Today is Ash Wednesday! For Nigerian Christians, it is a beginning of a bitter Lenten Season.  The ashes are black! We have known so much pain these days. So, it is a black Ash Wednesday! If the ash is to remind us of our mortality, and so, of the call to repentance, conversion and transformation, we now live in a state where we need not be reminded of our mortality. Death surrounds us! It stares us coldly right into the eyes! It dares us everyday! The blood that flows in our homes, cities, streets, communities and even forests has hardened … Continue reading Black Ash!