RETORT TO CHARLY BOY'S SANCTIMONIOUS TIRADE

Its one of these saturdays where i just feel like kicking back,laying under the duvet and pilling on the calories (saturdays and sunday are my days off from gym and calorie counting ) with this comes the predictable boredom which weekends portend.The only cure? Gossip blog surfing and spending time doing a little bit more twittering than usual. while doing my blog surf,i came across Area father (Charly boy's) letter to single ladies.Even though it was a long read,i managed to soldier through and read it to the end(dont forget its my day to lounge under my duvet) While reading it,i swiftly went through a whole host of emotions,i was aghast,irritated at a point laughing out loud before i decided such a farcial and inaccurate never mind negative perception of Nigerian men deserves some sort of  retort.

Politics of ethnicity and sundry issues

As ususal in these things,i was a bit slow on the uptake and it took me a while to get my head round what all the fuss was about.To my eternal shame i even allowed myself to be dragged into the recalcitrant fray,briefly allowing a misguided ethnocentric hue to colour my initial assessments and comments concerning the issue.Thank GOD i was able to step back before i went any deeper to re assess and critically look at the issues.I really didnt want to write about it,but all the frightening and insidious views i have read which seemed to be

FELAISM;AN EVOKING IDEOLOGY

Its another day of reflection and celebration for a music enigma,for the man who used his musical genius to awaken a whole generation's patriotic fervour and pan africanism.

I have been musing on how to adequately  put this in words for a while now,partly because of the complexity and brilliance of the man and also due to the fluidity at which his ideals and ideology has evolved over the years.Even as i write this,i must admit it is still very difficult for me to put forward an all encompassing view of what he was all about, prompting me to come to a decision that i will use my own personal perspective.Yes, he was that unique and hard to put in a box even several years later.