I feel the caption I have used is in order? Have a great weekend one and all.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
It is a tough call between Anenih the BiafraNigerian policeman who "settles" the NASS when a dubious bill is to be passed, and Nzeribe who has worked very hard to ensure Imo never got going as far as leadership goes since the time of Mbakwe.
Any of those two could be described as BAD!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
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I amn not trying to put down Agbani's achievement but I think one should question the standards of beauty by which she was adjudged the most beautiful girl in Nigeria and then Miss World. It seems to me, just like the Nobel prize for literature, that once again, we are witnessing Western aesthetic standards imposed on us as a 'universal value'. In the Western mindset,the standard of female beauty is a tall, skinny woman with an absolute minimum of curves and flesh i.e. a woman whose body almost approximates that of the handsome teenage boy whom the ancient Greeks believed to be the ultimate exemplar of human beauty.
As far as I know and have read of African cultures across the continent, the African ideal of female beauty is the full-bodied or buxom woman i.e. a woman with well rounded bosom, bottom and hips.
Hence the institution of the 'fattening house' in Southeastern Nigeria and parts of Central Africa. Western cultural influence has driven us to adopt the Western norm of female beauty. This norm of the skinny woman is partly the creation of the fashion industry which is dominated by gay people in the West. They promote women who look like their ideal male lover, the handsome teenage boy as the norm of female beauty. I would like to see a woman with obvious breasts and bottom win Miss World or appear on the cover of women's magazines before I am convinced that this is not yet another attempt to impose gay values on non-Western people.
P.S. Has anyone read "Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities" [New York, Palgrave, 1998] by Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe? These are a pair of gay Zimbabwean anthropologists who are trying to establish that homosexuality existed in pre-colonial Africa in order to counter Mugabe's campaign against gays in Zimbabwe. In pages 255-66 of their book, they attempt to suggest that there may have been a lesbian element to woman-woman marriages in pre-colonial Africa including among the Igbo. I am sure some may recall that old Igbo tradition by which an elderly, barren woman could 'marry' a wife and have children through the agency of her male relations - well our bright oyibo gay anthropologists now want us to believe that our great-grandmothers in ala'Igbo were secretly indulging in lesbianism.
PPS Before anyone asks me why I am reading this stuff on homosexuality, let me quickly clarify that it is required reading for my exams. I am trying to justify why most African countries have refused to decriminalize homosexuality and my professor asked me to read the book and counter the arguments made therein.I also wish to assure my good people of Biafra that I love my Biafran sisters too much to ever contemplate joining the gang of asshole bandits.
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