February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
18 posts
The Feel Of Free: Igbo.. →
sugabelly:
pyoowata:
sugabelly:
elumeda:
Afuru m gi na anya -I love you (technically)
Afuru m gi na anya m - I saw you with my eyes
That 1 letter at the end makes a huge difference.
Actually it doesn’t. Sorry to be an Igbo grammar nazi but your grammar is wrong.
In Igbo when referring to body…
Agree with sugabelly - there is a penchant among some to create a version of Igbo that...
The Feel Of Free: Igbo.. →
sugabelly:
elumeda:
Afuru m gi na anya -I love you (technically)
Afuru m gi na anya m - I saw you with my eyes
That 1 letter at the end makes a huge difference.
Actually it doesn’t. Sorry to be an Igbo grammar nazi but your grammar is wrong.
In Igbo when referring to body…
Agree with sugabelly - there is a penchant among some to create a version of Igbo that would be...
A different take on Africa's year ahead... →
excentricyoruba:
b-sama:
This year, no tea-leaves, no “muti” or traditional medicine, no entrails or astrology and none of the usual stuff about elections, wars and dying politicians.
Instead, my predictions for 2012 deal with more every-day matters. Sorry they are a bit late, but if you like them, or hate them, or have infinitely better suggestions - please write in, and we can get together...
A place where women rule over men →
If it weren’t for the fact it was posted at BBC News, I would have thought it was some kind of elaborate sociopolitical satire.
Study links immigrating at a young age with higher... →
Haven’t read the original paper but I am hoping that the discussion of theories as to young non-Western immigrants do poorly is more extensive than “you are more likely to emigrate if you are prone to psychotic episodes.” Link to the paper is on the article.
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– e.e. cummings
2 tags
Adichie interprets the fuel subsidy wahala for...
Novelist Chimamanda Adichie attempts to translate the Nigerian fuel subsidy fiasco to her American audience by penning this in the New York Times,
Economic arguments are useful, but so are human arguments, which seem alarmingly lost on the Nigerian government. Prices have gone up but salaries remain the same. A driver in Lagos who earns 25,000 naira, about $152 a month, would have had to spend...
