My Trips

Ok well there were no issues discussed in the upcoming weeks or months but certainly we have issues to discuss this year. First of all I did some little traveling myself and I will give you some update as we go along. First of all when I started this blog I had in mind to reach out to my friends who together I hoped we were the new generation that would move the world forward. I am not sure which direction is forward but I think there is a basic good which we can all agree with. Enough of philosophy lets discuss some history.
I did some little traveling last year. I was in Geneva for 3 Months and in Swaziland for 1 week. I was also in India for 1 week and finally ended up spending Christmas in Calabar. Ok sincerely speaking Geneva was the bomb. I got to do crazy things and met crazy people. Bear in mind that for once in my life I was socialising with people much younger than I am so I had to do a lot of catching up. I have never lived on the fast lane but I did that for three months. Camping, bicycle rides, train rides to no where in particular, clubbing, loud rock music (I was tone deaf for a while there) and finally getting to make some of my nasty dreams come true. I guess the fondest memory of all was meeting a gentleman from one of the former soviet republics. He could not speak English or french and he could not write the alpha numeric symbols. We resorted to communication by drawing pictures. Stone Age? Yeah but I also found out that a smile is a smile anywhere in the world. No need for interpretations there.
In Swaziland I got to see the country with the last absolute monarchy in the world. It is a nice place with great names that start with two or more consonants. Pretty ladies and easy dating facilities. Haha no need to get excited all you hot blooded men. Anyway the fondest moment in Swaziland was the flight to Mbambane. I though the plane might get missing I have never been in such a small air craft in my life. I had fun with the tribal displays and the Commonwealth guys.
In India it was simply incredible!!!! In every sense of the word. Affluence right beside abject poverty, latest state of the art technology right beside the richsaw cart. Well my high point was to discover that most Indians do not speak English. Well I learnt to move my head around quite well. For this year yes I have had one trip and I will disclose that in my next posting.

A New Direction

Ok finally after a few years of thinking and meditating I have decided finally what I want to use this Blog for. Well like most blogs I have read I think this Blog would serve a better purpose if I used it for the purpose of self expression especially on current issues. I sincerely hope that there will be more contents of self expression in the up-comming weeks, months and years. For all my fans, existent and non existent watch out for a new and refreshed expression from this Blog.
God bless those who believe and for those who do not believe, God help you.

Perspective from Africa

Just the other day I was scheduled to take a trip to a neighbouring country, Cameroun to be specific so I decided to search for an alternative means of transportation apart from air travel. As we all know we can see little from the plane and I thought since the flight would be less than two hours from Lagos why dont I take a road trip or sea perhaps. So like most lazy westerners I hook up to the Internet and tried to find a means fo getting to Cameroun without flying. Well using the google search engine I found several travel advisories - mostly by air- of which about 95% were outdated. Maybe someone ought to open an industry for getting Junk off the Internet. Anyway I finnally found a blog by another traveller who described how to get to Douala by ferry from Calabar. That was perfect.

However my focus is not on the trip itself but rather what I digged up on my search of the so called travel advisory websites. The favourite phrase is "all foreigners travelling to this area should be cautious as there are high rates of armed robbery and the roads are generally in bad conditions and unsafe" Initially when I read this about Limbe and Douala in Cameroun I figured I needed extra security but then I realised that this was exactly the same phrase used for Nigeria in some other sites. Funny I have lived in Nigeria for 3 decades (I am a Nigerian by the way) and for some reason which I attribute to devine protection I have not encountered any single armed robbery incedent.

Dont get me wrong I am not saying there are no incedents all I am saying is the way Africa is potrayed to the world by those who have never been here is quite irritating to say the least. Especially subsahara Africa. Intresting enough those who have had the opportunity to come over here to Africa usually return with a changed impression about the continent. It is rather unfortunate that we cannot bring all westerners to Africa to show them some home truths.

In 2005 I took a trip to the US for a 3 week holiday and my I was really impressed by the crime rate reported on local television in Florida. Well its amazing that such stuff never gets on CNN. Ok I am not castigating my brothers from the northern hemisphere where the attitude is sometimes as cold as the weather rather I would appreciate it if we could all keep the stories seperated from the facts. Come to Africa where the weather is warm and so are the people. nature was born here and still lives here.

Welcome

Hi guys this is my new blog. It is intended to be used as a form of self expression for the leaders of the future. By the way I need people to make good comments and not just ..... u know the regular talk stuff. Also keep this blog clean of obscene words and ideas. Thanks