Home Is Where the Name Still Knows You

My roots are in Ondo. Before any title, before public office and before the larger rooms people later invited me into, I came from here.

Home is not only where you were born. Home is the place where people know the name before they know the explanation. It is the place that can correct you because it remembers you.

That kind of memory is a responsibility. When you build at home, you are not building for strangers alone. You are building in front of people who know whether your words and your work agree.

Some places know your history before you explain yourself.