Writing
Notes & essays
Mostly health systems, building, and the occasional personal note. Pulled from my Medium.
- 6 October 2026·2 min read Are you Afraid? “Faith without works is dead”, so the bible very vividly proclaims. For many of us, the reverse is the case. I keep working, and I think I have no faith. But that is such a lie, because if I did not have a mustard seed…
- 28 September 2026·4 min read A Home I can call my Own A friend of mine wrote something beautiful recently, an article moving through the places she’s lived and the memories tied to each one. She’s in the UK now, and she menioned how homesick she intermittenly is. This, in…
- 22 March 2026·4 min read “Smiles. Just Believe”: An Argument for Hope You know where this is from. If you don’t, please go and watch it. Iwaju o se lo, eyin o se pada si. You cannot go forward, you cannot go back. That is the precise condition of the young Nigerian healthcare professional…
- 31 December 2025·11 min read Notes from ’25: The God of the Small Things Loss We tend to think of loss in a mostly linear form-death, the end of a relationship, a fight and breakup. This year, it has come in more subtle but equally jarring forms. It is one thing to think of the adage that…
- 29 December 2025·5 min read What I worked on in 2025 1: PureLife Health The vast majority of Nigerians access healthcare through non-hospital sources — word-of-mouth recommendations, standalone pharmacies, informal providers. Pharm. Mobolaji saw an opportunity to bridge this gap by…
- 21 October 2025·6 min read The Anatomy of an Outrage Generated by Google Gemini and inspired by James Gunn’s Superman Social media, as we know it, has probably changed forever. A lot of posts, especially on text-based platforms like Twitter (sorry, I don’t call it X) have…
- 7 March 2025·8 min read A Man and his Chi I must confess I dislike writing. My pen shears off a bit of my soul, distilling it into ink and trapping it into paper. But I must write because sometimes, my head is filled to overflowing and I must create space for…
- 31 December 2024·5 min read Kun Faya Kun It’s 5:52 PM on the 31st of December, 2024. Over the last month, I have tried and failed multiple times to write a review of my year and plan towards next year. But in between a lot of oblee!, traveling, and a general…
- 6 July 2024·5 min read To All the Songs I Have Ever Loved 2002/2003 — Baba Ara’s Master Key It is prize-giving day in Primary 2 or 3, and I am dressed in the sky blue-and-patterned uniform of Premiere Academy, Abuja. I have picked up most of the prizes for first place, and my…
- 2 November 2023·4 min read Inflating Costs, Deflating Health: Nigeria’s new Healthcare Challenge I The first of two articles, this piece seeks to analyse the impact of recent economic developments on patient’s health before proferring solutions in the second part. As a practicing physician in suburban Nigeria, daily…