What would you do?City-High

My friend Juicegal responded to a post on a sugarbelly's blog about race! I am going to narrow it to Race and women!
The complaint is that Dare used an Indian girl in his video..I will be honest, my reaction was the same as sugarbelly's...Not because I am convinced that I am underpriviledged as a result of my skin colour...but because Dare made a comment a few years ago which really annoyed me. It was a performance in Lagos and he said 'this is my problem with nigeria, the sound check is always bad'.petty I know but he was saying that because he had just come back from that music show in SA...So after he said that, what was his contribution to making the sound check better...he was singing badly, he was huffing and puffing when he should have accepted that he was feeling abit nervous about performing!!!!! I feel that this is the same with the indian girl...so what there was no nigerian girl with the bod of that babe and they couldn't do indian virgin weave for her to make her hair look like that??Fair enough he is married to a nigerian girl but marriages are not always sufficient evidence to judge by(no offence meant) and so maybe sugarbelly is right to say that he is more at ease with other races or generally people that are not nigerian jare!!!

Second point, juicegal made about using black girls in american videos...I detest it to be honest...American rap, pop videos objectify women a little too much for my liking! If she is not half-naked, she is in compromising situations, like I really hate their portrayal of women, only useful as mothers or sex objects...it's disgusting. Having said that though, the women also play a huge part and so should take about 65-70% blame, because they consent to being seen in that light...Yes they have to feed etc but really, is that always the best option? It may suffice today but then when 7 years down the line you're ashamed of your boobies shown around and pressed by Snoop Dogg whose wife will probably never leave him and whose boobies you have not seen, you'll wonder why you really did it...

Having said this though, I agree with juicegal, let us move past race and do something positive!

Women of the world unite!(ok got a little carried away with Marx during exams so pardon a sister!)

The Role of Women in Society

I have been thinking about 'women' and how they shape our society. Everyday we hear about our world being 'a man's world' and women have no rights, no life, nothing, we are slaves to men in our societies...laws created are patriachal and so automatically exclude women from particiapting in society. I have come to the conclusion that this is an extreme view because I feel women are a much to blame as men are for the 'patriachal' society. Using the Nigerian society, I would like to make a few generalizations about the African society and the World in general.

1. Men are born by women!

Obviously!! It seems a norm that women have close bonds to their kids as they are born which means that a mother's love for her child is something that child will always respect. In this sense therefore, women have a hold over their children in a way no one else really does(except you're the devil in the devil's advocate. Essentially a woman wields power over her son and influences alot of decisions he makes...


2. Women do not use the power effectively!

So they have this influence, but rather than steer the child in the right directions, they manipulate and hate their daughters in- law!! A woman who has the 'ear' of her son can influence him so positively pro-women that should he be in a position of law-making, he would defend women. Mary had the ear of her son which is why he turned water to wine...women should emulate her in the way she dealt with her child whether or not he was the son of God...The bible may not tell us that Jesus got a spanking at 5 for peeing on the bed but I would like to assume that his mother would have done that to him. Evidently, the fact that he turned the water to wine, she had set down a few rules before about 'disobeying mummy'!

I have more to say but I have to go now because of thursday but come thursday 7pm(maybe not) I will add to this!

Life without weaves!

I had promised that there would be no blogging till thursday but na lie...
here are a few reasons why we should thank the almighty, technology, indian tradition and money for the creation of the new phenomenon...HUMAN HAIR...remy to be precise!

1. People with short hair can now have cause to glorify the almighty...Imagine if your hair lost the ability to grow because you went to school in Badore, Loyola, Louisville, Adesoye...sha you get all those schools where you had to have 'low cut'...

2. People with bad hair can cover it up...you know like the ones with 'chop chop' in front and at the back...kai we thank God...or the ones where the front is long and the back is non-existent...or thin,discoloured hair...wow!

3. People with long hair who do not have the liver to cut it can feel among with Ri-ri and Vicky. B! *guilty as charged*

4. *****The P and Swagger can be heavy on you...ok this sentence made no sense, I just wanted to say it...basically remy hair now separates your weave(technically) from Mercy's own because yours is 30,000 naira or £80 and hers was 12pounds...*personally, a weave is a weave to me, I always know!!!

So people, let us kneel down everyday and give glory to God for this creation...btw if anyone has seen 'DJM's' rant about weaves, I agree with him but that's blog for later...till then *peace*beating my chest*two fingers sideways*

Talent, Work...the New Nigerian

Just had my second exam and I must say people keep the prayers coming, I need them!!
Anyway so I just saw a video by some boys rapping about air and hair and music...hmm...kicks and starts or something...I am a big HATER of the talented rapper, designer, photographer, make-up artist...the artist in general...and I have never really known why...at first it was jealousy as I have no artistic talent, cannot sing, cannot rhyme, cannot draw a straight line, have no fashion sense...nana...in a way I am jealous as in I wish I had the ability to do some of these things...anywhichway I do have the ability to speak and write(ok somewhat!) so I should not over-hate!!
back to my point...I have realised that the dignity of education has diminished over the past 3-4 generations...
In the colonial era and the early post-colonial era, there was dignity in becoming a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, an accountant...generally to obtain either professional degrees or specialise in a subject and reach the highest point...Intellectualism was key...My great-grand parents and grand-parents belong to this era...As a result, our political, intellectual families were born...the lawyers, doctors etc...This was mostly because they had suffered the insensitivity of racism where they were relegated to slavery...A thirst to be like their masters drove their ambition to become intellectual...they had to stand up to their masters...However abberations occurred...Fela...he was a musical intellectual...in this sense I would argue that he was like the other intellectuals as he was put on the same pedestal as western musical intellectuals...
These people gave birth to my parents and their friends...however the drive to become intellectuals had diminished...the drive was material success...this they have achieved... Our parents lived off the glory of their parents...i.e. their dignity was ascribed to them partly because of whose child they were...this is not to say that they have not worked hard or that some of them have not succeeded without the help of an intellectual parent...however they have not been the saviours of our country, they work through the system and maintain the status quo...no revolutionary spirit like their fathers and mothers...
Then there is the new generation...the tomorrow of Nigeria...we have abandoned intellectualism further...our drive is not revolutionary...our drive is material success...no dignity in suffering...infact suffering...wth is that???I am guilty of this as well...I chose not to do a professional degree but in my defence...I LOVE what I do and those who know me will testify that I breath the humanities...I want to be an intellectual like my grand-parents but I don't know if I want to be that uncomfortable...
So what is my point...that this new boom of musicians, designers, rappers, make-up artists etc are a result of the desire to move away or rebel from intellectualism and find another way to succeed apart from school rather than a desire to change the status quo...in my revolutionary spirit I say...'children of the arts unite' but the truth is I cannot see the intellectualism in what we do...we are singing about girls bums, popping bottles, i'm hotter than fire...and the cliche corruption in Nigeria...it's a hard life wey we dey live o...but what are we going to do to change it...We are inspired by Hollywood to be 'artistes'...there is money to be made but let us not forget that Hollywood was created at a time when America had created wealth for its people and so this next step was acceptable!! Nigeria has not created wealth and our 'artistes' should be like Russia's Zamiatin, Gorky, Pasternak,Eisenstein...revolutionary...angry for change...why are we singing about hair and nonsense as if that's our problem in life!

To whom it may concern...

Today I am feeling happy and proud! I spoke to bay bay part 1 this weekend for about 3 hours...I hate when we don't talk often, it ends up in a massive phone bill!!!!!! Anyway so we caught up on gist and when we finished I realised that I am happy and proud...2 of my sisters are moving forward in life with the people they love...My babalon gels...One graduated and the other is speaking semi-fluent italian which she will practice this summer...They are my motivation to excel...

This post is actually for Oga not you guys, I just realised the top half when I settled down to write! I am soooooooo proud of you...I am proud of the way you have handled situations, I am proud of the way you look after my sister, I am just proud...

I was going to write loads more but I have been distracted by news in the Balkans!! I should go back to work now!

PS: I am majorly jealous that you're coupling without me...I am not going to call or speak to you guys for 5 days...like thanksgiving last year when I decided I wouldn't speak to you the whole weekend because I was not there and I was burnt..more burnt that eran ileya(hahahahaha eran ileya!!)
PPS: for the non-yoruba speakers i.e. Oga low and hmm I have to find a name for F o, wth...eran ileya means sallah meat!!
PPPS: I have realised I am a major show-off and since I cannot tell anyone I speak to nowadays about my babalon gels cos apparently I sound like a broken record, I have decided to blog about you guys instead that way I can show off my fabulous peeps to millions of people...well I am hoping loads of people read this sha...Warevs guys, I am a LOSER!
PPPPS: Ok last one, I also realised while writing that I love Alberta, I am glad we became better friends and I cannot wait till we are re-united in our mutual confusion about life!!

I love you guys!! Peace to the Delta region!!

I love you no ps!!

Ok I need to stop writing every ten seconds...I am very like this though...I love doing something all the time and then I get bored...hopefully that won't happen...Also...I'm unsure about the one eye but I think this image adequately explains...

***This is dedicated to my better half,best friend(i realise i hate this title), my sister(the one i never had), my twin(the one i'm convinced died when we were born)

I have gone through many 'best friends' and thank God I finally found the 'one'...She understands my simplicity yet acknowledges my complexity in a way even I don't comprehend... She understands those moods I have where I cry for no reason I can explain and leaves me to get better, no over questioning of whats wrong? are you ok?is it a headache?is it him?did she annoy you?none of that...just a 'recieve a bosom hug' and I laugh or I burst into tears and laugh right after...
Our friendship is easy...we disagree, we fight and then we make up...We're there no matter the number of failures we go through...she picks me up when I fall and I'm there when she is down....we have no money issues...I owe her a fortune at the moment but she understands that when I have its ofr both of us and when she has I buy food and hot dogs...and body wash...In times of heartbreak, we hate the boy together when we talk and we never hesitate to let each other's boys know of our existence...you marry one, you marry the other...I am the third wheel in her relationship right now and she accepts that...so does Oga...he has no choice, he has grown to understand these 'two peas in a pod'!

Ok so I have described our friendship! I saw your post, it made me cry, I need to cry!I know you're worried, i'm not usually on a path to self-destruction...I will be happy though eventually I pray...I light candles everyday!so I know that the right answer will come...before that though all I need rather than help is for you to keep listening to me rant and rave about the same thing...to point out when I have been immature...to allow me as usual be a loser and live my 'exciting' love life through you and Oga...the stories make me happy...I am a show off..I have told everyone and anyone that will listen to me about my friends that are in love!!!!!!I hope you come home with me...you'll give me the strength I need!!

I love you no PS!!!!!!!

The Politics of X-men origins- Wolverine

Ok so this is somehow revision...well first year international relations which may or may not count for future reference!haha!

Today I will be talking about the political undertone of X-men Origins- Wolverine...

So for those who have not seen this movie, I urge you to hook yourselves up with a cinema near you!!!!!!!If not for the love of our beautiful country which was so stupidly portrayed(i.e. the igbo spoken was impure to say the least) but for the sexual prowess of Hugh Jackman...my God...sex on legs...*dreamy eyes*

Back to politics!!!

The American foreign policy






Ok so, the mutants go to Nigeria in search of some stupid stone/diamond and they kill a few people to find it... This is typical of the US and the West in general where they make alliances with countries and then try and take over the governance of the land(democracy is not always the way guys!let Iraq go)... The refusal of the man in the office with the elevator to co-operate with the general cost him his life...The professor and his team assume this role of protection without been asked and this takes its toll on countries like Nigeria who are minding their business doing 419 and smuggling diamonds or whatever it was the 12 disciples in the defence house were up to when the man said 'ton off the elevato' in the most un-Nigerian accent...it was a cross beween Ghana and some country in East or South Africa!!!!this is the first undertone which is shown...the american foreign policy of expansion and promoting democracy at all cost...No america will not be the president of the United States of the World. so what's your bizwax if Timbuktu(its not a country!) won't democratise!Are you neighbours?NO! isich your money?NO...so pls face obesity in your country abeg!(ok that was OP!)


For the protection of the 'american people' the professor is trying to create something which will eradicate these mutants but so what is the Nigerian 'diamond' industry's concern(ps: I am not a guru on Nigerian raw materials but I doubt that the Igbos would be willing to die for something that they most likely don't have!)Same with this 'war on terror'...fair enough innocent civilians died in the twin towers but is the answer to kill thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, and a few more around the middle east...

Another aspect of this is the professor's desire to 'stop them' before they spread...straight out of the foreign office in DC...The american foreign policy is to deter all forms of threat before they think about threatening you...The cold war(which might I add, I don't believe they won, Russia lost!), this issue with Iran having nuclear weapons, Iraq's unfound weapons of mass destruction...So what if they have them, why so paranoid...who cares about you guys...in our world of anarchy, there is no safety, states are going to protect themselves from threat too...If you think you can protect yourself and your citizens, Iran and Iraq should have the free will to do the same!

RANT OVER!