ktravula – a travelogue!

New Interesting Blogs

I stumbled across the blog 17 years, 8 months, 15 days last week, I think, from my WordPress stats page. It details the journey of a woman returning from Canada to Nigeria for the first time in years to reunite with the father of her baby. From the little I’ve read on the blog, it is a moving and interesting story of faith, hope and love.  Check it out.

The Nigerian Blog Awards 2010 have provided a new opportunity to discover new blogs by Nigerians all over the world. Check out their webpage for blogs by Nigerians listed on the right. And remember to vote not only for KTravula.com for the categories it is nominated for, vote also for fellow KTravulans Aloofaa, Bookaholic (writing), Bumight (student blog),  Jaycee (personal development) Myne Whitman, Nigerian Curiosity, Nigerianstalk.org, Nnedi Okorafor (writing), Solomon Sydelle and Verasitically Livin’ (use of media). They have all given me interestings to read during the year.

New Interesting Blogs was published on June 3rd, 2010, with the tags , , , under the Opinion, Soliloquy category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

New Week

This is a rather late update since the month began, I realize. Please forgive. I’ve been shuttling between towns and responsibilities.  But June is already here, what are we going to do about it? We can sit and watch it go by as it will inevitably do, or we can sieze each day and make it count?  I’ll personally go for the former. Gotcha, I bet you didn’t see that one coming! 😀

I cut my hair today, and I’m looking fresh. And young. Gone are the grown bushes of Edwardsville on and around my head. I’m now a good looking man with tufts of beard in the right places.  When the wind blows, I feel the waft of peace drive by around my head. Ha, lest I forget, I cut my hair for the equivalent of $2. Back in my “barber’s shop” in Edwardsville, we’re talking $15, and that’s without a complimentary lunch. Take that, barber’s shop!

Did you hear of the joke of a man who walks into a barber’s salon and looks through the list on the wall? The list read: Haircut= 200 naira, Shaving= 100 naira, Waves= 500 naira etc. So when the barber looks at him finally and asks: how do you want your haircut? The poor man looks again at the list, then at his pocket. Then holding out only a hundred naira note, he responds: “Barber, I’d like you to shave my head!”

What I intend to this month is to travel. Yes, you heard right. So get prepared. The traveller is coming to a town, city, village or hamlet near you with a knapsack bag an ipod and a little camera. It’s time for some adventure. Have a wonderful month.

New Week was published on June 2nd, 2010, with the tags , , , , , under the Soliloquy category. There are currently 3 comments on this article so far.

Lingua Fracas

An old post, a little game, here. It also works with Google translate.

Lingua Fracas was published on June 1st, 2010, with the tags , , , under the Academic, Fun category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

Desertification

Much has been said about the encroaching Sahara desert on much of the other parts of the continent. What has not been much available are physical evidence of such encroachment. I have followed closely the adventures of Nigerian Chief Newton Jibunoh who had driven across the Sahara in the 60s and lately a few years ago to call attention to desertification, but I was not chanced to see the photo result of his trips. The man has driven from London to Lagos via the Sahara desert about three times now.

While flying back into the continent two weeks ago, these were the pictures I took of the desert areas of Northern Africa from Algeria until parts of Northern Nigeria.

The sad fact, according to reports of the road trip, is that much of Northern Nigeria that were still arable about a decade ago are now covered by desert sand and dunes. Much intervention is needed, and fast, before we lose even more lands to the encroaching desert – the largest in the world. Check out this satellite picture from NASA.

Desertification was published on June 1st, 2010, with the tags , , , , under the News, Observations, Opinion, Soliloquy category. There are currently 3 comments on this article so far.

10 Reasons to Hate the “Summer” in Nigeria

10. Mud and puddles

9. Heat

8. Noise

7. Mosquitoes

6. Elephant grass

5. Houseflies

4. NTA news  (cheeky cheeky) 🙂

3. NEPA

2. Expired imported apples

1. Dust

PS: This is the 460th post on this blog. Yay!

PPS: Voting has begun in the Nigerian Blog Awards 2010. We’re up for eleven categories. Click here to vote.

10 Reasons to Hate the “Summer” in Nigeria was published on May 31st, 2010, with the tags , , under the Fun, Observations category. There are currently 4 comments on this article so far.