United States of Africa...?

I have never met the new president of Nigeria...Umar Yaradua, but I happen to know two of his nieces from the late Musa Yaradua. They were good girls pretty liberal Muslims yet I didn't know what to expect from this newbie who cut his teeth in many powerful positions including being a two time governor of Katsina state being one of the 6 governors who was never mentioned as being a thief, simply for that feat I commend him.

PDP must have known what they were doing when they nominated him as their presidential candidate and even though he won through questionable means, I doubt the Nigerian masses will not be pleased with his term however long or short it may be.

So far since his term began, there has been a strike by those silly members of the labour union, protesting the fuel price increase from N65 to N75 , after they embarked on their five day strike that crippled the nation El president negotiated with them till the present price level N70 (I don't know how many of these labour union members has lived in the UK or the USA, fuel prices are ridiculous, no one complains they just buy more fuel efficient cars ).

Recently there was the African Union assembly i think during this past weekend, where some funny heads of state led by Col Gaddafi decided they wanted to form a United States of Africa.
As erroneous as that sounds I don't think they were in the right frame of mind when they cooked up that notion. Have they been country to country to note the disparities between peoples cultures, modes of life, standards of living etc? I have seen first hand what amalgamating over a 100 different tribes can do to the stability of a nation and then you want to bring in people who kill their siblings into the same fold as people who have been displaced by these same folk? I say no.
El president made this speech and from now I will not see him as a hausaman with all the fitting stereotypes but now i know he is a president and he has done right by me for ignoring Gaddafi's ramblings:

“our perspective is mediated by the critical need at this point in our continent’s developmental process, for the nations of Africa to focus more on the strengthening and consolidation of internal governance and growth structures, and on more robust regional integration.
“Focus on inter-regional collaboration is equally critical especially considering that all the five regions of Africa face essentially the same challenges of poor infrastructure, inadequate energy, endemic poverty, and the twin bane of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
“Conversely, these issues, along with the challenges of conflict, disease and poverty, drive the imperative for us to present a united and common front in the global arena. There is strength in the synergy that is only possible from functional unity.
“This brings me to another critical variable in this debate: the degree of our commitment to our continental body and the essence of our Africanness. To the extent that we continue to subscribe and owe more allegiance to extra-continental bodies to the neglect of the AU, our steps towards functional integration will remain faltering.”

It shocks me that during the entire time, no one spoke of the crisis that is Darfur, I know the former president Obasanjo rallied peace corps to help out the black Sudanese who were being butchered by the Arab Sudanese but the situation hasn't changed if African leaders can sanction these Sudanese people a lot of things there will change, how can they these African leaders championing a unified government, champion a cause when one of the key disasters facing Africa cannot even be smoothed out.
They didn't even speak about Zimbabwe and the nonsense Mugabe is turning that country into.
You cannot eat your cake and have it too. Deal with the present problems and maybe then we will condone a talk about unification which brings the question...who would have been the first leader of the United States of Africa, Col. Gaddafi...LOL I mean he calls himself the soldier for Africa, well he is a terrorist, we shouldn't allow terrorist to propose a unification because you know what that means, it means a Jihad. Personally I love Africa and I don't want to be displaced because some crazy fanatic that wont even allow democracy in his own country proposes a unification that threatens the well being of my family.

I am here in the USA studying to make my country great like the USA not for some madman to broker an idea and destroy everything I stand for...liberté,égalité , fraternité something Col Gaddafi and his yeomen do not know.
The road to recovery does not start until we can remove the leeches on our skin, when people like Gaddafi, Mugabe, and those wicked Sudanese Arabs are gone, then we can talk.
PS I don't support a United States of Africa, never will. Thank you Yaradua for stalling because the next time this topic is approached someone will get a piece of my mind.

post picnic

"did you drunk dial me last night? haha awesome!!!"
i have only lived three years of my awesome life in the US but why is it that drinking, getting drunk is somehow the norm.
my logic is that it is because of the stigma people place on drinking that influences these bad habits. I mean when you look at countries that have less stringent drinking laws the number of drink related accidents is relatively lower, the prevalence of alcoholism is relatively lower, drink related crime s also low.
which brings to mind the era of the prohibition, not only did gang related crime and smuggling increase, the consumption of alcohol also increased. flashback "the forbidden fruit"
i think there is something innate in us that attracts most humans to things that are considered taboos. I mean you watch tv and are bombarded by commercials of condoms, practising safe sex, in churches they drum abstinence into your head and what happens, a lot of girls who end up pregnant grew up in the church, does this mean that she didnt learn anything in the church, no i dont think so, i just think that whenever doing something is given a stigma of taboo, people practising it and not thinking of the repercussions increase.
i am anglican never in church have heard a sermon that smoking or drinking are sins, it usually is along the lines of tthey are bad for your health but when i go to pentecostal churches like the ones in the US they say smoking and drinking are sins....sreeeeech
rewind, where is that in the ten commandments?
im not a fan of smoking, simply because i dont find it attractive, and my grandfather had some sort of throat infection before he died, he pretty much croaked for a year and change before God eased his pain. so yes smoking is bad for your health but calling it a sin....omigosh
drinking on the other hand, i dont understand why it is a sin, Jesus turned water into wine for his mother...if it was a sin...dont you think his mom would have known after all it was her righteousness that made God choose her to bear his only begotten son.
why cant society stop telling us the hings we should so and shouldnt do, the thigs we should wear and not wear, the places we should go and not go? why cant we all just live by the golden rule do to others as you would have them do unto you.
for example (mind you i have nothing against fat people) those fat girls who dress up and have all their guts hanging...disgusting, humans should not be subjected to seeing that, which is why i dont show off my guts even though i am what society refers to as underweight...not only is it unattractive, it doesnt show any self respect in the ladies who dress that way....
i'm going to leave of here when i get back from my exam i'll do more writing.
cheers

little children

Hey Hey

today I attended a church picnic, and my goodness was it interesting.
first I was constantly watched so i would eat...apparently some people think I dont eat like a Nigerian aka i am too skinny to be nigerian...bleh
then i got to hang out with the little kids ie the ones in high school now, and dear dear it was some degrassi stuff going on.

apparently one guy called out a girl on her extensions...erroneous, guys should never ask girls if their hair is as long as...well the extensions she has on.
while that drama was going on...some other guy was trying to spit game to another girl..and my goodness did he cook up some interesting stories.

it amazes me that he's trying to ask miss thing to be hs gf because as i was told two weeks ago by the youth pastor's wife, there is an unspoken rule that the kids in the youth group arent allowed to date AT ALL!!!

so while this was going on, the stereotypical black baptist family began yelling at kids to begin to clear up..in this day and age, you cannot i repeat cannot yell at me to do something i dont want to do.
this is why there are little kids, they are meant to clean up after the older ones, not that i have a problem with cleaning up but if i have to do it ask nicely dont freaking yell and expect me to do anything.

which brings me to my point tonight:
Why are your stereotypical african americans rude. is it in their nature to never regard anyone with any respect?
I mean the way i was brought up was that respect begats respect. respect isnt a right, it is earned. So how can these people who dont have respect for themselves expect to be accorded any sort of respect.
Growing up i was always respectful to my younger ones, apparently here it is supposed to be the other way round, but when i compare the relationship with my siblings to the relationships of african american siblings, there is always a huge difference.
and this whole judgement thing how is a young man going to tell me in church that my skirt is too short (well it wasnt said to me but to a girl i know)...is it innate in african americans to always be in other people's business? mind you i am not racist, but today the african americans i interacted with pretty much characterized these stereotypes...but umm i have an exam to study for now...i will do best to study and with that i bid you adieu for the time being.