Igoni Barrett's greatest asset is his ability to satirise the ridiculous extents people, especially Lagosians, go to in order to appear important.
"I was 24, and whatever they did to make women appear important, desirable, and worthy of praise was what I wanted".
For all I knew, it was a technique he had learned so as to appear important, more or less like the tricks the average writer resorts to when trying to lend his stories the semblance of immense profundity.
A HUNDRED years from now, looking back, the only question that will appear important about the historical moment in which we now live is the question of whether or not we did anything to arrest climate change.
"The goal here is to appear important, not incompetent".
These aspects appear important also to understand the category of urban informality.
It may also appear important to demonstrate distance to other ethnicity.
These interactions appear important in stabilizing the inactive quaternary T state of the enzyme.
As different input signals are used in the proposed scheme, the accuracy of measuring systems and CT saturation appear important.
These factors appear important to adopt and to sustain a strategy of labor hoarding during the Great Recession.
There's a temptation to embellish it with fancy words such as "utilise" or "democratise" to make us appear important.
