Phosphenes: Seeing Light Without Light
You know that moment when the lights suddenly go out and you're trying to find your way back to your room? For some reason, keeping your eyes open doesn't seem to help much. But the moment you close t…
Nkantions Emediong Augustine
My words don’t just inform,they create scenes. I describe ideas the way a camera captures moments.
12 essays published
Published Essays
THE CHURCH SYNDROME How Nigerian Youth Are Losing Their Best Years to the Altar
"I used to think God was counting every hour I spent in that church. I was twenty-four, then twenty-seven, then thirty. I had no savings, no career, no skill set. I had attendance records and a choir robe."
The Person You Haven't Met
Take ownership of your identity instead of outsourcing it to external voices.
The Age of Entitlement: How a Culture of Expectation is Unraveling Society
We are all guests, at different moments, in spaces that do not entirely belong to us. Do we have the grace to know when we have taken enough , to leave room for the others?.
Illusion of Choice: the Limits of Free Will
When people repeatedly experience that their choices don't change their outcomes, they eventually stop believing choice matters at all.
Circumstantial Christianity in Nigeria: Faith Under Pressure
In Nigeria, Christianity is everywhere.Is Christianity a response to hardship, or a way of life? Faith that only survives under pressure was never fully rooted to begin with.
We Are Losing Ourselves to the Screen
It’s like we are afraid of being alone with our own thoughts—no breathing space left for the mind.
A State With Power, yet in Darkness: a Critical Analysis of Electricity Supply in Akwa Ibom State
A major challenge within the electricity distribution system is the alleged non-payment of electricity bills by individuals in positions of authority, a practice that undermines revenue collection and shifts the burden onto ordinary citizens.”
Submission? What if My Skin is Made of Rebellion?”
The essay explores the concept of submission and its role in society, particularly how it affects women. While submission can encourage order, respect, and harmony in institutions and relationships, it often places unequal expectations on women, limiting their freedom and ability to defend themselves. A personal experience at the University of Uyo illustrates this imbalance: a female student stood her ground against a man occupying her reserved seat, only to be criticized for refusing to submit. The essay questions whether society’s demand for submission truly promotes harmony or simply enforces inequality, concluding that dignity and fairness must take precedence over blind obedience.
intentional Subjugation and demoralization.
On the morning of International Women's Day, hundreds of women were directed to fill the stands of the Uyo International Stadium. They were not there for a concert, a sporting event, or a civic gathering they had chosen to attend. They were there because the President's wife was visiting and someone, somewhere in the ward structure of the ruling party, had put out the call.