The Adventures of Cosmic Yoruba
& Her Flying Machines too
That African Girl asked me some questions for her ‘Behind the Words’ series in which she interviews a cross-section of African members of the blogosphere. I was so honoured (and humbled) by her choosing to interview me, Makafui had such kind words to say about me (n_n) Next up in the Behind the words series,…
In the year plus since I returned to Nigeria and promptly lost the ‘returnee’ label, the Asian presence in the home I share with my mother and cousins has become really obvious. I came back as one of the rare Nigerian fans of Korean pop and sageuk, it was very lonely. But as time passed,…
I’ve got a new guest blog over at Beyond Victoriana on African wax fabrics, specifically on their ‘untold’ history. “A picture of a pipe isn’t necessarily a pipe, an image of “African fabric” isn’t necessarily authentically [and wholly] African”. These above words are quoted by Yinka Shonibare, a Nigerian-British contemporary artist known for his amazing…
I watched this interesting movie last night using valuable sleeping hours. It happened by mistake, I was trying to show my mum this channel, Magic World Africa and it was just my luck that as I tuned in, the next scheduled movie was Almacita, Soul of Desolato. Magic World Africa is one of the many…
Long time no WordPress! Regardless I have been popping up elsewhere on the interwebs, mostly on Blogspot and Dreamwidth. About a month ago, I was invited to be a guest contributor at the amazing Beyond Victoriana, a blog dedicated to bringing “a multicultural perspective on steampunk” by the awesome Ay-leen the Peacemaker (she runs the…
This whole post is nothing but a shameless plug (or a series of shameless plugs)! I was recently invited by the authors of That African Girl to participate in their African Childhood series celebrating growing up in an African home and the quirks that come with it. I wrote a post on the childhood monsters…
For some reason I thought I started this blog in November last year but I started it in April. I (almost) forgot my blog’s anniversary, it was April 21st, but as it is still April I am not too late in celebrating then! I don’t really have much to say except I am very surprised…
To sum up my experiences as a Nigerian (in Nigeria) who has decided to keep her hair in its natural state and refuses to chemically straighten it, I believe I would be having things much more difficult if I gave a damn what other people thought and said. Yeah it sucks to have random people…
I spent all weekend ‘researching’ and though I did not find much on the representation of women in Yoruba/Nigerian/African folklore (however I did find an great article on morphology in Igbo folklore), I believe I have found the answer I was searching for. As a child I was exposed to both Western fairy tales such…