tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89668280292845055562024-03-13T00:01:11.870+00:00Life...and Living It<b><i><big><center>The cogitations of 4 Ghanaian-British women dealing with life...and living it in whatever shape it takes</center></big></i></b>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-52480310029647046002012-01-15T23:07:00.003+00:002012-01-15T23:43:39.494+00:00so... about that Romanian cage-fighter<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKweAVpdo73IFV0jWy5xgRedfdoyblhn44TEVOTrGZQdZPE-pTjw" /><span >*</span></div><div><br /></div>Ok, so Nsoromma wanted to know more about the cage-fighter...<div><br /></div><div>He was your typical white man on the hunt for something exotic...<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" /> He looked at me like I was lunch! </div><div>So I agreed to meet him 7 overground train stops AWAY from my house (why do I do this?) and when I got there he immediately flagged down an approaching<span > bus</span> - here's the ensuing conversation-</div><div><span >Me: (nonplussed) errrr why do we need a bus? we're in the centre of town</span></div><div><span >Him: (nonchalant) Oh, to go to my house</span> </div><div><span >Me: (sardonic) I'm not going to your house MATE, I don't actually know you, let's just get a drink here</span></div><div><span >Him: (slimy) Oh come on baby</span> <span >(Me: Baby?) </span><span >I'm an events planner </span><span >(Really?)</span> <span >so I've wine at mine, it's so annoying to have to buy it again outside</span></div><div><span >Me: (ghetto) Nah bruv, you must be loopy, what, are you taking me for a drink or what?</span></div><div><span >Him: (glowering) OK fine.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>After this there wasn't much conversation, when I said "let's talk" he rolled his eyes, picked his nose and said "ok , 'talk' " (making inverted commas with his hands) In short it became...well difficult, especially when the hand tried to travel to ( as he put it) my 'strrrrrong thighs mmmm'</div><div>UGH, shudder with me readers, I high-tailed it outta there, gross.</div><div> He sent me two lewd messages then buggered off (Phew!) But as I said, it was cool to be on a date, and he wasn't evil or anything so never mind eh?</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, since then there's been the sexy TWENTY YEAR OLD (who was really about 17) from Guadeloupe ( I didn't know 'e was a minor officer!), the old school and uni friend who is sweet but annoying and the new obsession. If you want to know more let me know, there's a lot to tell!</div><div><br /></div><div>I am praying through all this, and God must have a sense of humour 'cos he is bringing me BARE jokes along this journey.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyone else got some dating jokes, disasters or successes? Let us know x </div><div><br /></div><div>Friday's Teeny Weeny Afro</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Not how my cage-fighter looked...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In the slightest...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">at all.</div><div><br /></div>Friday's Afrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01785437973554150602noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-27941832173693926472012-01-14T20:22:00.001+00:002012-01-14T20:23:31.551+00:00Best Thing In My Life<div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span >First published on <a href="http://baringtestament.blogger.com">Baring Testament</a> .</span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Hi all,</div></div><div><br /></div><div>I know I've been MIA. But sometimes you just need me time. Down time, so sorry. But happy 2012 everyone! This one is gonna be a good one! Something has been sitting on me about last year, and I wanted to share. Despite not being here much last year. it was a good year for me and I thought I'd mention some highlights...they'll put this year into perspective...</div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large; ">On 31st December 2010 </b><span>at church a wrote a list of five things. Very specific, that I wanted t</span>o begin in my life. And as I get each of them I'll let you know on here. I prayed to God for them, and believed in him to answer my prayers.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span>One of the things I asked for was a permanent job by the end of 2011, paying a minimum of £30,000. </span></b>Considering I was in my first job, post-masters, barely any experience, earning £21,000, in the middle of a recession, on a temporary contract, it seemed beyond far from where I was then. Plus I was due to be out of contract at the end of January 2011. The team was full, and my manager was advising me on where to apply for jobs at my level. Maybe earning slightly more. £24,000 including London weighting looked reasonable.</div><div><br /></div><div>So following my prayer I started looking for jobs in the region of £27,000...ambitious for my level, but with London weighting of around £3,000, that would bump me up to £30,000...just about.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then an AMAZING thing happened. Three positions opened up in my team. One at £21,000 and two at £32,000. My manager encouraged me to apply for the one at my level, I was doing well, practically in-post and pretty much guaranteed it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I didn't apply for it. I applied for one of the £32,000 roles...and I got it. First choice candidate with the highest score in the interview and application. And I was expecting to get the job around December as I had put a time-cap on my very specific prayer...it came in MAY. Plus I get a travel allowance bonus. It's funny...<b><span>I was scrapping around to JUST make the mark for what I had asked God for and he gave me just so much MORE!</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Another prayer I prayed after having just broken up with my boyfriend was that I want to meet and know who my future husband would be by the end of the year. I started to date someone pretty soon in the new year who I had known since I was about 13...comfortable. He was nice, sweet, attentive and <i>INTO ME</i>. Like really. He seemed just so proud to be by my side. And he was God-fearing. <span><b>PRAISE GOD.</b></span></div><div><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span>But then something <i>AWFUL</i> happened...I just clean went off him. Like completely. For no apparent reason. And he tried <i>everything</i>, and he tried <b>SO HARD</b>, to keep it going. But it died. Just like that.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>In the meantime I was still in contact with a couple of ex's </span><span>(I must stress, this was NOT in any way other than as friends from a distance)</span><span>, including the one I broke up with in December 2010. One from a few years ago, who is in his early 30s starts talking about settling down. A few months later he's clear its me he wants to settle with and starts trying to make a play for me. Then someone <i>else </i>I was crushing on HARD in 2010 starts talking the settling down line...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>But <b>AMAZINGLY</b>, I got back with this Ex from December 2010 <span>(since blogging was SPARSE at the time, he has yet to be mentioned on here...)</span>. We didn't push our relationship. Or try to define it. After breaking up we went back to the basics of our friendship and it just seemed to grow from there. I never saw it coming. He just seemed to come out with it one day when we were talking, that he wants to be with me...and I just thought, yes. That was around April and we are STILL very happy together. Even more <b>AMAZINGLY</b> we both took it seriously, so much more than first time around. He is the first man to have ever been introduced to my family as my boyfriend and he has been very well received. And I have been invited to meet his family too...</div><div><br /></div><div>And funnily enough, it has been easier this time. Which <i>NEVER</i> happens when you get back with an Ex. When we first got together I kind of saw him as a time filler. A nice guy but not the man of my dreams. I find it truly amazing that he seems to be everything I ever wanted. And not in the least who I expected him to be. I have never been happier.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span>THEN</span></b></i> 30th December 2011, he PROPOSED. All of a sudden my mind flashes back to the prayer I made and I think 'Oh My Days, really?!'. Saying yes was the easiest thing I have ever done.</div><div><br /></div><div>God gave me EVERYTHING last year, He is truly the best thing in my life. And all the good I have in my life can be traced right back to Him. 2011 was magical for me. And it looks set to continue.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bH0p0kqCjRU/TxHeSehvAGI/AAAAAAAAAGA/ia2KHLiiXPI/s1600/EXCEEDINGLY%2BABUNDANTLY.jpg"></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-YP4ZcjG4eGjx6WQlpALcrB7hfDb-Kj-0rB6lbsl7mCZN_EPqQVknH7sVE63tEOQ7JU71ttQMqjhokcZT7DnuQ4npSFqcdY8ZqlpxPvoe3OFeQhPyBGMCsLxcvARC8yp9ednSe1-FZ16G/s1600/EXCEEDINGLY+ABUNDANTLY.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-YP4ZcjG4eGjx6WQlpALcrB7hfDb-Kj-0rB6lbsl7mCZN_EPqQVknH7sVE63tEOQ7JU71ttQMqjhokcZT7DnuQ4npSFqcdY8ZqlpxPvoe3OFeQhPyBGMCsLxcvARC8yp9ednSe1-FZ16G/s400/EXCEEDINGLY+ABUNDANTLY.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697579812701258098" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 96px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/42509180/jesus-can-do-exceedingly-abundantly"><span>Image credits</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I am TOTALLY psyched for 2012!!!!!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>What did God do for you to psych you for 2012?</div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-71442541194709143802011-12-06T21:59:00.002+00:002011-12-07T12:13:59.199+00:00Chilling with Jill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheOzkl-ncEyOfOoo9QX5jTvPPFiT_dShzfWClVXqMIyFCxMV2itrrfpg9oU3h6BA6ymXoeNnDheMk0U9bM-9K6JXhx6N9yAy-fTuWWcNbVNJc5dIudO_PFqut4QfK1ag8TLgF8yjzueao/s1600/61389167.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="200" width="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheOzkl-ncEyOfOoo9QX5jTvPPFiT_dShzfWClVXqMIyFCxMV2itrrfpg9oU3h6BA6ymXoeNnDheMk0U9bM-9K6JXhx6N9yAy-fTuWWcNbVNJc5dIudO_PFqut4QfK1ag8TLgF8yjzueao/s200/61389167.png" /></a></div><br />
When was the last time you went to a gig? I mean a really good, hip swaying, foot tapping, sing-along-till-you're-hoarse gig? Last week, I had the pleasure of seeing Jill Scott. And believe me, the pleasure was all mine.<br />
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My fascination with Jill Scott was something that crept up from behind and caught me by surprise. It was actually my girl Sankofa that put <i>Who Is Jill Scott? Vol.1</i> on my phone and practically force fed me Miss Scott's music. Her ability to manipulate words and make them mean what she wwants them to mean had me totally sucked in. The rest, as they say, is history.<br />
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So about three weeks ago when a colleague gave me the heads up about Jill Scott's UK tour (thank you Sandrine!) you could just imagine my excitement. That night, when I got home, I don't remember taking off my coat, or changing out of my uniform. I didn't pass Go, I didn't collect my £200, but headed straight for the laptop and logged onto ticketmaster.<br />
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This brings us up to last week. The date, 30th November. The time, 7pm. The place, the 02 Academy Brixton. We actually arrived at the venue at 6.30 to be met by a three man deep queue snaking around half of the building. The excitement started to bubble up inside me from then. I didn't care that I had to wait on the street, frozen to the bone for a good half an hour.<br />
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The show started with a DJ warming up the crowd with tracks from RnB's golden era. My man was laying on 90s track after 90s track from Biggie, The Fugees, Missy, Mary J Blige, Lil Kim, Tupac, Blackstreet...oooh, I was in music heaven! The crowd was great too - whether this is a positive reflection on Brixton or on Jill Scott, I don't know. But everyone was having a ball.<br />
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The lady of honour came on stage at 9 on the dot. Not a minute early, or a minute late. And there is something to be said about an artist that respects her fans enough to show up on time. She strutted on with a sure sexiness in every step. To put it in very Ghanaian terms, <i>confidence be what?!<br />
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She got the party started with one of my favourite tracks, <i>Shame</i> from the new album <i>Light of the Sun</i>. And that was it. I was taken. Jill Scott's music had me seduced from the get go. We were also taken back in time with emotion laden tracks such as <i>The Way</i> and <i>He Loves Me<br />
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What I loved about Jill was the fact that she engaged with the audience, and made us fall in love with her personality. My girl has a sense of humour! And this came shining out through her anecdotes which peppered her performance right till the end. And she did not fail to show us how powerfully feminine she really is with her <i>Womanifesto</i> and <i>Rolling Hills</i>. <br />
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This beautiful lady had us all captivated and eating out of the palm of her hand. Her voice which can be sultry and moody at one minute, and high and piercing the next is another story altogether. Trust me, you know it's good music when your thirty-something year old auntie can't stop moving.<br />
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I could go on for ages about the natural talent of this woman but I have to stop somewhere. So I'll leave you with this: it was a great night. Money well spent in my opinion. Money I would spend again and again and again to see this lady perform.<br />
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I was supposed to leave my top five Jill Scott songs, but that was too difficult. So let me say this: I love all of them.<br />
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<i>P.S. Click on the title for a little surprise!</i>Afrocentrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706608343039329489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-14486990871324468842011-10-30T16:31:00.003+00:002011-10-30T16:56:34.425+00:00Dateline....<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRGNwK7tvw8MPI88vZpZJVququgUOj_KaNz9A5RTi_4ZjzMAkctqw" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Hello all!<div><br /><div>I know it's been super long (sorry!) I'm sure that the posts will resume, although probably in sporadic and spaced-out intervals.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just wanted to write a few quick pieces about, well, my recent dating experiences. I am recently coming out of a TWO YEAR drought/hibernation/coma whatever you want to call it concerning the opposite sex...after the to-ing and fro-ing with le martiniquais and all the mess that ensued, I have been keeping myself to myself.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, following a barrage of weddings, I have decided to actively get back out there so I've recently been on one date with a Romanian-french cage-fighter (who used to be a spy of some sort...) and have been invited out by a uni friend this week, I have also been set up for a blind date...</div><div>Woohoo! I'm pretty sure I won't be seeing the cage-fighter again, but it was cool to be 'on a date' and I'm just going to try to enjoy my self. </div><div><br /></div><div>I will be writing posts on future dates, including the most painful bits (as a form of catharsis) ...watch this space x</div></div>Friday's Afrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01785437973554150602noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-20373842478913962982011-04-21T17:13:00.002+01:002011-04-22T05:38:48.218+01:00Ghollywood, Spare us the DetailsHello LALI readers. Not too long ago, I was thinking about our beloved Ghana, and all the achievements we as her children can display like medals of honour. Afterall, was Ghana not the first sub-saharan african country to gain independence from the British Colony? And can we not boast about never having a civil war? And have we not welcomed great political and historical figures into our country such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and Barack Obama? The list of achievements is simply endless, and I could have sat there for hours on end, smugly ticking them off. It makes you proud doesn't it? <br />
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It seems we have so much to be happy about, yet we have allowed our film industry to evolve into a tatesless, cheap, over-sexed monster. <b>Yes, I'm talking about you, Ghollywood!</b> (Gosh, I hate that name!) I know most of the time art imitates life, and it's not as if I don't know that people don't have sex in Ghana. But I don't really need to see a campus babe performing fellatio on a randy sugar daddy to get the gist of a film. Once upon a time, our films were authentically known for being family friendly. Now, I'm finding the industry's shift to soft porn totally overwhelming. And the swear words too! The writers need to know that the word "fuck" does not sit well in a sentence of Ghana English at the best of times. I practically have to watch a film alone first before making the decision to watch it with others!<br />
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Personally I blame the Film Censors Board for not adequately giving the films their rightful age rating (or for allowing these films to be distributed at all!), the smarmy producers such as Abdul Salam Mumuni and Socrates Sarfo (Yeah. That's right.I said it!) And the desperate actors and actresses that are so willing to play in these degrading roles. (I think I will hold off from naming and shaming here. It could be someone's son/daughter!)<br />
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Let me not be unfair, there are a few writers/ producers who know how to deliver a great film. (You go Shirley Frimpong Manso and Leila Djansi!) And let me just throw in here that Life and Living It, written and directed by Shirley is one of my fave Ghana films)<br />
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Here are the top three films that go on Afrocentric's Ghollywood Wall of Shame.<br />
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1. The Heart of Men<br />
2. Hot Fork (Even the name of this is just embarrassing)<br />
3. Kiss Me If You Can<br />
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Can Ghana's film industry, please, for Heaven's sake, spare us the details? We don't need to see it. And can we please return to a time when our films were not cringe worthy and porntastic?Afrocentrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706608343039329489noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-50134808026071584742011-03-27T00:44:00.000+00:002011-03-27T00:44:11.057+00:00Ghanaian LondonersI hang my head in shame as I write this post; I know it has been a long time since I have put anything out there. I have had so much to share with you guys in the past couple of months but procrastination and a bit of laziness really have kept me from writing anything. Please accept my humble apology. But thank God for my girls Friday’s Afro, Nsoromma and Sankofa who has kept LALI going.<br />
Now that you have forgiven me, can we move on? Thank you! <br />
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A couple of weeks, Sankofa and Nsromma agreed to attend a Ghanaian Londoner’s networking event with me, after (very gentle) persuasion. For those of you who do not know about Ghanaian Londoners, get to know. It’s an organisation created by our girl Adwoa Agyemang, whose main purpose is to connect Ghanaians in London, and friends of Ghana with each other.<br />
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Now to the good stuff! Because we did indeed come across some very good stuff. Firstly was the creator of Yaa Ataa Bags. A small enterprise specialising in bags, laptop sleeves and Ipod cases. They have a retro, or "sankofa" feel because they made from old African prints. <a href="http://yaaataabags.com/Yaa%20Ataa%20Bags.html">Check out the merchandise here!</a>The girls and I practically convulsed over the clutches. They are beautifully made, of good quality, and decently priced too!<br />
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We also met another talented young entrepreneur - the creative designer and owner of <a href="http://www.yaaohenewatextiles.com/Gallery.html">Yaa Ohene Wa Textiles</a>. It's a fabulous collection of tailored dresses, shirts and jackets for men, women and children. <a href="http://www.yaaohenewatextiles.com/Gallery.html">Please check it out.</a> I promise, you won't be disappointed.<br />
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My main reason for writing this (except to big up young Ghanaian Londoners doing great things for themselves) is to get us all networking and generally supporting each other. You'll meet a lot of weirdos on the way, but also a lot of like minded, motivated and totally inspiring people.<br />
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Anyway chaps, until the next time...<br />
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P.S. Happy B'day LALI!Afrocentrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706608343039329489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-30535542955345065142011-03-15T22:41:00.004+00:002011-03-16T00:31:48.517+00:00Flashback of the Day: Donell Jones - This LuvI've always really loved this song and since I've convinced myself that spring has arrived in London Town <span class="Apple-style-span">(na lie-oo!)</span>, my play list has been updated accordingly.<div><br /></div><div>This song <span class="Apple-style-span">feels kinna like spring time to me</span>. It's got a good beat and catchy tune, but it's also got this <span class="Apple-style-span">anticipatory vibe</span> to it, just like spring, it's brimming with promise...which is just how I feel right now <span class="Apple-style-span">(not that I'm brimming with sexual promise...just promise in general)</span>. Plus it's from the 90's<b>. I love 90's R'n'B.</b> So enjoy...the Donell Jones <i><b>CLASSIC</b></i>, 'This Luv'.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background:#000000;width:540px;height:334px"><embed flashvars="playerVars=showStats=yes|autoPlay=no|videoTitle=Donell Jones - This Luv (Official Music Video)" src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/sy-36036921001/donell_jones_this_luv_official_music_video.swf" width="540" height="334" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" name="Metacafe_sy-36036921001" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div><div style="font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-36036921001/donell_jones_this_luv_official_music_video/">Donell Jones - This Luv (Official Music Video)</a>. Watch more top selected videos about: <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/topics/Donell_Jones/" title="Donell_Jones">Donell Jones</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Can you believe this song is 11 years old now! Wow!</div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-27231878266641952982011-03-06T21:27:00.003+00:002011-03-06T21:40:09.649+00:00God bless our homeland Ghana...<span class="Apple-style-span" >As Ghanaian Londoners it would be pretty difficult to let this day go by without wishing everyone a happy Ghana Independence Day! Ayekoo Ghana!</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Our wonderful Republic has just turned 54 and we give thanks for that.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><img 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credits)</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Sometimes we get down on our people when we look at the natural resources we have, the money in our national coffers and the money in the politicians hands it seems like we have nothing to celebrate. But it no be so.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >We live in a stable land, we live in a safe democracy. Our fellow African brothers in the North (<b>Libya</b>, <b>Egypt</b>, <b>Tunisia</b>, even <b>Sudan</b>) have been fighting for the very thing that we so often take for granted. People are fighting and dying because of political repression in the neighbouring <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Côte d'Ivoire</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">. Also, we have a human resource in those of us in the Diaspora...we are always welcome home, it's no so for every person outside their country. We can chose to go home where we can help use what we have and work with our family back home to enrich our nation. We are indeed a blessed nation.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><img 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credits)</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">God bless our homeland Ghana!</span></span></div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-67494471553826854432011-02-03T13:26:00.000+00:002011-02-03T13:26:16.434+00:00The worst punishment in the world?*Embarrassed cough* Happy (extremely belated) New Year all! I'm not even going to insult you all with lame excuses. Hope there are some of you still out there reading. This year just doesn't seem to be starting off great for me and I sincerely hope I'm in the minority here. I hope everything's going wonderfully for all of you anyway.<br />
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I was having a random conversation with <b style="color: #38761d;">Nsoromma </b>last night about the punishments people used to receive as children and she related a story of a girl who was a couple of years below her in secondary school and I just had to share.<br />
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This child (she must have been about 13) had been giving her Nigerian parents the stereotypical teen girl trouble of staying out later than her curfew, hanging out with unsavoury boys etc. etc. and I guess her father just snapped. She came home late from school one too many times and her father frogmarched her to a barber shop in the middle of Peckham and clean told the barber to shave her hair off! Think less Amber Rose and more this:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wiw.org/~jess/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/coneheads.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://wiw.org/~jess/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/coneheads.jpg" /></a></div>What makes this whole story worse to me that she lived in Peckham! You're always bound to bump into somebody you know in Peckham amongst the thugs, aunties, and fine boys. This poor child had to get on a bus from Peckham to Elephant and Castle everyday with her shining head until her hair grew back. As punishments go, I thought this touched the heights of genius.<br />
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This then lead to a conversation I saw on twitter asking if anybody else was <i style="font-weight: bold;">'gingered'</i> as a child. Now I remember two or three of my friends having this done to them when they were about 10 or so and even now it horrifies me. For those who don't know, getting 'gingered' involved having ginger (or hot pepper) inserted in your vagina or anus as a form of punishment. In other words, total and utter child abuse.<br />
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The nastiness of 'gingering' aside, this leads me to the whole point of this post: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">what is the worst punishment you've ever received?</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> It can't possibly be worse than having your hair shaved off in the middle of Peckham can it?...</span>Sankofahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15747229111296889760noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-75578308158447624352010-12-27T16:29:00.003+00:002010-12-28T10:56:20.928+00:00Merry (belated) Christmas<div style="text-align: left;">Hi all,</div><div><br /></div><div>I'd decided to stay away from social media this Christmas. In this bid to stay off all social media outlets and stay faith and family focused, I hope that none of the LALI followers feel too neglected.</div><div><br /></div><div>So here's to you, our dedicated readers. Hope you had a very...</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHrk8ZnT-KeLZuNJpVL6oXgj-4MY4TmNE5fLze3SdwgYaUDp8kWA" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">...and we wish you all the very best in the new year! We also hope you were able to spend some quality time with your loved ones and enjoy some seriously good food. But above all I hope you grasped the true meaning of the season, which isn't presents or food or family. It is about the love God had for us that was so great that he decided to live among us to begin the process that would bring us all salvation.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQI635U5XGE_dQVOcWRduqnPtbVlAnVnZBRC8NZ_J-msry16XQE" /></div><div><br /></div><div>So from the LALI girls, hope you enjoyed a truly great time in every sense of the word and I really do believe next year will be a great year. Watch this space! LALI will be making moves in 2011!</div><div><br /></div><div>Love always,</div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-48880027434365945162010-12-18T13:24:00.005+00:002010-12-18T20:14:18.799+00:00Nick Griffin may have won...but he's still an eternal loser<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLCpWK8jEV0t2RAGGakfJM6Itr72KR0pDjUwICpQch6cwzt1xs"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 232px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLCpWK8jEV0t2RAGGakfJM6Itr72KR0pDjUwICpQch6cwzt1xs" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLCpWK8jEV0t2RAGGakfJM6Itr72KR0pDjUwICpQch6cwzt1xs">(image credits)</a></span></div>Ok, I know that sometimes <span class="Apple-style-span" >(maybe slightly more often than sometimes)</span> I can drip pure vitriol about certain people. Occasionally its unjustified. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >But this isn't.</span></b> This is the BNP. This is Nick Griffin. Scum of the earth type personality, etc. etc...I'm sure you understand where I am going with this...<div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, back to the most recent reason to dislike him. So it seems that the BNPs racist membership rules are OK. Like WTF?!?!?! To be fair anyone who wants to join the BNP has many deep rooted issues and probably suffers from regular psychotic breaks. Plus, any 'ethnic minority' who's wishes to do so has very clearly lost their mind. But the <i><span class="Apple-style-span" >issue</span></i> is that if <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >the BNP</span></b></i> were allowed the 'free speech' to hate anyone <span class="Apple-style-span" >(Read: ME)</span> who is not a part of their Aryan dream, then <b><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>everyone else</i></span></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" >(Read: ME)</span> has the right to <b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" >not</span></u></b> be subjected to discrimination if they wish to become a BNP member <span class="Apple-style-span" >(God forbid)</span>. Or to just genuinely twart their plans by making sure that the discriminatory practices which they thrive on are disallowed <span class="Apple-style-span" >(yay!)</span>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Their membership rules were deemed discriminatory by the <b>Equality and Human Rights Commission</b>, who then took court actions against them. In response to this action against their rules the party revised their constitution <span class="Apple-style-span" >(still seems racist to me but it is less overt)</span>. These snaky moves by the snaky BNP to avoid facing the music seems to have allowed them to get away with a more indirectly racist membership protocol. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Whatever</span></b>. Point is, they are racists and we all know it. They've won this stupid battle but I still applaud the Equality and Human Rights Commission for doing their bit in our war against the racists.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>After all, if the behaviour of the BNP keeps them monitored and under scrutiny, the ruling is almost irrelevant. <b style="font-size: x-large; ">Plus they are eternal losers anyway</b><span class="Apple-style-span" >.</span></div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-78793472617307136782010-12-16T01:07:00.000+00:002010-12-16T01:07:00.756+00:00Flashback of the Day: SWV - WeakLast Thursday I went to a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>SWV/Faith Evans concert</b></span> in the IndigO2 with two of my girls including <b><i>Sankofa</i></b>. It was amazing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(ain't nothing like a 90's party y'all!)</span>! I can't believe those girls can still blow like that! Power to them, I say. And they looked damn good too. It was so surreal seeing them up there, I felt like a 12 year old just watching them up there, it really did throw me back in time.<div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, ever since that day this one track has been STUCK in my head! So I thought I'd share.</div><div><br /></div><div>So enjoy it with me...Weak by SWV. </div><div><br /></div><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h6qiV2nS6Js?fs=1&hl=en_GB&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h6qiV2nS6Js?fs=1&hl=en_GB&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-16887520464736296992010-12-10T18:31:00.005+00:002010-12-10T18:46:09.555+00:00Book Review: ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ by Patrick Ness<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Knife_of_Never_letting_Go_cover.jpg/200px-Knife_of_Never_letting_Go_cover.jpg" alt="Knife of Never letting Go cover.jpg" /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">This was one of the books that I read late last year when I returned to my roots as a bookworm. So here is the review I have been meaning to do for <span style="font-size:8.0pt">(more than)</span> a few months for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Knife of Never Letting Go</i></b>...Shout out to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Sankofa</i></b> for lending me this book when she went to Ghana. She knows me too well; I <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">trust</i></b> her taste in books!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Title: </b>The Knife of Never Letting Go <span style="font-size:8.0pt">(love the title by the way, it caught my attention straight off the bat)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Author: </b>Patrick Ness</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">First published: </b>2008</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Plot summary: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">T</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">odd Hewitt is a boy in Prentisstown, where all boys become men at the age of 13. Todd has one month to go, and as far as he knows, Prentisstown is the only settlement in the world. After a native group known as the 'Spackles' released a germ, all the women have died, meaning that the men of Prentisstown are a dying race. As a side effect of this germ, the remaining men in Prentisstown can hear each other's thoughts, known as the ever present cascade of ‘Noise’.</span>..</span>Find the rest of the plot summary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knife_of_Never_Letting_Go#Plot_summary">here</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Review: </b>I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I cannot say that it was the easiest read. But sticking at it paid off, I love the way in which Ness creates a whole other universe and something about the story reminds me of Malorie Blackman’s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Noughts and Crosses</b></i> and Margaret Atwood’s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">A Handmaiden’s Tale</b></i>, two all-time favourites of mine. I think it’s the whole broken world thing they all have going on. The story line is complex enough to keep you reading but straight-forward in a way that it needs to be so that you understand the plot. Oftentimes, in a book that creates a whole new world complicated plots make the book a long and tiresome read, however this book does not suffer from such a failing. Perhaps, because it is young adult literature <span style="font-size:8.0pt">(a favourite genre of mine)</span> the author holds back from over complicated story lines. The concept behind the book was a real winner, no so much that Prentisstown is loud and male. But I love that Todd and Viola have to learn to communicate around silence and noise. It’s an important lesson. I love how Todd is initially intimidated by her silence and has to learn to overcome this. A true coming-of-age book in every sense, not just Todd but the whole world literally has to come of age in order to defeat Mayor Prentiss. One thing, however, that did strike me as a failing was the books’ conclusion. I feel like in Ness’s bid to get a follow up book deal, the end of the story was mistreated. It felt like a rushed, contrived ending which was totally unnecessary. I had a moment at the end of the book when I wanted to punch something coupled with a weird sense of déjà vu. I really felt for the protagonist, like, here we go again. The poor boy will have to wade through this lunacy for another 400-odd pages in part two! In my opinion the book would have benefitted much more from ending the story of our protagonist right there. However, having said that if you bought me the follow-up <span style="font-size:8.0pt">*hint, hint*</span>, would I read it? Hell yeah!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Rating:</b> Another four Nsoromma’s out of five.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1029" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:44.25pt;" filled="t" fillcolor="yellow"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Nsoromma\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" title="Nsoromma"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img border="0" width="59" height="59" src="file:///C:/Users/Nsoromma/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" shapes="_x0000_i1029" /><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1028" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:44.25pt;height:44.25pt;visibility:visible;" filled="t" fillcolor="yellow"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Nsoromma\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" title="Nsoromma"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img border="0" width="59" height="59" src="file:///C:/Users/Nsoromma/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" shapes="_x0000_i1028" /><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:44.25pt;height:44.25pt;visibility:visible;" filled="t" fillcolor="yellow"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Nsoromma\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" title="Nsoromma"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img border="0" width="59" height="59" src="file:///C:/Users/Nsoromma/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" shapes="_x0000_i1027" /><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:44.25pt;height:44.25pt;visibility:visible;" filled="t" fillcolor="yellow"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Nsoromma\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" title="Nsoromma"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img border="0" width="59" height="59" src="file:///C:/Users/Nsoromma/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" shapes="_x0000_i1026" /><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:44.25pt;height:44.25pt;" filled="t" fillcolor="window"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Nsoromma\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" title="Nsoromma"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img border="0" width="59" height="59" src="file:///C:/Users/Nsoromma/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image003.gif" shapes="Picture_x0020_1" /><!--[endif]--></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">4/5 stars</p>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-38317518765846019172010-12-04T16:34:00.000+00:002010-12-04T16:34:26.345+00:00Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....Firstly, I apologise for the fact that we let the past couple of months go by without any kind of blog post and I hope you forgive us. Life is getting in the way of blogging it seems and we just can't have that now can we?<br />
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Well those of us currently stuck in the UK are experiencing a weather emergency. For the third year in a row, the UK seems to have completely shut down in the face of a little snow. Airports have been shut, train schedules have been completely turned on their heads, some buses aren't running and there's nary a bit of grit or sand where Nsoromma and I live. Yes I even busted my ass on an icy patch whilst attempting to pick up Nsoromma's foster brother from his school. We were effectively snowed in for three days while the rest of London struggled to get around. I know we like to pretend that this weather is 'unusual' but after three years, it looks as though it's here to stay. Other countries seem to manage it fine and I think we're all running extremely low on patience.<br />
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What makes all of this worse was that they <i>knew</i> there was snow coming well in advance. Why are local councils caught out again and again even with advanced warning? What are they doing with our council tax? Funny thing is I used to love snow but now it feels as though nature's having a big old laugh at our expense. How have you been coping with the snow? Love it? Hate it? Comment away!<br />
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(What I wouldn't give to be in Ghana right now...)Sankofahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15747229111296889760noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-52099001837947975332010-09-22T00:39:00.010+01:002010-09-22T01:18:40.731+01:00Diversification<strong>Diversification</strong>:[dih-vur-suh-fi-key-shuhn]. <em><strong>noun</strong></em>- <em>the act or practice of manufacturing a variety of products, investing in a variety of securities, selling a variety of merchandise, etc., so that a failure in or an economic slump affecting one of them will not be disastrous. </em><br /><br />How many time have you walked past a black owned shop, to find that not only does it specialise in hair products, but it's also laden with mops and buckets, DIY tools, cleaning products, plantain crisps, bread, water and everything and anything else its savvy owner can think of? (Let's not forget the money transfer booth, and the calling cards on the side)<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I am not oblivious to one's need to branch out into other markets, especially in these times, but I cannot count the number of times I have walked past shops that seem to be nothing more than glorified junk sales, filled with a mish mash of different products. It's horrific to see the confusion going on in some shop windows. It just leaves me thinking, <em>"mate, you're not being a smart business man, you just look confused!". </em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_y06dV8fAX6M6bHevx62wQvvnRXezjhcxBMSb6hXZ9KwjvLOQWF7692bDJ76NYt739UYZB-5iRIRFD6ji7y8PR6J2Zj3E57tzHu_GcjveZhtFnuOOPE-kEq24fz-us2EAy_RcrepWE9g/s1600/21092010307.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_y06dV8fAX6M6bHevx62wQvvnRXezjhcxBMSb6hXZ9KwjvLOQWF7692bDJ76NYt739UYZB-5iRIRFD6ji7y8PR6J2Zj3E57tzHu_GcjveZhtFnuOOPE-kEq24fz-us2EAy_RcrepWE9g/s320/21092010307.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519520214970561970" /></a><br /><br />I took this photo of a shop on Plumstead High Street today. I remember the first time I passed it. I was gobsmacked! How are you going to name your shop "MONEY & CALL SHOP HAIR SALON MUSIC" and expect me to take you seriously? If you're going to branch out, at least invest some thought into it!<br /><br />Earlier this year, I was walking down the same high street with Sankofa, when another one of those "<em>anything will do </em>" shops caught my eye.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yjrQMBGhOwOzVHerlQBe-L9il-cwYBiDhp0m_0mffJMS67dhjZvo3Zx9yfDl2rsNvxa3ggXQunjtFBhB6cxtbIH-b2-q7h06QnXfNQ2rzOyM_i3bfWfab5gfPBiyYfu0KMS23JvK4fk/s1600/10042010039.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yjrQMBGhOwOzVHerlQBe-L9il-cwYBiDhp0m_0mffJMS67dhjZvo3Zx9yfDl2rsNvxa3ggXQunjtFBhB6cxtbIH-b2-q7h06QnXfNQ2rzOyM_i3bfWfab5gfPBiyYfu0KMS23JvK4fk/s320/10042010039.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519522838466740178" /></a><br /><br />You may not notice it at first glance, but there is actually a lot of activity going on in this shop. How many products and services can you see up for sale here? I'll start you off with the £5 hair cut being advertised in the window :)Afrocentrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706608343039329489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-2182503451077118562010-09-02T00:09:00.003+01:002010-09-02T00:32:22.271+01:00Hair Happy<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs075.snc3/14267_600837290696_60500903_36319369_4125461_n.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I am finally facing up to my 'real' natural hair...I've been natural for three years now, and the first year was mostly spent in braids or the small afro, the second year, I was mostly pregnant, and my hair was <i>flowing</i>, soft, curly and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; ">long</span>! Then ... I gave birth and with the final push went all my beautiful hair, the front quite literally d</div><div> r</div><div> o</div><div> p</div><div> p</div><div> e</div><div> d out (and those telling me "it's because you had a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;">boy</span>" were of NO HELP WHATSOEVER!) it became 'unmanageable' and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>short</b></span>, and I let myself be convinced into texturising it, wow was I enchanted by those loose curls and few extra inches, but like most things it had to come to an end, a stringy dead end H<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">aHa</span>. After this I decided, <b>no more messing about</b>! I cut off all the texturised bits and started again (again!) and now I have had short <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663333;">dyed</span> gel twists, cornrows, full afro, weaves+braid combis and countless weaves. But I'm happy, my hair is really real again, if I wash it and (gasp) don't blow-dry it then I have an small, edgy afro which I can pull at to create some texture, but when I blow-dry it it is surprisingly long! I was getting a blow-dry up north in Liverpool, and there were white people getting weave tracks (trust me BIG BUSINESS UP THERE!) these women were amazed at the difference in length from when I first sat in the chair.</div><div><br /></div><div>I just sat there demurely pretending I couldn't hear their gasps of astonishment... and when my Scouse cousin said, 'gosh girl, you've got a lot of hair!' I...JUST...SMILED ;-)</div><div><br /></div><div>P.S I don't y'all seeing the real me haha x</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs075.snc3/14267_600838153966_60500903_36319376_1652834_n.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Friday's Afrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01785437973554150602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-30349247416047282562010-08-15T22:47:00.002+01:002010-08-15T22:58:28.652+01:00On Getting Married...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbtHV3hobRLk1aSLy_IiuIkCVIY6EduauYhrmJrijiEVeahNw&t=1&usg=__jB2JBTsSTtguyHNyI5nTazltKHI="><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 152px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbtHV3hobRLk1aSLy_IiuIkCVIY6EduauYhrmJrijiEVeahNw&t=1&usg=__jB2JBTsSTtguyHNyI5nTazltKHI=" border="0" alt="" /></a><span xmlns=""><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(This was written about a month ago in the run up to my sister's wedding...I'm only really now getting the chance to post...there will be a few of these. Soz)</span></p><p>Sankofa has <b><i>always</i></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(well at least ever since I have known her)</span> made it very clear that a big church wedding and the surrounding bru-ha-ha is not for her. And I think there have always been parts of me that agree with this stance; but still I cling to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(my?)</span> dreams of a big white wedding. Perfect in every way. With me and the hubby smiling at the fore.<br /></p><p>As one of those children who seemed to always fall into the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(mis)</span>fortune of being a flower girl, I thought I had seen it all, in terms of the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">tears, tantrums </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> abject misery</span></b> that are behind the scenes of some of the weddings I have been involved in.<br /></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, as an adult what you see is WORSE. My sister is in the process of organising her wedding. She and her hubby-to-be thought it would be a bright idea to get married in </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">KUMASI</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (Ashanti region, Ghana)</span>...even though her and her hubby are based in <b>EDINBURGH</b>...mum lives in <b>LONDON</b>. Well...all I can say is they had a dream. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hmmmm...good luck to them!</span> We are finally in Kumasi with two weeks to go; hubby to be is still not here. At this point, I'd sooner pack up and head home. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It's the biggest nightmare you could imagine.</span></b> I'm talking a cold war between the parental units, an overly determined wedding planner with illusions of grandeur, the rainy season, a travel agent under investigation for fraud and underselling tickets, wedding invitations which do not name the groom spelt correctly, bridesmaid dresses having to be re-done, flower girls <i>BY FORCE</i>, big dreams and an ever decreasing pot of money...oh...and money grabbing distant relatives. <b>JOY</b>. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. And I would like to throttle the sister. She keeps crying. It's doing my head in. I'd like to slap her. HARD. <i><b>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr</b></i>.<br /></p><p>By this point I'm in such firm agreement with Sankofa. Allow this long nonsense. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I'm having a registry wedding.</span></b> KMFT.</p></span>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-18074185240618308202010-07-20T13:21:00.001+01:002010-07-20T13:24:39.809+01:00Back to the Future<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://letstourghana.com/kaneshie-market.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://letstourghana.com/kaneshie-market.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I am back in Ghana for the first time in 6 years. This is my second ever visit and it feels so different coming back. It's funny that coming here aged 18 I was really impressed by my country. I think being born and raised in the UK, my family back home expected me to be wholly underwhelmed. People hyped up Ghana's negatives in an attempt to make the country seem better to me than they had advertised it to be. It seemed to me to be a ploy. A rather perverse way to make me fall in love with my heritage.<br /><br />This strategy was misguided to say the least. I was more than ready to love Ghana. Contrary to popular belief (in Ghana), many of us abrokyirefuo enkola are more than ready to embrace the country of our parents. It helps give a sense of identity when living in a country (like the UK) where people forever ask 'where are you <i>really</i> from?'.<br /><br />This return journey however sees me in a much different mood. I'm in Accra for a few days <span style="font-size:78%;">(which to me equals me being lost! Being from a pure Kumasiano family--don't judge me :P)</span> am I'm taking a better look than the fleeting glance of a few years back.<br /><br />All of a sudden I am not so impressed.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> It's like looking at a beautiful picture with cracks in it.</span></span> As I've grown older I think I have become more and more invested in being a Ghanaian. I am emotionally invested in our sport <span style="font-size:78%;">(as you can tell)</span>, politics, language and culture. But the more invested I am, the more pain I seem to feel. It's like watching a child with 'so much potential' hit 30...and all that they have achieved is the title of 'the former child with so much potential'.<br /><br />Arguments that diasporian Ghanaians should come 'back home' and set to rights their country have always erked me. Firstly, because in many ways for people like me it is no more 'coming home' that it is for any random African-American. <span style="font-size:130%;">It's just not really home. </span>You see, you can never mistake home, love it or hate it there are particular emotions linked to the idea of home that separate diasporians from our 'home-grown' counterparts. Secondly, I think it is somewhat disrespectful to barge in and take over what you don't know. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Who am I as a diasporian to Waltz in and decide my way is better?</span> There is much to be said for local knowledge. It's priceless.<br /><br />Nonetheless, I feel disappointed somehow in Ghana. There is a lot to be done and I feel like the country has stagnated. But there is also much to be hopeful for. <span style="font-weight: bold;">There is a generation emerging who want to make a change; I want to be a part of that somehow. I need to find my place in helping to get it all done.</span>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-22204821654134001942010-07-19T15:46:00.007+01:002010-07-19T16:09:16.429+01:00Ashanti version of 'community platforms'I am hoping to travel to <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Gh</span>a<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">n</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">a</span></span> in the next month with my family. This is a well and eagerly waited-for trip, and I can't wait to be outta here and sunning myself in the GH! So, I wanted to look at some pics of the ol' homeland and typed in a few areas I am interested in visiting and revisiting, you know, Accra, Kumasi, Koforidua (<span style="font-size:85%;">shout out to my homegirl Sankofa</span>) and from Wikipedia came the link, <a href="http://mygardencity.com/">www.mygardencity.com</a>, billed as <span style="font-style: italic;">community platform for Ashanti region</span>. And I say 'cool, interesting'. So I'm scanning, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Opoku Nti for Asante Kotoko</span></span> - and I say 'cool', <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Majid did not finger me-Nadia </span></span>- cool, <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">eliminating child labour, the success story </span></span>- great! <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">power cuts annoying Ghanaians </span></span>- 'pff, understatement' and I laugh hahahhahahah- huh? wait wait wait REEEEWIIIND back to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Majid did not finger me</span> ...<br />and I say... WoW<br /><br />OK, enough of that, back to work.<br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/STAFF%7E1.WEL/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-6.png" alt="" />Friday's Afrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01785437973554150602noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-53199504390630562392010-07-02T17:35:00.003+01:002010-07-02T17:45:36.976+01:00In Anticipation...Yes, yes, yes! I am a football addict. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">FACT.</span></b> There. I said it.<div><br /></div><div>Now on to more important business...in less than 2 hours my country of heritage, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>GH</b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC00;">A</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><b>NA</b></span> will be facing the might of Forlan's Uruguay. To say I am nervous is an understatement. Being house-bound with my foster bro while all my peoples are out at the Ghanaian London spots...<i>Gold Coast Norwood</i>, <i>Gold Coast Brixton</i>, <i>Ekubanz</i>...<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">WHERE EVER</span></b>...I just wanna put it out there. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I wish my BLACK STARS all the best.</span></b> Win, draw or lose they have made me so proud. Right now, it's great to be a Ghanaian!</div><div><br /></div><div>And just to keep that smile on your face...here's the <b><i>'Asamoah Gyan dance'</i></b>...</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eII_AnJYfIw&hl=en_GB&fs=1?rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eII_AnJYfIw&hl=en_GB&fs=1?rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div>Let's hope that by the end of today we still have a reason to smile :D</div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-40711729994332488582010-06-28T16:06:00.005+01:002010-06-28T20:21:35.488+01:00I AM GHANA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRtsqnbv780A0QPJd0a63AHSKyeNgpI-2MiJhlejZ9JXrpGubic3iBPU5tCOndNOz9plQ14yfOYSEKms1IKaZzHUgiO0xyeZ7IwnGnc1lj4PCBQ6BT-vwiMGf1-3zdI-nassNDw_7qdoSl/s1600/imagesgh.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRtsqnbv780A0QPJd0a63AHSKyeNgpI-2MiJhlejZ9JXrpGubic3iBPU5tCOndNOz9plQ14yfOYSEKms1IKaZzHUgiO0xyeZ7IwnGnc1lj4PCBQ6BT-vwiMGf1-3zdI-nassNDw_7qdoSl/s400/imagesgh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487843804115401890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/STAFF~1.WEL/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.png" alt="" />It seems that the earlier posted epic day is becoming a 'day' in bible terms, (i.e who knows how much time it actually measures?)<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Gh</span>a<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">n</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">a </span></span>is still on top, 3rd african team to reach the final eight in history and <span style="font-weight: bold;">the only this world</span> cup!!!!!! Saturday was a good day but then...Sunday came, wow <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Eng</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">url</span><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">and</span></span> boi - I actually feel sorry for them because if Lampard's goal had been allowed I think it would have been a different game, the ref is a twat, sorry boys.<br />Anyway it was not easy but I have decided to pick myself up and start the vigil for Ghana - South America what? Uruguay who? We got the fans to do it and the soccer to play it so COME ON BLACK STARRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!<br /><br />Also I LOVED the 'I am Ghana' thing, wicked!<br /><br /><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W3tEm_O23GE&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W3tEm_O23GE&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Friday's Afrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01785437973554150602noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-73997894853464381692010-06-24T14:32:00.000+01:002010-06-24T14:31:34.550+01:00An Epic Day of Sport!I love World Cup years! I love the fact that there is football, tennis, F1, all packed into one very small time frame. Sorry for those of you who don't like football but the World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world <b>AND I LOVE IT</b>. I have been glued to pretty much all the group phase games...particularly for my beloved countries GHANA and ENGLAND! My nation of birth and my heritage; I just <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">have</span></i> to rep both to the fullest!<div><br /></div><div>To be honest, the vibe in South Africa looks amazing but the African teams have been awful as have many of the European teams. So come yesterday, I had a tense day ahead as <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">England faced Slovenia</span></b> and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ghana faced Germany</span></b> to qualify...</div><div><br /></div><div>So up first <b>ENGLAND</b>; the perrenial under-achievers. It can get so annoying, there is so much heartache in the ups and downs of supporting England. The fact that the other nations hate us and wish us ill, and the press hype the team up so high that they can never come good. But this year, many felt the<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC6600;"> 'golden generation'</span></i></b> should peak and come good. Then Rio Ferdinand got injured and my heart sank a bit...then we played the USA, and the draw was a little disappointing...then we played <b><i>Algeria</i></b> and I almost gave up! But <b>THEN</b> something incredible happened...when England came out for the match yesterday <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">they were ready.</span></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>They were <i>on</i> it.</b></span> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">AND WE WONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><img src="http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01071/1_1071339a.jpg" /></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01071/1_1071339a.jpg">image credits</a></span></div><div>Pheeeeeeeeeew!</div><div><br /></div><div>Round two. Supporting <b>GHANA</b>. The<i> 'youngest'</i> African team. Errr......<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-large;">really?!</span></b></i><b></b> Hmmm, moving on. We have been organised and solid for a few years now. After a very good result against Serbia and a disappointing game against Australia. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-large;"><i><u>THE</u></i> TEST</span></b>. Borga-land. We were to play the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">jamians</span></b>! Ebei! Even though both teams included a Boateng, there was only ever one team I wanted to win...the one that included the Mensah's, Asamoah's, Ayew's, etc. But honestly, I expected <i>ANNIHILATION</i>. But it didn't happen. We held them for an hour and even deserved to score and though we lost, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">WE ARE THROUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01661/Ghana_1661640c.jpg" /></div><div><a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01661/Ghana_1661640c.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">image credits</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I was almost beside myself last night! How could both my teams go through. And even better they don't face each other. In such a game, I would surely have to take to my bed and sleep. Enye sa menya hypertension paaaaaaa <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-small;">(tr: If not then I'd have really bad hypertension)</span>! <i>PHEW!</i> Job done!</div><div><br /></div><div>And as if that was not enough, who caught Wimbledon last night?!</div><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-fXetF_bnVM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-fXetF_bnVM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div>The longest game in Tennis history. 2 sets all 59-59 in the final set. Erm.....WOW.</div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed an epic day in sport!</div><div><br /></div>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-27559264778936870042010-06-21T07:57:00.003+01:002010-07-20T01:31:29.684+01:00Song of the day: Nneka- 'Heartbeat'For those of you not yet acquainted with the beautiful <b>Nneka</b>, get to know! This Nigerian-German songstress has been making moves for a while now and this is one of my favourite songs off her debut album "Concrete Jungle" (or "No Longer At Ease" as it was earlier known). I'm in a fighting mood today so I'm going to let Nneka provide the soundtrack to my week. Enjoy this live performance from <i>Letterman</i>.<br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"And now the world is asleep<br />
How will you ever wake her up when she is deep in her dreams, wishing<br />
And yet so many die<br />
And still we think that it is all about us<br />
It's all about you<br />
You sold your soul to the evil and the lust<br />
And the passion and the money and you<br />
See the same ones die, people hunger for decades<br />
Suffer under civilized armed robbers, modern slaveholders"</span></span></blockquote><br />
(I wonder who she's supporting in the World Cup?)Sankofahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15747229111296889760noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-6449805207150060932010-06-19T01:28:00.006+01:002010-06-19T11:23:43.889+01:00This Is My Testimony...Nsoromma's Story, Trouble Don't Last Always...<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ezgtoons.com/images/testimony.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 335px;" src="http://www.ezgtoons.com/images/testimony.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><span xmlns=""><p>Since I wrote my last post my life has been a total whirlwind! But to re-cap, I handed in my notice at work at the end of last month. I was not happy. I needed a change, a push, <em>some</em>thing to bring me back to life. I stepped out on these feelings and decided to quit. Wrote a nice resignation letter to the boss and waited out my notice period. Funnily enough, the day I handed in my resignation was the same day I had quite a few application deadlines.<br /></p><p><em>Anyhoo</em>...about a week and a half later I get a call-back asking for an <strong><em>interview two days later</em></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> I immediately said yes, not even really realising what the job was for. But I did recognise that the end of that week would be my final day at work so I was still pushing for a new job </span>(that ever-elusive career breakthrough role)</span>. I had two long back-to-back shifts in the two days before my interview and I started to get really worried that I would not have time to prepare. The day before the interview I worked til 10pm and got home near to 11:30. I was knackered and I had so much to do! I started panicking, called around for some interview advice to calm my nerves and then got stuck into my preparation in earnest. I hit the sack at 2.30am after a little 'God I've done all I can'; I just couldn't physically do anymore. My interview was for 10am and an hour-and-a-half away from where I live. This meant that, allowing for major calamities and time to settle my nerves, I needed to be out at 8am. Crap. And I was seriously lacking two nights worth of sleep. <strong>Double crap</strong>.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I woke up agitated and slightly nauseous. Oh and by the way <strong>my BB was in for repairs</strong>, so I didn't have the comfort of my phone to soothe me on my journey or to give me reminders to wake up, which was probably why I was so agitated when I woke up. At 7. <strong><em>After four-and-a-half hours sleep</em></strong>. Look I'm no <b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15747229111296889760">Sankofa</a></i></b>, I'm just not built for this. <em>Anyhoo</em>...I got there in good time. Prepared my answers and tried to will my palms to stop flowing rivers <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(it's so disgusting! I wish we still lived in an era when women wore gloves...)</span>. A nice lady takes me through to prepare for a presentation, 45 minutes prep for a 5 minute presentation. <strong>Crap, I didn't know about this</strong>. Nobody mentioned any presentation. I don't mind doing presentations but at least some forewarning! Crap, <span style="font-size:12pt;"><em>crap</em></span>, <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><em>crap</em></strong></span>, <span style="font-size:16pt;"><strong><em>OH CRAP</em></strong></span>!<br /></p><p>Ok, cool. Smile, shake hands, thank the nice lady. Crack a joke, make her smile. Now down to business. For the first 15 minutes I couldn't even understand the document I was reading. Calm down, start again. <strong><em>BREATHE</em></strong>. Ok, now I get it. No time to make use of the flip board. Just do it.<br /></p><p>So I fumbled through the presentation. Smiled brightly where necessary. Answered all my questions. Didn't repeat examples, <strong><em>always</em></strong> used examples. <em>Smiled some more</em>. Looked all three panel members in the eye as I went along. Looked thoughtful. Clarified if I thought I sounded unclear. Didn't ramble <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(Yay for me! Because this is a particular habit of mine)</span>. Two small sips of water. Didn't fidget. Asked intelligent questions at the end. Was told that they would be in touch tomorrow. <strong>Smiled like a frigging simpleton</strong>. Shook hands firmly at the end <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(despite my sweaty hands *shudder*)</span>. Left the building. Pheeew!<br /></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;">Once I left I was nearly in tears. I just slumped at the bus stop for 20mins or so then made my way home. I felt horrible, exhausted and close to tears. I just kept thinking I hope my phone has arrived home by now, the only silver lining I could perceive. I got home to be greeted by my phone </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(yay!)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> and the anxious mother, <em>oh joy</em>. I muttered something unintelligible, skulked upstairs and crawled into bed. Fully clothed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(minus the shoes)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;">. Had a good handful of texts and calls to see how it went. Ignored them nicely.</span><br /><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong><em>GO AWAY</em></strong></span><span style="font-size:12pt;">.</span><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span></p><p>After sleep and food <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(up until this point I'd eaten nothing)</span> I tried to gain some perspective. I could think of no one thing that should warrant my misery. I composed myself and prayed:<br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size:28pt;">"</span><span style="font-size:20pt;">Lord, if it is for me the let it be mine. If not then, I trust you.</span><span style="font-size:28pt;">"</span><br /></p><p>I was a bit more upbeat after that. Misery does not become me. I shrugged it off and got on with life.<br /></p><p>The following morning my brand new BB <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!)</span> woke me up with a private number call, in my best <em>I'm-wide-awake-no-of-course-you-didn't-just-wake-me-up</em> voice—I answered. The nice guy on the other end said he had just called to let me know that <strong>I had been selected for the role</strong> I went up for. Oh. That's nice. Pause. So, ummmmm, Nsoromma, would you <strong><em>like</em></strong> the job? Pause. Oh. <em>Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh</em>, <strong><em>yes</em></strong>! Needless to say, the rest of the convo was a blur. The rest of the day was a blur. Thank you God. The following day was my last day at the old job. Thank you, <strong><em>GOD</em></strong>! <span style="font-size:16pt;"><strong>HELLO, ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME NSOROMMA, THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!</strong></span> Called the fam, friends, Pastor and well wishers. This is my testimony. I said it was my moment, I believed it and it was.<br /></p><p>THANK YOU GOD,<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Love always,</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCic6Lq0i40VtBwbYFO2iadL-_o2RWPl5JO71yYVI5tjNt0SQVIJCGoPyua2KEfOjLDampEH9TUqCcrw3puq8mbnW1DLI08gZ8Xc_LOUqdBWxQ-EksolVohSeWngGN45ik8zCdNV3rRE/s1600/Nsoromma.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCic6Lq0i40VtBwbYFO2iadL-_o2RWPl5JO71yYVI5tjNt0SQVIJCGoPyua2KEfOjLDampEH9TUqCcrw3puq8mbnW1DLI08gZ8Xc_LOUqdBWxQ-EksolVohSeWngGN45ik8zCdNV3rRE/s400/Nsoromma.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484276943129633314" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 62px; " /></a></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">N.B. Here's the song I pilfered (and adapted) the title from...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_fnQcN6SkI">Mary J. Blige: Testimony</a></div><p>(first published on <i><a href="http://www.baringtestament.blogspot.com/">Baring Testament</a></i>)</p></span>Nsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966828029284505556.post-41164451000759408092010-06-13T00:57:00.004+01:002010-06-13T01:57:18.937+01:00beautiful...I just want you to know....Hey there everybody, I know it has been a long time since I have written anything BUT HEY I'm here now eh?<div><br /></div><div>I just want to pay homage to a certain black <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Fr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">en</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">ch </span>actress and in doing so give some props to some other beautiful and talented black ladies.</div><div>The actress' name is Aissa Maiga, she hails originally from Senegal and has mixed African parentage (Malian, Senegalese and Gambian) I have seen her in French television and a few films before and after watching a recent film with her in it '<i>Ensemble c'est trop'</i> I just can't get over how beautiful I find her. This is the backdrop to my appreciation of this lady, I have just returned form a short holiday in a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Caribbean</span> country and there were SO many pretty girls, they all had long hair that curled, waved and flowed, or greeny blue eyes or cocoa butter/ tinned-milk-tea skin, in short they were just the perfect <i>ti chabins </i>(creole for mixed race looking girls with light coloured skin) and the whole time I just found it amazing that these were fully black women. They hadn't done much to themselves but the usual Caribbean mixtures inherited from slavery and colonialism just presented themselves as various shades of beautiful. WoW! From the young girls to the old women they were the epitome of what many other black girls would spend hours in the salon/gym/Yinka Bodyline trying to achieve and they just <i>have </i>IT, naturally! So, anyway this all left me feeling very <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">short</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"><b>dark </b></span>and hairy (I am currently growing out my eyebrows) -and it doesn't help that my son (being light and quite frankly a bit coolie) fits in very nicely with the general look of the island, and resembled about 50 other women more than myself.</div><div>So when I got onto the plane and the little one finally fell asleep, I decided by chance to watch a French film, and there she was, dark, hairy (maybe even short, I can't really tell) but BE-YOOT-I-FUL, and although I don't look anything like her it was just very good to have confirmation that dark is lovely (all shades) so YaY to:</div><div><br /></div><div> all u creole <i>boté</i> (beauties) </div><div><img src="http://www.assemblee-martinique.com/joomla/images/stories/news/miss-martinique-2008.JPG" /></div><div><br /></div><div>and to Aissa Maiga,</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI4OTkyMjAwOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzIxNzI3MQ@@._V1._SX271_SY400_.jpg" /></div><div> Rama Yade, </div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://varlyproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/biwqn_rama_yade1.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Alek Wek, </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/thefrockreport/files/2009/06/alek-wek-ghghs1.jpg" /></div><div>Lanisha Cole (the dark girl in Pharrell's 'Frontin' Video) </div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://www.iceposter.com/thumbs/G216350_b.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>and to my main girls Sankofa, Nsoromma, Afrocentric and,<i> bien sur</i> ... Me!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img src="data:image/jpg;base64,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" /> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDQiHDyMGYxMM6eMt2V4L32pVPdwdlqV6t3rGGdTypmvMwQuZLpfjlC_FHMh0ghKBO-Xx6li2dYyAWPruyshjQUljgXD6kJEh9N-5V3RsM482VpOrAmrkM0sRpv5n_CohaxfuFnFJQ3E/s220/Nsoromma.gif" /> <img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:s6VyXubcDaUrgM:http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/images/thumb/8/87/Afrocentric_Album_Cover_HPM.jpg/300px-Afrocentric_Album_Cover_HPM.jpg" alt="See full size image" /> <img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:O_0LZmc62wqNqM:http://api.ning.com/files/ilmpSMu*dB2meep3l4E6Gyo9Vl-MFiLeX4vVE8eizfePjShDgLcAmD-nkynej**UR3FymvDwfm0YvQ-Vjg*aniXsdKxcdSdQ/CroppedBigHairChicmain_Full2.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MuVsngBBDgQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MuVsngBBDgQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Friday's Afrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01785437973554150602noreply@blogger.com9