People! Is a project that
would have me interview my friends on social media. I may not edit the
interviews. And I won’t promise that it would be awesome but it will definitely
be humane. Enjoy!
My first guest is NKIRU NJOKU, writer, actress and
mother. She is a beautiful woman with stories. Pay attention to what she
offers.
Bura-Bari Nwilo: So
what do you consider greatest?
Nk'iru. Njoku: In terms of??
Bura-Bari Nwilo: Life in general
Very difficult question
Love is good
Health is important
Money is important
It's not easy to have a
'greatest' thing
Very hard question
Hard
Bura-Bari Nwilo: Okay. So let's say you
are to change the world, what work tool would you prefer and why?
Nk'iru. Njoku: Ego is
easily the biggest problem of the world. I would balance out everyone's ego.
People need to take offense a lot less about EVERYTHING - religion, sexuality,
etc and this is a very simplistic list. What work took would I use? Magic, my
dear. That's the only way this can happen. And we all know this is impossible
so there goes my fantasy...
Bura-Bari Nwilo: hahaha. nice. I need your
magic too.
Okay. Your most recent
sensation is your daughter. From your updates, she has been a redefinition of
motherhood. Why did you pick particular interest in documenting the time you
two spend together?
Nk'iru. Njoku: Because of
our pretty backward mentality in Nigeria (I am sorry to say this though), kids
with reduced abilities or outright disabilities are not considered 'proper'
human beings. I thought it was time to shift our thinking so I decided to
document my journey with her. If more mothers with special-needs babies made a
lot of noise then perhaps policies will be put in place to acknowledge the
humanity of people with special needs and underline their importance to
society. In my daughter's case, blindness is simply an inconvenience - her
humanity is intact, her individuality is obvious. And she's a few days short of
a year old. This is because of how we view her and treat her. I wanted to stir
the still waters of our mentality and I dare say some people are taking notice.
Bura-Bari Nwilo:
Oh. Wow. That's so great and I
commend your effort.
If you were to close your
eyes, who is that trusted person that you would allow to ferry you across
turbulence?
Nk'iru. Njoku:
My partner. He's like the
older, smarter, more experienced male version of me. My trust in him is 'a
hundred and more' percent.
Bura-Bari Nwilo
That's sweet.
If you died and returned to
earth, where would you prefer as birth place?
Hahahahahahaha
Vincent biko stop tempting me
to deny my country
Bura-Bari
Nwilo
hahaha. Am I?
Nk'iru.
Njoku: Birth place isn't a determining factor of anything. Where you
live, what passport you have (which isn't always due to being born in said
place) is what counts, isn't it? I would still not mind being born in Nigeria
to be honest, based on my analysis.
Plus some people are born in
the 'best' countries in the world, they grew up in those countries, live there,
work there and are still 'suffering'. Birth place is no issue jare.
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