tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post115695253711688184..comments2013-12-04T09:50:17.596+01:00Jeremy[email protected]Blogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157062958574740932006-08-31T23:22:00.000+01:002006-08-31T23:22:00.000+01:00Oh wtf! My mistake, I imagined it were Jeremy travelling around those places. Am so used to his style of writing and his stories of travels around Nigeria...the flying monkeyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00294875520555839146[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157041713209573642006-08-31T17:28:00.000+01:002006-08-31T17:28:00.000+01:00"Classic pic Jeremy...you're obviously having a lot of fun"<BR/><BR/>WTF?St Antonymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07513842500787261783[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157037549119252992006-08-31T16:19:00.000+01:002006-08-31T16:19:00.000+01:00Bisi, this is something I have always wondered about our people. I truely think we love chaos, disorder, it adds to the vibrancy of life in the tropics.<BR/>Just think wherever there are Nigerians, there is noise, commotion and drama, more so than our African neighbours.<BR/>My Senegalese and Ghanaian friends can never comprehend this: to them life is so much simpler to chill and go with the flow, an anathema to Nigerians I'm afraid.Dele[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157034946660594332006-08-31T15:35:00.000+01:002006-08-31T15:35:00.000+01:00@chxta: by your inane statement, are you asking us to assume that corrosion and deterioration is a good thing? Because you do know that's how a white statue turns black?<BR/><BR/><BR/>@Bisi: That is <I>such</I> a good question!Shango[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157034536786530942006-08-31T15:28:00.000+01:002006-08-31T15:28:00.000+01:00Makes you almost want to be colonized again.<BR/>Just kidding:)<BR/>But on a serious note, why has Nigerian deteriorated so much under African rule, are we incapable of running a successful, efficient, safe country?<BR/>Imagine a country with no crass materialism, bribery and corruption, 419, armed robbery, horrendous go slow, overcrowded cities.<BR/>Maybe we LIKE living in utter chaos?....bisi[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157032729275798452006-08-31T14:58:00.000+01:002006-08-31T14:58:00.000+01:00This is super classic. WOW! I'm tripped look how clean the streets are!Icyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626705477070422951[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157029762057229052006-08-31T14:09:00.000+01:002006-08-31T14:09:00.000+01:00Something has changed Shango or has it? essentially it's the colonial mindset that Jez referred to in his blog. Compare jefferies' document with some of Jez's blogs for example.<BR/>But again has the mindset really changed? I'm reminded of (1)rude staff at the British High Commission and (2)activities around last year's Live 8 - a 'save africa' kind of thing...<BR/>Hmm you know what? I'll just stop at this point.....Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1157028629150239972006-08-31T13:50:00.000+01:002006-08-31T13:50:00.000+01:00amazing stuff... who knew ibadan had the largest black folk population of any town in the world, at some point. And the seemingly endless rusty ibadan rooftops (even though you can't see the colors in the pic) always fascinate me.supermandruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00747284172087703449[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1156971984047165212006-08-30T22:06:00.000+01:002006-08-30T22:06:00.000+01:00Wow a 1950's blog, bloody AMAZING!! who is the publisher? Reminds me of how my Mum describes Nigeria was when she first arrived in the fifties, so much more genteel!<BR/>Love the bit about how she discovers that Black men have pink palms! What a classic, I have to say this is by far the BEST link you have given us on this blog, well done!!Funke[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1156970625401003062006-08-30T21:43:00.000+01:002006-08-30T21:43:00.000+01:00am so enviousthe flying monkeyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00294875520555839146[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1156970570527218982006-08-30T21:42:00.000+01:002006-08-30T21:42:00.000+01:00Classic pic Jeremy...you're obviously having a lot of funthe flying monkeyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00294875520555839146[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1156958617965094752006-08-30T18:23:00.000+01:002006-08-30T18:23:00.000+01:00Do you know that black statue of Sango at the Marina?<BR/><BR/>...it was once white.Chxtahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03363269342812285103[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1156954368670925222006-08-30T17:12:00.000+01:002006-08-30T17:12:00.000+01:00Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. I see nothing much's changed.Shango[email protected]