The Adventures of Cosmic Yoruba
& Her Flying Machines too
I don’t want to neglect this blog in 2011. Thus, I’ll be crossposting more stuff here to save anyone the trouble of going to subscribe to my DW. Happy New Year! I encountered Kimpa Vita last year in a few paragraphs while reading When We Ruled and those few paragraphs were enough for me to…
The Last Airbender will soon be released in America soon and it seems my prayers have already been answered. I am extremely glad that the people who have seen this movie seem not to be impressed. I also hope the movie doesn’t do well at the box office (though one of my primary concerns is…
I ride in a decorated carriage, My darling rides a blue-white horse. Where should we tie the knot for our heart? Under the Xiling pine and cypress. –Su Xiaoxiao Why the sudden interest in courtesans? Well my interest did not really come out of the blue rather it was piqued sometime last year when Sugabelly…
I have waited a long time to write this post. At first when I stumbled across a newspaper article -which I must state was in the gossip section, about a princess who was ‘too proud to marry’ I was shocked. I literally could not believe it. I had to check my calendars, iPod and everything…
Image from Nashya’s Deviantart! I am sure most readers have forgotten that I am also a comic book fan! Back in May, I wrote two posts (that may or may not have been a bit incoherent) about female superheroes; The Female Superhero and Watchmen and Alan Moore Revisted. A few weeks ago, I was in…
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…
It turns out that all I am asking for from dramas and movies is simply three dimensional female characters. I honestly feel that in most cases not only female characters but also characters of colour and gay characters are portrayed stereotypically and not allowed to develop. One day my Korea-crazy friend sent me a link…
The goddess Isis who supposedly is my most important one! It is going well and that should be enough info for now. I shared my idea with my mother and she thinks it is interesting too. One day I decided that my style of writing closely resembled another author whose name I did not recall.…
It makes my blood boil when I hear things coming out the mouths of some Africans that seem more suitable in the mouths of the most extreme and ignorant racists. I do realise that most Africans do not know their own history and most people today associate female initiation with nothing but female genital mutilation.…
I will not be an excellent admirer of badass women and/in history if I do not write about the Amazons so here I go! If you should know something else about me, it is that I like love these righteously ‘hard and cold’ as I like to call them women. Foremost, Amazon literally means ‘without…