Memoirs of Dada-Stephen

I remember an occurrence in 2015 when my friend Ifeanyi Chidi and I traveled to Zanzibar Island from DareSalaam. In the evening while Johnstone Matini from Kenya was catching up with his old friend and Winfred Okatch from Uganda and other friends were resting from the long day business chat that we had with the Zanzibar Island Chamber of Commerce Chairman ( a young man in his early 30s), we were invited to a club to see around by a friend. While I was bored in the club seeing white men and women jumping around like toads and drinking beer. Initially, it felt like the colonial eras for me because I saw they way they felt when we came in as the only blacks. I noticed the men telling their young ladies to stay away from us as we are dangerous. I was disgusted and expecting one of them to misbehave where I am and that club will shutdown that night 😡🤣. I was just wishing Ifeanyi will say it's time to return to the hotel. Alas, the D.J started playing Nigerian jamz 😯. Ofcourse you...

On the 2nd day of January 2018, precisely around 2:00am: I woke up scared like a baby locked in a very dark room all alone. I have had terrible nightmares that do not even move me a bit. I have had bad dreams that I even wake up sweating, I still don't get worried over them. This one really got me because until I woke up, it looked real that waking up was more like a way of escape that gives someone a sigh of relief. I dreamt that I was dead.... The dream didn't show how it happened, I only saw that I was doing everything normally but no one could see me, feel or touch me. In the dream I saw my wife and relatives and I felt bad for them. I saw that I was talking with my mother but she couldn't touch me and I was saying in my heart: "this woman doesn't know that I'm no more with her" In that dream, I was saying to myself; "God if I'm to return to life, I want to be very wealthy" (actually, that's the only part of the dream I liked.) I...

Hi, It's been a long while I did some writings, so I decided to return to my first love of writing for fun. This time, I will be doing lots of personal writings and my perception on general issues of life. This will be a great year for me and everyone who follows this blog. Thanks. Dst.