Nigeria, May 7 -- My mind wandered for clarity as I wobbled across the University of Ilorin's (UNILORIN) Mass Communication Departmental corridor that hot afternoon. Ambition collided with confusion, and fantasy gave way to epiphany. I had always wanted to practice journalism and had imagined that I knew what I wanted-until that moment.

"You must define what you want to do and be sure it isn't 'Churnalism'," Professor Lambe Kayode Mustapha said, head bent skywards. I was in his office and our conversations shifted in the direction of my post-varsity plan--how I could harness the fire of journalism that burnt within me for societal good. After-school challenges loomed, and uncertainties clouded my mind. Before then, I had studied journali...