Why I Blog about Africa?
What a wonderful question.
I will have to rephrase this question. This is to enable me go a little bit further than the demands of the question.
I would simply ask; “Why do I Brag about Africa?”.
Having spent quite a bit of my teenage as well as some adult years growing up in the United Kingdom (19 years) – honing my skills and dreaming of how to leave my foot-prints on the sands of mother Africa, I voluntarily chose to come back to the soil of Africa.
I chose to take the risks by relocating back home with my children. As confusing and confused mother Africa may appear, the blame cannot be entirely ours. Baby Africa had been passed on from one ‘mother care’ to another. Everyone, except the founding fathers had the guts to stand up enough to scream no more. This is why I am blogging about Africa.
My children, up until now, had believed all the negatives CNN, FOX, SKY and BBC had insinuated through cartoons. In jest, Africans live amongst animals, they broadcast. Many children have therefore formulated their strong opinions on why the African accent is anything but shameful. Many of our children still believe Africans live with Animals. My children were not only shocked to see for themselves, the beauty of Nigeria and Africa, the scales from their eyes which could have led to a distorted view of the continent due to glaucoma have now been cured forever. This is why I blog about Africa. This is why I brag about Africa.
I blog and brag about a continent I am so proud of, in colour, in accent, in humour, in passion, in intellect, in skills, in audacity, in ingenuity and in our meaningful names. This is why I brag and blog about Africa.
If by one word written and read from my blog – JideSalu Diary, a misconceived view about Africa is aborted, then I would have, in my tales about my family, achieved something and then I know it would have been worth it all.
So,Solomonsydelle, Theophile Kouamouo does this in a minutiae way give you a glimpse as to why I am passionate about bragging about Mother Africa?
This is why I blog about Africa!!!
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Thanks for you honest reply, we all love Nigeria and Africa as a whole. It hurts us a lot to see all our resources wasted away, by our so caaled leaders.When Nigeria was Nigeria in the 70′s and 80′s, those of us that where british born only came to England for holiday’s as Nigeria was fine and we did not lack anything. But it has been ran to the ground, the only profession that will guaranteed success is politic’s or a goverment position where you have access to the national cake.Its not easy taking s….. from oyibo’s but hey its an honest living.It hurts to read our local papers or watch the african channels and see how these so called crooks are treated like lords back home. They steal our money and then rub it in our eyes again, they have access to the places that me and you will struggle to enter. Anyway let me stop as I will go on for ever, keep the therapy going…..peace out
Mr Jide,
I have been reading your blog and I must say there has been some interesting stories.But you have to be honest with yourself, yes there are inprovements in Nigerian but there is still a long way to go for the average citizen that has no God father to guide they way to succeed and have a deciet life.Now moving back to Nigeria and taking the chance, is a personal decision.Which will also depend on what your status is in England or America. Also it will depend on what you have been able achive while abroad. Now these factors will help most people make they decisions, now individual circumtances will help people make this decision earlier or later. Now I dont know what your personal circumtances was over in England, but I think that it is a bit unfair to assume that everybody is the same. Now many Nigerian’s are doing very well abroad, they are being given oppotunities that they will never have in Nigeria without some god father, parents, tribal affiliation’s, uncle or aunty intervention. Now some people prefer to work hard on they own to achive they gaols in life and not depend on others to do favours for them. So my two pence is it is good that you have taken the decision to relocate back home with your family, but I think it is unfair to assume that those that have not have missed out or are making a mistake. As you will agree that everybody’s circumstances is different. As I said at the begining some of the stories are very good and bring back a lot of home memory’s. Peace out
Mr Peter,
Very fair comments. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Could I point out that I have not set out to castigate anyone who has chosen to either relocate abroad or chosen to cut off all links with Nigeria, Africa. I am narrating my experiences via this forum. My passion sometimes can get the better of me. But, hey, fair comments. I take it on the chin.