November 2011
1 post
How Do I survive: Comedy of Errors
Kai! So many things to write about;None written yet! From the issues charging up the Nigerian polity;namely-fuel subsidy&the National Honours/Merit awards, to things happening in the world polity- now that’s a bummer! Where do I start?
As I write its past midnight in Naija,and of course most will wake up to the news of Demi&Ashton(I was sooo rooting for them! :’(). But really...
October 2011
1 post
I can't believe it!
Its been almost 9months I posted on here! So many things have happened in my life and obviously in the happenings of my country. These are not excuses, and I sincerely apologise for the draught!
Truth is sometimes I have so many things to write or comment on,and the share thought of them overwhelm me! Some are very current issues and others are stale or almost stale and I just decide not to...
August 2011
1 post
Hmmmm
In the last four months many a things have happened in my life and in my country’s existence. Focussing on Nigeria, a lot of arguments have erupted: should the country split? Should the country get back to true federalism via government of region? Terrorism? Slow response from government, should the present leader have been elected, PDP,AC… Was the election truly free and fair? Flash...
March 2011
4 posts
Nigerians are corrupt;the system is corrupt!
At least that was the submission of two presidential candidates. One said the people are corrupt, the other the system. I’ve searched my heard looking for how to justify both candidates’ paradigm but I have not been able to
However, the events of the last two days in my life makes me ask this question;”if the system is corrupt,is it not a human system?” Or how can a system...
January 2011
1 post
SIJI
In september of 2005, the media office I worked for decided to go 100% indigenous for their music content. It was a big challenge because at the time contemporary Nigerian artistes were scarce! So I resorted to my father’s library&my station’s library. My initial inventory of dad’s library provided me with dizzy k falola, Tunji Oyelana &the benders, Sunny...
December 2010
1 post
Do we really want change?
Whether this question is rhetorical or just plain insane is yet to be seen. However this afternoons events made me wonder if Nigerians are really ready for the change the seriously crave. My fear is based on how comfortable we have become with the abnormal. Just yesterday a friend suggested on her fb account that the FRSC(federal road safety corps) of Nigeria should develop another safety manual...
October 2010
3 posts
The Woman?
Today I take a trip through the minds of various women I have known. Who have given everything to have a home or children. Women,who have suffered through cruelty of a parochial society. I’m also dedicating this to some men who hace helped shaped my view of the feminine gender and have lived through the cause.
This is not a female liberation campaign. Its just a note to say thank you to...
It's personal!
Ok now I’m damn mad! Yes mad! At the “cafe” again this morning to have my breakfast. No news. What gets my miffed this morning is the fact that I have been paying 250 naira more than I should pay for my breakfast! Hummph!!! I went in asked for my breakfast and because the manager was there I was told 700 naira! Ok I should have caused a scene but it just got me thinking has...
Is it real?
Sitting at a cafe-yes cafe- this morning trying all I can to enjoy breakfast, but I can’t cause I fear an explosive could detonate soon. I fear another operation “wet e” all in the name of politics. Four years ago this was how the polity heated up but the magnitude was child’s play compared to what we are having now. I didn’t experience operation “wet e”,...
September 2010
1 post
courtesy or integrity?
I just want to sleep!!!!
Last week, i couldn’t summon the courage to write anything, i just wanted to sleep. With the hope that if i slept, I’d wake up to a better country and ultimately a better world/universe.
However, that was not to be. i could go on and on about the things happening in our polity. I also empathize with the notion that the country is the way it is because it flows from the...
August 2010
7 posts
Another view
“A o ni r’bi nile yii, o d’okere” this Yoruba saying should be our mantra as Nigerians because I can’t imagine the fate of Nigerians should disaster strike. The case of Pakistan is just like other emerging countries, Nigeria inclusive. How could one explain the globetrotting of the Pakistan president at such time when his people needed him most all in the name of looking for money. Which money?...
Global Village palaver
Hi Tunmise, the space for answers on the article wasn’t adequate to post all my thoughts so I have tried to post them this way. As a try to write now, i am befuddled by the quagmire that my mind presents me on this issue. First, Nigeria pledges a paltry $1m to Haiti and refused to honour the same just because Yar’adua is dead! It’s just insane! Has there been any strategic...
A Global Village?
So maybe the world is not so much of a global village after all, since the prejudices and all still exists?
Anyways was watching the news today and there were four reasons why aid was not pouring to Pakistan as it did other countries visited by Mother Nature. It ranged from donor apathy to Pakistan, to corrupt leaders, to death toll not high enough, to the fear of extremists.
I have my own...
Who has the blame???
Ok. In its entirety, the leaders bare the largest share of the blame of a failing nation i however insist the people also have a tiger’s share. Tell me, as a parent if you have tried to teach your children to work as a team and de-emphasize sibling rivalry, but they refuse, and continue to bicker and seek each Other’s Hercules heel, would you respect them or treat them as they act?
I have heard of...
Where are the prophets?
Television has never been my thing. Radio i didn’t have a choice but love, because i had a father who had and still has at least four sets at any given point in his life. So before the advent of newspaper headlines pervading the airwaves and breakfast shows fighting for attention, i woke up every Saturday morning with “funwonton ti de o; e da kun e dide” blasting through the radio on Radio...
Where are the prophets?
Television has never been my thing. Radio i didn’t have a choice but love, because i had a father who had and still has at least four sets at any given point in his life. So before the advent of newspaper headlines pervading the airwaves and breakfast shows fighting for attention, i woke up every Saturday morning with “funwonton ti de o; e da kun e dide” blasting through the radio on Radio...
To Odewale With Love
“The gods are not to blame, but did they orchestrate the happenings…”
I have always been a slow starter, and it takes me years to get the true gist of any matter, because i have to think and think. On the one hand, that is good on the other; i am just behind in many matters.
So here, i am twelve years after i read “the gods are not to blame” and 6 years after i saw it on stage-“pit theatre...
July 2010
13 posts
My comments
T-she, just gone through your blog and its loaded. I will be back when I am less busy and go through the othe articles, however some of the posts I have just read hit a vein. I am truely green blooded by the way and issues concerning niaja(abandon me Abati but na so e be) are dear to my heart. I will just comment of two issues.
Firstly, I read the article credited to Mr. Abati a few months back I...
Greenblood
Being a person of colour is a challenge enough in the world; add to it the challenge of being a Nigerian, who must first struggle to identify himself/herself as an individual, all at the same time making sure he/she is relevant in the world of today.
The Nigerian identity has been so bruised that it takes the grace of God, and I mean that, the grace of God to pull through any situation around the...
Authors that taught me
thanks ‘tunde for that expose. i guess the onus now lies on us to make sure the generation that has been entrusted to us to model for enjoy the same privileges we enjoyed. i am re reading “sweet revenge” which happen to be the first pacesetter i ever read and i believe i am seeing it with new eyes 20 years after.
The Authors that taught me...
submitted by babatunde omogbai I grew up with parents that had personal libraries, in a middle class family in the western part of Nigeria. Reading at an early age was a criteria to getting gifts and presents but the presents were simply more books. We read ( my sisters & I) until we started rushing out in the mornings to go get the morning papers for our dad, all because we wanted to read the...
another balance...
Well, I read Abati’s article on the instance of my friend. I found his intention noble but his expression of it rather despairing. While (in my opinion) the crux of Abati’s article is the quality of the lyrics of today’s artistes, his choice of approach to (national identity) is inapt. Nigeria is not suffering from identity crisis (we know who we are, even if we have been haphazardly juxtaposed by...
Alawiye.....
Africans love to talk. I have heard this sentence half of my educated lifetime. The second is like unto it: you want to hide anything from a black man; put it in a book. Initially these statements enraged me to the point of holy righteousness and i just want to have the head of anyone who said it near me. You know why? I loved to talk. Talking is a business i can do for two lifetimes. However,...
A balance?
We need to understand that trading blames is not the solution to the problems in Nigeria. Though we (older & younger generations) have different views about who did, what wrong and when .The fact is a lot of things are wrong with our country and we can either fix it or trade blames. The truth is with all due respect we (the younger generation) are products of a broken system. A system which we...
this was submitted by korede
just read Abati’s article now….all i could make out is resentment and fear of being irrelevant! As a schooled musician nd concert pianist of wetsern classical music the trend in our own music world is creating nigerian art music that wud stand the the mozarts and beethoveen anytime and anywhere…..wont say alot here cos im totally taken aback by Abati’s perfidious hubristic...
Good one on the Reuben Abati Article! I was suprised and annoyed when I read it especially as regards the Rooftop MCs song! I loved Banky W’s response to that article. I’m with you all the way gal! written by bambo adeife
When a nation listens to you, then it behoves on you to be very careful about the things you say or publish. The older generation used to hold dear that sense of responsibility.
What Sir Abati termed “A nation’s identity crisis” ought to have gone deeper than just a cursory examination of our pop music industry. It ought to (in my own mind)have x-rayed the parts of our culture...
The identity crisis
One of the mos controversial articles written about a generation of Nigerians who fortunately i am part of; was written by an extremely “respected” journalist of all times; Mr Reuben Abati. you can just google the article “a nation’s identity crisis” and you will get the background of what you are about to read. As i said in my opening note, i will be posting a reply...
Let the "revolution" begin
Borrowing from rooftop mc’s, there’s an advantage to sitting on a rooftop. Invariably, there’s also a disadvantage. The advantage lies in the “position” one finds themselves. The disadvantages-which could be opportunities-abound in the things the “position” leads you to see.
There is a silent revolution going on in the world and the cultures that inform its existence, that if we are not careful,...
