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Month: July 2014

Happy 80th birthday to Professor Wole Soyinka!

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Did you catch the shade? This man needs to chill ....... #NowTheyAreWoke

This is a man that doesn’t want his wife to go through what his mother did. And honestly, it started feeling like déjà vu. The press has been unfair to these people! Not to talk about those within the establishment we have not seen. His mother was a victim of the press.... the harassment literally led her to her death! Smashed into the wall of a tunnel. As a child there has been whispers and blatant jokes of who his real father is! He has has taken it all because of duty- but that was him. When one start having kids something happens to you, he does not want his child and/ or future children to experience what he did as a child! His child is part black and it is clear that we still experience institutional racism - he just won’t have it! So he has done something about it. Well done to him!

Anthony Joshua, ezigbo nwa ....

Aina Onabolu (Nigerian, 1882-1963) He is seen here showing the last British Governor - General, Sir James Robertson (15 June 1955 to 16 November 1960) around his studio in Osholake Street, Ebute Metta Lagos In September 1962 Aina Onabolu was a pioneer of the modern art movement in Nigeria,He was initially self-taught, and achieved some acclaim as a portrait and landscape painter in Lagos between 1900 an 1920. His essay 'A Short Discourse on Art', written in 1920 and published as part of a catalogue accompanying his exhibition in Lagos, examined the state of modern African art at that time: "There is a peculiar interest attaching Mr Onabolu and his works - which would have been the same if he were a European as he is an African - the fact that he had never received any training in Art. The amount of success which has attended his efforts will on the one hand be more appreciated by everybody and on the other hand be of greater value to Africans because his genius is essentially of Africa. There is no greater medium of expression of national life and character than Art and no one but Africans can fully express her joy and sorrow, her hopes and aspirations, and her changing moods and passions. In this respect a great role awaits Mr Onabolu - the interpretation of Africa to the outside world." (A.O. Delo Dosumu, preface to Onabolu, 'A Short Discourse on Art', 1920) In 1920 he left for England and France, where he studied art at St. Johns Wood School, Académie Julian in Paris, and the Royal Academy of Art in London. On his return to Nigeria, he set about laying the foundation for art education in the British colony whose educational curriculum excluded art. An art syllabus was eventually accepted, thus inspiring a younger generation of artists. Onabolu was also instrumental in getting Kenneth C. Murray invited to Nigeria to teach art, a move that had far reaching ramifications for Nigerian art. He died in 1963

Question: We had the Bakassi Boys. They were state created, regionally “accepted” but Federally not sanctioned. Bakassi Boys in theory was a great idea. To combat the security challenges not addressed by the NPF.....but the Nigerian factor wouldn’t allow it to play out as it should have on paper. Bakassi boys ended up corrupt, criminal and fetish. Taking lives and property at whim. Is Nigeria ready for Amotekun? Are states competent enough to establish this type of force? Can we guarantee the necessary checks and balances will be observed to ensure this does not end up like the Bakassi boys? And if the Federal government stands by its decision to not support this and others like it. What is their immediate solution to the growing insecurity in the nation? It is clear our current security is below par.

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