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16 years ago @ Yesterday's Poem - Pamela Sneed - There T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Very interesting

16 years ago @ Yesterday's Poem - Pamela Sneed - There T... · 2 replies · +1 points

That's interesting, many Yoruba have long abandoned them but I'm glad some are keeping the tradition alive.

I'm thinking of the robbing of African history, remember the slave issue, black history as it's written, the [white] patronizing of blacks, etc.

Africans have been made to loose their place in world significance.

16 years ago @ Yesterday's Poem - Pamela Sneed - There T... · 4 replies · +1 points

--2-- (you're commenting system said I can't have this as one lenghty reI call them atheist too, they are not so different from me. And yes, I would go with defination #2 as well though until now I never looked up its defination. I unconsciously used the term in one of my talks about "the African sell-out" and ever sicne just adopted it, right or wrong (afterall words are made for us).

P.S.Your translation must have been right, it's the incartation for Sango (god of fire/lightening), but just to be sure, let me try translate verbatim:
Sango olukoso oko Oya,
*"Sango" the mightiest one, husband of "Oya"*
O gbanilabara je'po
*Even upon attacking you we still appease you with palm oil *

16 years ago @ Yesterday's Poem - Pamela Sneed - There T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yoruba is a tribe, one out of the many in Nigeria. And yes, there are many traditional gods (Sango - god of Fire, Ogun - god of Iron, Oya - fertility, etc) and as kids, you where thought about all these gods and sometimes their praises [incartations].

And to point out again , Yoruba is not a religion. Being an atheist is extremely odd-y because Africans are very [very] religious and I've even had times when some have accused me of being un-African becoming an atheist. And here's the interesting twist -- they all denouce all the traditional gods we're meant to believe as kids are vital to our race.

16 years ago @ Yesterday's Poem - Pamela Sneed - There T... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm once again reminded I'm a Yoruba boy: "Sango olukoso oko Oya, o gbanilabara je'po".

Interesting how I've been coming across varying rediscoverying of the rich Africanism here and there.

16 years ago @ the Arm Chair Thoughts - An online Poetry Slam? · 0 replies · +1 points

This is great, beautiful insight. I'm already working on the blueprint hoping to find someone to implement the idea sooner.

16 years ago @ the Arm Chair Thoughts - the [vain] Pursuit of ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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The documentary answer most of the question you raised very well.

16 years ago @ the Arm Chair Thoughts - the Holy Bible [of Rap... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for stopping by :) Found i equaling interesting too.

17 years ago @ the Arm Chair Thoughts - Why do I write? · 0 replies · +1 points

It's not about running away from the problem, it's about easing through it. Denying the difficulty I might face day-through-day is folly - the point is, one should not get absorbed by it and allow solutions pass by unnoticed.

When I was 8 my parent's got divorced and this was really hard but, discovering new things (as you aptly mentioned) somehow kept the difficult off my mind. At around 9/10 yrs, I joined an orchestra; graduated high school when I was 16 and shortly after wrote an how-to book with a friend (which unfortunately never got finished cause we lost the manuscript); got into computer graphics and designs (along which I somehow picked up interest in photography); like you, did some small writes here and there before I discovered - writing and music makes me feel very good.

And every now and then, I'm not evading my hurt, but it gladdens me that some would enjoy my work (writing more especially), and maybe they might feel like I do and I can help them break the vicious circle.

I have strongly doubted if sulking about my problems really solves anything. My perpetually quest for knowledge eases me through it all - would you feel better about sharing some of yours?

17 years ago @ the Arm Chair Thoughts - The 80/20 paradigm · 0 replies · +1 points

Have heard it before but not quite in this twist. An interesting thing comes to mind though when we say we don't lie to a certain 1% in out lives.

I wouldn't agree with that. Maybe it should be more of the construct that we lie less to 1% of the people in our lives. And another thought comes to mind: with the way this culture is structured, having a 1% is almost improbable which means, we lie 100% of the people in our lives and lie even more those 100% - it's hard to draw the 1% line.

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