the ArmChair Thoughts

Shortly after I wrote “saying A Prayer”, my [virtual] friend Tunde Shaba wrote a piece about the plight of African nations (in this case nigeria) that I found brilliant. The poem used the George Orwell style of awakening (in Animal Farm) to point the corruption that the country’s leaders are wreaking to the nation. And, [...]

Musically, I’ve not got around sharing the joy of the African (Nigeria) tradition; you might want to call it ‘just’ music. In Nigeria, music is a culture and this is an attempt I made to re-create the culture in this African dance performance at my school, University of Massachusetts Boston in its annual African Night. [...]

I’m thinking of going back to the roots of my culture and following in the religion of my fathers. My fore-fathers where Africans, they didn’t care about who Jesus was, or who the Holy Spirit is, or some Western God. Somehow, I’m feeling that the West has sold us lies in effort to draw us [...]

After a long week of this blog being down, I learnt another reason why free isn’t always free, its only often better than nothing (I host on x10hosting.com) and I’m cheap. And over the week, I’ve been away from school (Spring Break) and interesting religious issues have been proping up here and there.Actually not here [...]

Language, n.: a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition. Apart from this definition, I think language as culture, an identity. And, it’s interesting how many are forgetting their culture (language) as [...]

Thinking about life many times is interesting, even more interesting going through those phases of ups and downs and that’s beside the point. Almost anyone I meet and tell them I’m Nigerian would stereotypically (most unconscious I would assume) know my  country for either it’s frauds (which I’ve jokingly defending here) or positively for its [...]

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 [...]

I have been thinking of writing a book for years now unfortunately, thinking about writing doesn’t get any book written (otherwise books will be getting published every minute) so, as an effort to not only think about it, I’m getting my hands and mind to it. Two days ago I started working on a storyform [...]