the ArmChair Thoughts

When I was growing up in Lagos Nigeria, the concept of ‘being black’ was absolutely non-existent, some might agree that we where all black after all so why think as such. Upon moving to the United States, I had to learn a new identity–being black. What exactly is being black? Yesterday I discussed the shaping [...]

I’ve recently being thinking about ‘identity’; what makes me think I’m me and what make me have the perception of things as I do. Not in the extreme philosophical thinking of Descartes or Socrates, I’m thinking of things like, has being black (skinned) affected my view on life (especially living in America), have my parents [...]

After yesterday’s post about the iPad, a reality dawned on me; the human race is sold out. I wonder how much we have forgotten that in the recent million years, all we strive for was: food, water and clothing; everything else was detrimental to our survival–forget those we are advanced now, we are grown, we [...]