The Leadership, Bad Brother
The Leadership, Bad Brother Reflections on the leadership of someone have inspired these musings. As ordinary as they are, daily I can best describe him as a “Brother”. Put together…
Musings
Origins of an Opintar
Origins of an Opintar “Birds got something to teach us all; About being free, yeah; Be no rain… Be no rain…”–Gil Scott-Heron, from the lyrics, I Think I’ll Call It…
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread In everyday Nigerian parlance, the word “combination”, regarding food, connotes meals that comprise unlikely combinations of food items. Meals are combinatorial products. chips…
How Does “Fuck” Relate To “Christ”?
How Does “Fuck” Relate To “Christ”? Common to social media, we are witnessing a tidal wave of swear words as ‘acceptable’ reactions. Reactions of disbelief, anger, disappointment or shock at…
Jazz Greats I Met: Clifford Jarvis
Jazz Greats I Met: Clifford Jarvis It was an autumn evening in 1996 when I visited the up and coming French jazz bassist, Collard Romain at his flat in Camberwell,…
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy A stirring confession of a man’s anguish and recovery from the problem of male impotence just before he turned age forty using African herbs.