Music
At the Elder’s Corner
the glories of art and music in Nigeria before independence, in a new documentary
King in the North
Like many others, when posting pictures of myself and friends on social media, I find myself captioning them #YaranNorthSide.
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I’d lost count, but I think we were beginning the fourth time through “Minuet No. 2″
We’d hear the piece approximately 10 times before we got to school.
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I wrote on a napkin, “as the class war intensifies, the X-mas music will get louder”
I was reading about the settler frontier and genocide of indigenous people while the loudspeaker blasted “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.”
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It was my sorest tattoo yet
But Simi’s Simisola was good for the pain.
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If you can hack it here busking, you should feel a distinct sense of pride and humility
I sat there in just shorts, enjoying my coffee, the joint and the morning Andalusían sun.
