Last weekend I went to the annual event to celebrate the life of a young Nigerian, the son of our family friend, who lost his life trying to break up a fight. I can’t believe it’s been eight years since we received that terrible news. A local Christian hip hop/R n B group called Prosper [...]
My mother celebrated her birthday yesterday, and thanks to the music festival I mentioned, finding a birthday present for her was easy: she was going to go see King Sunny Ade live! In the past four years this was my second time seeing him, and it was my parents’ third time seeing him in the [...]
I am so thankful that we’re all enjoying our summer. How do I know this? Because of the reduced activity on blogville! There are fewer blog updates to read, but even reading those seems to take more time than I have, because I’m busy soaking in the sunshine and socializing (or watching SATC, shhhh). I [...]
Ms. O wrote about her disappointment with promoters of concerts and that reminded me of this entry that I started a few months ago. Earlier this year, I went to the eLDee concert that was heavily publicized, and was disappointed. I felt bad because I convinced a few friends to go with me and nobody [...]
eLDee came to town last week. I had somehow stumbled across the fact that he’d be in town a couple of months back, so had been looking forward to seeing him perform, even though I had no idea who he was at first. I had heard his name before, of course, but I didn’t know [...]
Two songs that I have been hearing a lot of lately, Faze’s Originality and 9ice’s Gongo Aso both have the line “Khaki no be leather” in them. My guess is the expression means that you can’t compare two things that are so obviously different but I’m wondering if this is a common saying or quote [...]
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