the ArmChair Thoughts

Racism and Classism. No matter how much we talk about it, I doubt it will go away [soon]. I’m resolving to quit the rant on how badly blacks have had it — scratch that; being specific — how badly Africans have had it. Yesterday I was in discussion with some fellow Africans discussing the cause [...]

I once thought of wearing a sign around my neck that says, “I’m Nigerian”. Before you think  I would do that because of arrogance, no, I’ve just being asked too many times: “Where are you from?” Luckily, many know where Nigeria is (and if you don’t, read it up here) and the almost natural question [...]

Inspired by the work of Beautiful Nubia, I’ve set to put to write a reminisce of me, a young African growing up in motherland. Oh, is my dear Africa so misunderstood: In my journey through the world Over Land and Over Sea I see different cultures and different people’s ways I was born where the sun [...]

I was split between a ponder on relationships and an equally bothering brain-drain; the African brain drain. When I thought of brain drain, my mind went, first to the poem I always want to write about it but haven’t gotten around completing it yet and, a talk by Philip Emeagwali, a Nigerian-American. You can read [...]

I spent a good deal of today talking to my colleague about the continent Africa. She started by wondering why anytime she sees Africa portrayed on TV, she said, it’s only desert, wild animals and starving children that’s shown — before you start judging the media she’s exposed to, remember, this is America and if [...]

Read here is the justification I gave crime (scammers); I refuse to shift the blame to those doing this crime (considering other factors) like the Nigerian government have decide to do (which I assume by they setting-up the Economic Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC]) As an economist would think, there is a solution to every problem as [...]

Here’s a write up I did originally April 2008, publishing it now . To start  with, stop by www.scamorama.com. Hopefully, at this point, you have an idea of what will be discussed here. Actually, you don’t I’m going to be economically defending this cause of crime (and mock you for being greedy if you’ve ever being [...]

The question I get almost all the time is, “what’s your nationality?” Many have noted  that my name sounds Japanese and I look Haitian and seem to have a French accent. Which ever way, there’s only one way to settle the confuion — prove how Nigerian I am. Inspired by the trending on twitter of [...]

Africans have a problem and that problem is Africa. Africa has a problem too, and that that problem is Africa. As an African, I and many Africans find it easier to blame the West (yes, they do play a part), or to blame the continent’s topography or more often, we can blame voodoo. Whichever we [...]

One is as likely to eat a Big Mac in Tokyo as one is to eat sushi in New York. More likely is it that one can be dancing to reggae in Fiji or African dances in Boston. And the point is, we live in a global world – here is the case of the later, sharing [...]