Essays, Reflections and the Occasional Provocation
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I write because there is always something worth saying.
About the things we accept without question. The things we remember differently. The things everyone is thinking but do not say aloud.
Some become personal essays. Others become stories.
Occasionally, I look back at a time before everything became public and online .
I write what I see, what I remember and what I think.
No particular order. No particular rules.
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- CHINWE ORANYE
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A week later, I went to the post office to check our mailbox and, amongst the letters, was one addressed to me.
It was strange because I wasn’t expecting one, except maybe finally a reply from the countless letters we wrote to our uncles and aunts abroad, but we all knew better - they never responded.
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Because customers learn very quickly what a business will tolerate.
If I can insult your employee and your first response is to apologize to me or I make an accusation and you immediately summon your employee to explain themselves in front of me, I have learnt something.
