and brilliant African women out there living and reliving the life of champs.

Your Good Works spotter,
Ediale
#ForTheCulture

PS: Have a sweet sweet celebration.