Of madmen and religious specialists

Death is a sad event. That is why we have to make sure that intolerance in all it's forms does not triumph at home and Abroad. The clashes between Nigerian security forces and members of Boko Haram across Northern Nigeria is regretable. A lot of people have lost their lives and property. I hope we learn from the official inquiry to be conducted by the government. Education, Jobs and improved living and social conditions will help in calming down the situation. But again this is what we need across the country.Hello Abuja.....

Why do you like what you like?

Can you sincerely say you know why you like what you like.Regardless of promptings by others or those who claim to know better . Take music i like Jazz. Instrumental music without words i find soulful. Apart from a few Fela Kuti songs and some by Dennis Brown i listen to the instrumentation in music. Even Rock has to have a prog element to keep me.
I listen to the rhythm of life when i work or am at rest.

To buy records many times i slide and try to depend on reviews or advertising. That dosen't work either because many a time i go to the second hand music shop at notting Hill gate to dispose of stuff I bought on an expert reviewers say so ( sorry Time Out, Rolling Stone,Mojo). The best music for me is that which i discover online or have had passed on to me by a friend or family. Sometimes you are lucky to catch a band like the Portico Quartet playing their first gig in London and you know the future is here. Other times it is hit or miss. But the choice is yours alone.

Books provide the same challenge. I like what i like. Most times that means going against conventional wisdom . I like reading Amado, Kapucinski, Achebe, Kouroumah, Mahfouz,Chatwin, Ekwensi, Pelecanos,Soyinka, Freud, Baldwin, Angelou, Plato and Ngugi Wa Thiongo.
Do you know why you like what you like?

Ofodunka

This is a blog i like. One i just discovered but which i have been waiting for. Interesting.

On the road again

The band at Dinner ..Nyoni's Kraal on Long Street Cape town.

Second picture is yours truly on Fender Rhodes Piano at the outdoor concert in Langa..

Langa is the place .....

Ayetoro was in Cape town to play at the Pan African space Station in Oct 2008. Dis festival was put together by the duo of Neo Muyanga and Ntone Edjabe. Beautiful people them . Here is the band at soundcheck in Langa. Langa na township for Souh Africa. The first township in fact where dem force people to go live while the government went about collecting most of the prime real estate. More on that later but enjoy more pictures and listen to langa a new tune as played by Ayetoro on www.myspace.com/ayetoro .

For Liepollo, Kyla Rose , Sanza , Nicole and Mbali . All special ...Much love.........

Big thief Small thief ....

Check this out...If you steal millions of Dollars from the tax payer or are arrested at an airport trying to export contraband out of Nigeria you get to pay a fine in lieu of jail. If however you are a misguided youth who steals a car battery the judge will send you to prison for 12 months to teach you a lesson.

Nigeria sucks .... Leaders steal plunder and kill and we still call them leaders.

In its present form the Nigerian state is unworkable and a vampire society which kills it's best , it's young and the innocent. It should be killed off and a new society or new societies and states built on similar cultural values and socio cultural economic ties should be allowed to evolve. If the international community and it's meddlesome agents , the former colonial power and also the UN do not try to help then the country is on the road to perdition.

No compromise on that.

Financial crimes....Ole ojukoroju!

http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=512:saharareporters-new-york&catid=76:hot-topic&Itemid=205

This story if true and others like it show the extent of the damage being done to Nigeria the federation nobody wants. Most Nigerians are helpless victims of the act of the whitehall mandarins. Our so called political leaders were and still are no better than their forebears the ignoble potentates who got rich off the slave trade selling people for cash. Any wonder why they lie and fight among themselves in our name..

Not in mine..
When you can please look for and read the kaiama declaration by the Ijaw youth. Until the Nigerian state can answer the questions which have brought about such documents there is no ideological basis for it to win the war of hearts and minds .

Open your minds ......

Alert!!! How safe is your food in Naija?

I was in lagos a week ago and noticed something shocking...The size of some of the foods for sale at the local Ipodo market in Ikeja was shocking? Yams wider than 16 inches and longer too. . Pineapples and Pawpaws as wide as a sumo wrestlers thighs!!!
I asked where the foods were from and all i got told was up country..Now in the same place were foods of normal size..so why the remarkable difference? I haven't seen food this big before...
Some research hours later and i find a former minister of technology admitting that in Bayelsa State there is a national body hich has ben gentically modifying food to achieve higher yields. And also that GM foods are the future. This coming from a country that has never devoted time and land to feeding itself. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807160500.html
With the jury still out on GM foods i wonder why with most of the developed world promoting organic farming as the healthy option our own minister is justifying GM production. Who will pay the cost if something goes horribly wrong? The world food crisis today is one of distribution and also of governmental incompetence. Check the facts..

We even have state governments importing Cows from South Africa without checking to see if they will adapt to our terrain..Most actually were imported in a pregnant state... What happens to the Fulani of west Africa who are a institution at Cattle rearing? This is a no brainer really..

Please be very concerned about the food you eat..


Why do the rich and royalty in almost all the developed world actively encourage their own to eat organic? While their governments ask us to accept GM food aid?

Fight corruption and incompetence everyday so Naija can survive..

How long? before we do what we have to do...

Forgive the cynicism.. but i dont understand the need for CCTV's in a place with inadequate power supply, a slow justice system and entrenched poverty. Why do our governments emphasise the supremacy of buildings and machines over people? How much will this action cost the state? Who will really benefit from this action? big business most likely...
Instead of really attempting to improve peoples lives in a serious holistic manner our governments keep throwing public money at projects which make their business allies rich..

We need change. People in Nigeria require social security..
Free education...Funded by the state
Jobs and good ones at that..
They require land for organic subsistence farming in the face of the threat of GM foods...
There can and must be free health care . If our governments do this they won't need to make some people rich by importing CCTV's from wherever...