Diary of a Silly Economist #1

By Bezalel Madaki

Bezalel Madaki is a Nigerian taking his PhD in economics at Sweden. He's a single dad to the most adorable daughter. Yet he has an overactive mind and tends to exaggerate little things in funny ways. His mix of a Westernized lifestyle, African proclivities, and economic mentality, filtered through a dark sense of humour produces a unique character. This is the first of a series of his personal journal entries.

This is the beginning of a series. Madaki is one of the first characters being developed within a broader universe who will eventually be combined in a single epic supernatural-themed book. The second is Nazbanar Iyaga, a supernatural researcher who has published a methodological framework for estimating comparative incidence of demonic inhabitance across populations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bezalel Madaki
• Release date: Jun 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463833766

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Diary of a Silly Economist #1

By Bezalel Madaki

Copyright 2018 Abel B.S. Gaiya

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18th April – entry #108

The alarm goes off on my phone, but I push the snooze button. Again it goes off, and again I snooze. The struggle recurs three more times, and I finally awake, the conquered.

Laying upon my back, staring at the ceiling, I ponder over my situation. I momentarily get philosophical. Hundreds of million of people all over the world have this same feeling right now. Does it ever go away? Is it to be blamed on capitalism and its demands on labour, or just on the human condition on this earth? It’s funny how we take sleep to be the sweetest thing on earth very early in the morning, and then the sentiment fades away after we take a shower. Sleep must feel awfully dirty for being used and dumped by billions of people.

I end the cogitations and revert to the immediate dilemma. Do I return to sleep and later call my supervisor to give some plausible excuse for my absence? What