Child upbringing needs to be done with positive expectations. Children performing poorly, or reasoning, acting, or behaving badly should be taken as a human situation and addressed appropriately.

It is common in many societies to find parents and guardians addressing their children with tags, names and metaphors that suggest depravity, incapability, deficiency and diminution. In this article, we examine the effects of these negative attributions, especially about animal characters.

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper on 12th October, 2021. As the world markets ‘solutions to…

A poem about poetry… a lot of wit and beauty in poetry dies undiscovered, unread.

Do feet take heads
Where they won’t dare go?
And show them straight paths
While round routes they know?

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This poem by Shimbo Pastory depicts the hope that a new day brings despite the many difficulties one faces in life.

A poem painting different faces of human purposeful struggles.

The first question we need to delve into is the nature of the problematic situation. Why do we use arms to resolve conflicts? Can we realistically end wars and silence the guns by 2020 as the AU’s Agenda 2063 looks forward to? Objectively, the reality of peace in the world today, which is indeed commonplace in literature, is still far from completion to a considerably great extent.

Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in March 2019. Crowned their…