Nelson Mandela
This Sunday, 18 July 2010 the world will gather to celebrate a man who has come to define resilence, conviction, persevrance and brute determination.
Nelson Mandela, turns 92 and celebrates 67 years of service to humanity(and his fatherland/mother land if you will).
Without pretending to know the history of South Africa or the full details of the struggles that make Mandela what he has come o be known for, or attempting to recreate information that already exists and can be easily gleaned from many sources, I’d like to state Nelson Mandela is a model of conviction and determination.
As part of celebrations, may civil society actors/groups have teamed up and are campaigning that we contribute 67 minutes of ur time on Sunday 18, July 2010 doing service to humanity.
Read about the 67 minutes campaign on the Every Human Has Rights website.
Image courtesy of: loyapower.files.wordpress.com
The following was circulated about an hour ago by concerned young people in Nigeria. I support the demands being a young person myself desirous of change and development in my fatherland. I have included my name in the signature below and I implore you to add your voice and acts to this campaign.
Nigeria is ours, we should seize it from the despots.
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March 16 is the date that young Nigerians will make their voices heard
#weneedfuel #lightupnigeria #whereisyaradua #enoughisenough!
Fellow Young Nigerians,
Did you know that, in Nigeria , young people are in the majority? Did you know that young people below 35 make up more than 70 per cent of the population? You know what that means? It means we have the power to actually make things happen!
So, how come we are doing nothing about the many problems that have hit our nation in the past few months?
Is it enough to make noise on Facebook, Twitter, websites, BBMs, blogs and others where no one is listening? How come it’s the Wole Soyinkas, the Femi Falanas and the Tunde Bakares that are fighting for us? Why do we allow ourselves to be branded as the do-nothing generation?
Like someone said recently, how can we be so talented individually and yet so disillusioned and disdained collectively? We all know the reason – we have been told that there is nothing we can do about the status quo; that the cabal is too strong. Well, that is a lie. Read the rest of this entry »
Written originally on Monday 30supth/sup November 2009
I hate to get unnecessarily emotional, but learning earlier today the President’s ailing health took a worse turn and as such has postponed his return from Saudi Arabia indefinitely was/is scary.
Last Thursday’s rumour of his death is the second in one year. The first being earlier this year when there were no official releases as to where he was or what was happening to him –after he refused to return on time from the lesser hajj, the lesser hajj in itself is critiques stated was a mere cover up. People were forced to speculate and it did not take long for rumours to circulate he was dead. A broadcast media (a TV station) was fingered and punished by the state for igniting a search for the President’s true status then. Read the rest of this entry »
Titans from the academe, industry, civil society and the in betweens (we cannt always categorize everybody) are gathered amongst the pyramids of Egypt at the IGF 2009 conference to discuss the future of information managment and sharing – hope google is represented!
As should be expected, in a gathering of such magnitude there will be many anecdotes, rhetorics, statistics, pitches, puns etc. embeded in long papers/presentations and I have decided to share my reflections (and may be some pun too) here.
This post will sure grow as I will update as facts emerge from the conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Originally written, October 28th and then forgotten until now.
Spent a while (and you can add a fortune too 
) seeing Michael Jackson’s This Is It, which premiers from today in cinemas worldwide. I could not help but conclude that Michael was a bunch of talent and deep thinking giving his calculated dance steps, deliberate pitch and troughs in his singing and the subject of his songs – which included the earth, helping the poor etc.
I cannot say I was a fan of his while he lived. True I did not miss a single showing of his biographic serial on the Cadbury breakfast TV in the 90s – can’t remember what it was called now though. Reading the Moon Walk way back in the late 90s at a time when I was able to appreciate growing up (being a teenager myself) gave me a glimpse of the pop star’s growing days – and helped put into perspective what Ihad withnessed on the TV serial earlier on. Read the rest of this entry »
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