During my BSc studies, I was appointed to lead an embattled music group. Weeks after taking up the position, the group couldn’t function. We were just about 3 people left in the group. I play the keyboard, and I could give the drum sounds from the keyboard. I could sing …
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There’s this discussion that happens in the ranks of progressive African youths. It’s about why African nations appear to be behind in everything. Western nations have everything working for them while African nations have almost nothing working. In Europe, a small town can be the world’s largest manufacturer of a …
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When I was in primary school, I read about 2 men who went to a concert. There were all kinds of musical instruments that fascinated them and they began identifying and discussing them. The more knowledgeable man pointed out the second fiddle and explained that this instrument plays more of …
Read More »The Opposite of ‘Right’
I once heard a guy pass a mischievous expression about his boss: “My boss is always right; he can never be wrong. Even when he is not right, he could only be left.” There, he presented two opposites of ‘right’. There is however a third. It is supposed to be a feature …
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I found it funny that a “Ukranian” would write a book in English and title it in Yoruba: Olorun wa! His translation of the title was unconventional (it would have read: There is God); but it was philosophical, reading The Roads of Life. Though Sunday Adelaja was born in Yorubaland …
Read More »Mentaur
Mentoring refers to the relationship by which one person is helped up by a more competent person. That’s my definition! Novel! Odysseus left his son Telemachus in the care of Mentor in Greek Mythology, in simple terms, to make a man of the lad! Many times we struggle to make of ourselves …
Read More »A trip to D.R.C.
I heard a British Pastor narrate how his recent missionary trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo went. His team funded the first complete translation of the bible to the local language of the people of Cabinda. Noble course! However, his experience on the trip . . .em…let’s see what …
Read More »Could it bring growth?
A friend’s facebook post triggered my thoughts. She said,” sometimes I wonder why Elijah’s brook had to dry up in the course of a famine when it was God that ordered him to go to the brook” She concluded, “the brook had to dry up so his status …
Read More »Untitled Leadership
Untitled Leadership Leadership has many perks and benefits especially when it has the authority of a Position/Office. For an untitled Leader, the call is usually divine, the passion lasting, and the challenges are unique. ..and enormous! 1) untitled Leadership is self-sponsored. In Lagos Nigeria, there is a …
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