Nigeria, July 7 -- This piece is inspired by Mr. Abiodun Musa Aibinu, responding to my article in The News Chronicles on Monday, 6th July, 2026 titled "Is it true that men don't really know colors." In that piece I admitted, with some embarrassment, that I had lived most of my life unaware that men are, on average, more prone to color vision deficiency. I only woke up to it after watching a media personality test a man on basic colors and he missed them, convincingly. That moment unsettled me because it suggested I had been wrong all along. What made it more fascinating was discovering that the science behind it is not new. Studies going back many decades had already documented it. It was not rumor or groupthink. It was data.

Mr. Aibinu...