Tina Abena Oforiwa

I mourn all the things we lost in the fire. So much that that can never be recovered. And centuries later, it feels like a generation is still trying to pick up some of those pieces, standing on the shoulders of giants, trying to reclaim what once seemed irretrievably lost.

What happens to a people when their gods are cast as devils? When their ways are labelled wicked, and their stories erased? This piece is a reflection on the spiritual consequences of colonisation—and a call to remember the sacred paths we once walked.

Kemi Badenoch’s rise challenges our assumptions about power and identity. Does her prominence signal real change?