This is another old video in which we tried to interrogate American English pronunciations.
Enjoy
Browsing the archives for the Uncategorized category.
In response to 10 Reasons to Like the Last One Year
10. Nigeria, parents, friends, family…
9. Iyan, amala, ogufe, pepper soup, palm wine, plantain chips, ewedu and gbegiri, egusi
8. France, Jos, Kenya, Ghana, Calabar, Obudu, Abuja, South Africa…
7. An exhibition of photographs.
6. A new academic degree.
5. Agbero, danfo, conductor, go slow, Third Mainland Bridge, Beere-Oje-Agbeni-Ogunpa, Agbowo UI…
4. Sunshine, heat, University swimming pool, rain, mosquito nets, “wetin you carry”, NEPA, sandals.
3. MTN, Multilinks, PHCN, Starcomms, 25-in-one pirated movie DVDs, soccer.
2. Generator, iPnx, KTravula/iGwatala, Twitter, poetry, books, prose, short stories, short films.
1. Freedom 🙂
PS: Happy Birthday Laitan. You are loved dearly. Agba ti n de o. Here’s to let you know how glad I am to have you as a kid sister. Have a splendid year. Love, KT
And so inevitably, I got around to recording Frank Sinatra’s The Way You Look Tonight as well, a few days ago. Here’s how it turned out. Enjoy.
In bed.
Actually, I got up at around 4am in the morning to follow the #EnoughisEnough youth rally in Abuja Nigeria through the web video stream. I lost interest after a while, and not only because after about three hours, I couldn’t see the live video from the event anymore, or that my eyes were closing by themselves, but because I was also getting blood pressure increases from the procession of the protest, and it’s direction. As much a success as I will always agree that the event is because of its being eventually able to get the youths off their bases to make their grievances known in person, after a while, it failed to rouse me to the level of total and reckless surrender. Why? After a while, the purpose of the march seemed reduced to one purpose of getting into the National Assembly, and/or getting the elected representatives in the National Assembly to show up and address the crowd. This was not only unnecessary, it was distracting. I could be wrong but rallies have been known to be effective without being confrontational.
Spring has (un)officially begun where I am, and you can tell. You can tell from the energy of the geese, the rustle of leaves, the glare of the sun and the coolness of the wind. The trees haven’t got their leaves back, but from this change of weather, we know for sure that Spring is on its way. It is here. I went out yesterday and felt the glare of the sun. For the first time in months, I saw so many people outside. At the lake behind my residence, there were at least two people fishing because the lake is not frozen anymore. It now runs like a fresh spring. It is beautiful.
But, it is still fifteen degrees celcius. In Nigeria that is the temperature at Christmas. I told someone that and he laughed uncontrollably. Yes, it is hot for you Americans. It is a fine day, and I like it very much. I won’t wear thermal pants or closed shoes anymore, and I can stay outdoors lying on the grass face turned up to heaven for as long as I want. As long as this feeling remains, almost like another Christmas in the month of March. Welcome Spring. We’ve been waiting for you.