Today’s lesson begins with a flashback to pre-colonial Africa. For those of you who skipped secondary school history classes for bathroom sex, what is called Africa today was once a continent of several civilizations and empires. These empires and civilizations had fine standing armies, highly developed cultures, hypocritical religious creeds and even functional and corrupt bureaucracies–all … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2012
IDLEMINDSET | ALIENS ON TWITTER AND OTHER CRAZY IDEAS
Quickly, here’s the scenario. A bunch of aliens intend to visit Earth–let’s say they want to admire sunsets from Earth perspective or they want to sample some burgers or get laid or for some other wacky alien notion too advanced for us to grasp. Of course, as they are aliens with an average IQ of … Continue reading
IDLEMINDSET | THE STREET TRADERS AND THE ITALIAN SUITS
A friend of mine captured some ironic Nigerian scenarios in his blog here, while another touched on it here (with a funny story of a would-be-marriage counselor), and others also dwelt on the pervasive irony of Nigerians here and here. Irony is a way of life in Nigeria, it is hardly noticed. And if you didn’t spot … Continue reading
Ayo Sogunro 