Dear Reader,
Omo Alagbede asked me to inform you that he will be back soon... he is currently immersed in many things... one of which is the Chimamanda Adichie/Binyavanga Wainaina Writing Workshop in Lagos, where he is having the time of his life...
More details later...
October 13 last year was a Friday the 13th...
Now it has come again...
Here's from Omo Alagbede's Archives - the post I put up that Friday 13th last October:
Welcome, listeners, to this special FRIDAY THE 13TH edition of your favorite blog-dio programme, TALKING BULL! Before we go on, let's hear a message from our sponsors, TONGUECORP, makers of false teeth, toothbrushes, ventriloquimeters and truth detectors.
[Audio]
Welcome back, it's me, your popular and regular host, B. Shit. Today is Friday the 13th! Really, I shouldn't have agreed to host your favorite show today, due to the numinous implications of this day, but the truth is that an empty pocket is far worse bad luck than any numinous numeral! (In case you didn't know, I am paid per show!) Sorry for the digression. Back to our big story! Let's hear what our inhouse expert, and author of the Online Times bestselling compendium, Everything Under The Sun, Prof. Wikipedia*, has to say. Over to you, Prof!
Thank you, B... Good day viewers and fans of this absolutely fantabulous Friday show on Blogistan's No 1 Radio Station, WWBS. I'm glad to be here, I tell you! Did you know that a Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece and Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.
Paraska-what?[chuckles]
Paraskavedekatriaphobia - the scientific term for The Fear of Friday the 13th! It's a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, which is a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.
Oh dear, what a mouthful! Why the hell don't they just leave it at "The Fear of Friday the 13th?
Beats me too, B... [chuckles again]...wait for this, do you know what the scientific term for the fear of long words is?
Longrammarphobia? [chuckles proudly]
[laughter] No.... Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio... damn short word, in my opinion
[Both laugh for five minutes]
[Prof continues] ... Back to what we were saying...In the Spanish-speaking world, it is Tuesday the 13th (as well as Tuesdays in general) that brings bad luck; a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques, simply meaning: On Tuesday, neither get married nor start a journey.
Different strokes for different folks, I'd say...
Precisely... a reflection of the fetishistic inclinations of Homo Sapienic species... Did you know that in Formula 1, there is no car with the number 13. The number has been removed, after 2 drivers were killed in crashes — both driving cars numbered 13.
Don't cars without the number 13 regularly crash as well...?
Good question! They do! ... And did you know, B, that infamous serial killers Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Theodore Bundy all have 13 letters in their names...
Jeez! Thank Goodness "B. Shit" is only... hol'on a sec... yeah... only five letters [deafening sigh of relief]... if it had been thirteen letters I'd have ripped you apart with my bare hands right here in the studio right now... ha ha ha... well... thank you loads Prof... once again, we have benefited from your immense wealth of wisdom. We hope you'll join us again next week to impart to us out of your bottomless well of bull...
Sure, B, my pleasure to be on Talking Bull anytime
Uh, Prof, before you go, any last words for our listeners?
Yeah, just remembered this... it'd interest them to hear that Fidel Castro and Wole Soyinka were both born on "Friday the 13th", Fidel on Friday, Aug 13, 1926, and Soyinka on July 13, 1934... and wait for this, Tupac Shakur died on Friday the 13th - September 13, 1996...
[Sudden Power Failure in the studio, the sound of static fills the airwaves...]
*All facts courtesy of Wikipedia
Application received Wednesday June 27 2007 (posted in my COMMENTS page):
In response to vacancy, here
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The Employer
Niger Delta Militant Group
South South Nigeria
West Africa,
Africa,
Earth,
Milky Way,
World
Dear Sir,
Expression of Interest for the post of Area Head, Kidnapping
I wish to be considered for the above post because I believe I have the requisite training, experience and innate ability required for the job.
For the past 15 years, I have been an active member in various organisations whose main thrust is militant agitation. These organisations include �Struggle for the liberation southern kaduna sons�; where I was assistant head of the guard room, Movement for the electrification of the Ishan Community; where I was the coordinator of the militant mothers wing, and Zango Kataf Community Progressive Force where I was in charge of recruitment for young soldiers just to mention a few.
I am presently on active duty as the assistant commandant at the kafanchan School of Basic Combat Training in Militancy and other Related Endeavours. My duties include drafting willing and unwilling members to the academy between the ages of 4 and 90, physical training and strategic military intelligence to wrest power from the hands of the councillor of felele ward Mr Gabe Ohimoja and hand over to our commander Major Izaiah Godlove.
I am fluent in Hausa and Ijaw. And also fluent in Italian; after all, I know words like pasta in Italian and Berger in German.
I have successfully been able to distinguish between Oyinbo and albino and as a result was able to save the BCPF some funds when our assistant area office kidnapper wanted to kidnap Mr Oyibo Uwaezuoke, thinking he was a British National. Due to my impressive credentials in this area I have also been able to comprehend that Mr Ben Bruce is a juxtaposition of Scottish blood and albinism and that Mr Eddie Iroh of FRCN fame is an albino who had the foresight to make money early in order to purchase some packaged melanin to improve his lot.
Swimming is one of my greatest strengths and I hold the potiskum record for underwater water diving for holding my breath in the shower for over 30 seconds.
I am able to recognise fake naira notes as I have undergone the Fake Naira Detection Course at the Afghanistan School of Weaponry and Military Strategy.
I have a strong ability never to forget a face which enabled me to recognise one Mr Elijah Efepariola when he tried to infiltrate our training camp when I was at the Abraka School of Bomb Manufacture and Explosive Fabrication; recognising the senators and ministers will be a work in a military park for me.
All the above combined with my innate skill in weapon acquisition, bomb detection and detonation, otumokpo recognition and neutralisation and hostage taking in extreme weather conditions, make me the best person for the job.
Please find attached, photos of my exploits in Hostage taking and kidnapping.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Celestina Afakiriya
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Abeokuta, by Omo Alagbede, 2005 (c)
Update: Picture taken from Olumo Rock. In the distance - if you look hard enough) you can see the River Ogun...
Nigeria has shut itself down again. The battle that used to be between OBJ and OSH (Oshiomole) has now become a Umar vs Omar rumble(thanks to Tayo Odukoya for this appellation). Past two days I have been under house arrest, like many other citizens of this country. The negotiation meetings keep stretching into midnight in Abuja, just as the fuel queues and the frustrations stretch into the dark recesses of our individual and collective patience.
Meanwhile, Babasanjo is back in Ota, feeding his chickens and probably chuckling at his capacity to engineer mischief for a hundred and forty million "animals called men" - or is it "animals called masses". He poured sand into the VAT garri and attached a kite to the price of petrol; and like a naughty schoolboy ran off the playground to watch from a hideout the confusion he had invented.
How I wish Fela were alive to sing about these latest happenings...
Of course, if OBJ were still in power, you think there'd be all these midnight meetings between Govt and Labour... I trust my OBJ. He'd simply have conjured up another G-something meeting in Turkmenistan, hopped onto his JET and disappeared. When labour don strike tire, na dem go use dem mouth call the ting off! By then, of course, Baba would have departed Turkmenistan, and entered Kathmandu, in search of chicken farmers to invite for "foreign investment" in Ota, sorry, Nigeria... enroute the North Pole to visit the Association of Nigerian-born eskimos and the entire Nigerian community there...
Now, poor Yar'Adua is left fighting another man's battle...
I have heard people say that OBJ decided to punish the country for refusing him a third term... it might be true, those who know the man say he is an 80-year-old, oops... sorry, 70-year-old bundle of vindictiveness...
And I have heard too that the Supreme court verdict concerning Anambra state was payback time by the Judges for the 8-year rascality of Baba... it was their way of hitting him by hitting his adopted son, Andy Uba(sanjo), the man who reportedly
1) doesn't have the doctorate he is claiming
2) used the Nigerian AirForce 1 to smuggle hundreds of thousands of dollars,
3) "appointed" Maurice Iwuruwuru as INEC Chairman.
Check these sites out:
Uba 1
Uba 2
Now Uba is gone, plus all the money he spent to get elected. I wonder if this scenario would have played out had Baba still been in power... methinks OBJ would simply have declared a state of emergency in Anambra state and appointed Andy Uba as sole admin-is-traitor, or better still, declared a state of emergency in the Supreme Court and declared Justice Lamidi Adedibu as the Sole Administrator of the Supreme Court of Nigeria...
But in the meantime, I hear that the next "the-owner" of the largest "Umbrella" in Africa, may be Chief, uhm, uhm, abeg read the full story here HERE... no be for my mouth you go hear am...
Before the marriage:
He: Yes. At last! It was so hard to wait.
She: Do you want me to leave?
He: NO! Don't even think about it.
She: Do you love me?
He: Of course!
She: Have you ever cheated on me?
He: NO! Why are you even asking?
She: Will you kiss me?
He: Yes!
She: Will you hit me?
He: No way! I'm not such kind of person!
She: Can I trust you?
He: Yes.
She: Dear!!
Now, after the marriage - you can read it from the bottom upwards!!
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Congratulations to Chimamanda on her winning the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction(http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/) , which she narrowly missed (after making the shortlist) in 2005...
...A fitting prize-name for the author of a purple hibiscus and a yellow half-sun...
This "half of a yellow sun" is in reality one full, brilliant, blinding sun of a book!
Way to go, Sister!
A quick one on what Omo Alagbede has been up to lately....
My short story, Husbands-Abroad Anonymous appears in what has turned out to be the greatest of all the great Farafina Magazine (http://www.farafinamagazine.com/) issues that have appeared thus far... Toni Kan's WOMEN issue (Issue 10). An all-women issue, save for 3 male "lesbians" (as TK termed us in his editorial): TK, Omo Alagbede, and my big bros Vic Ehi with his hilarious "owambe" photography...
Funmi Iyanda (Nigeria's Oprah, she is called) is there with a humorous, subversive "feminist" piece (memoir), My Sis Chika Unigwe is there with a short story; Ijeoma Iromantu is there with her poems (her first appearance in print, and the first of what I know will be many more), Marie Fatayi-Williams is there with an excerpt from her book FOR LOVE OF ANTHONY in memory of her son Anthony, who was killed in the July 7, 2005 London bomb blasts, Onyinye Egenti (I remember her from secondary school, The International School, Ibadan - she was my senior; and her bro Afam was my classmate); Kaine Agary, editor of TAKAII and author of the wave-making Niger-delta novel, Yellow-Yellow; amongst a handful of others.
Molara Wood (Wordsbody) has a review of the issue here: http://wordsbody.blogspot.com/2007/06/farafinas-woman-issue.html
3 of my pieces appear in the newest glossy magazine in town, MADE magazine (http://www.mademags.com). It's True Love + Genevieve + GQ for AFRICAN MEN. The launch was on Sunday June 3 at the News Caffe, The Palms Shopping Mall, Lekki Lagos. Cool affair: the Storm crew (Sasha, Ikechukwu et al) led by the boss himself, Obi Asika; Olisa Adibua (compere), Uzoma Dozie, Tunde Folawiyo, and a host of other celebrities whom the celebrity-ignorant Omo Alagbede had no one to point out and identify to him.
Left the place feeling slightly floaty, yet I had only 2 glasses of wine (one white, one red) and a chapman... must have been the exhilaration of seeing my work in such a finely-wrought magazine that catalysed the fastforwarded fermentation of the wines...
And,
a few weeks back I was on Metro FM Lagos (interview)... (thanks FT for the opportunity!)
One or two poems have appeared here and there... Sentinel poetry June 2007, The Guardian Lagos, and a number forthcoming in the coming weeks...
Last but not the least, this poor neck is breaking under the weight of writing assignments and deadlines... don't forget that I work at an 8 - 5, so I'm not your sit-at-a-mahogany-desk-in-a-heavenly-resort-and-dreamily-fill-reams-of-computer-screen-with-award-winning-critic-wowing-work kinda writer...
Sent this piece in as part of my application for a consulting job with a Nigerian consulting firm in April 2005 (hadn't even started my NYSC then...) We were asked to send in our CVs, along with a one-page essay on "to think is to differ".
I never heard from them, he he he...
Whad'ya think about it? Tries to sound over-learned?
TO THINK IS TO DIFFER
(c) Omo Alagbede, 2005
What progress individuals could make, and what progress the world would make, if thinking were given proper consideration!
- Thomas Edison
To think is to differ.
The above equates Thinking and Thought with Difference, with Change, with a shift of Paradigm. Probably the biggest distinguishing factor between man and animal is the ability to think, to ponder, to take a thing/concept/idea and roll it around on the floor of a mental Gymnasium and come up with new perspectives and alternatives. That is probably why Thinking doesn’t show up in the List of Functions of All Living Things – MR. NIGER – Movement, Respiration, Nutrition, Growth, Excretion etc.
Thinking is the sole preserve of the Homo Sapiens.
To think is to toss around, to examine, to question, to challenge, to view from a succession of differing viewpoints all in the quest to see a fuller picture. To think is to refuse to accept at face value, to be skeptical of the status quo. Thomas Edison, the American inventor, links progress to thinking. In his words “By developing [our] thinking powers [we] expand the capacity of [our] brain and attain new abilities.” He considered Thinking to be the true labor and not Sweating. He had the following quotation by Sir Joshua Reynolds hung in every room of his laboratory:
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
What more proof of the indispensability of Thinking to Progress can we find than in the immense successes of Edison in the area of Creative Prowess?
To think is to differ. When we think, and allow our brains to function uninhibited, we are far more likely than a majority of the population to discover what has not been discovered; what is different. It has been said that the true definition of insanity is “doing the same thing and expecting different results.” Thinking helps us to avoid doing the “same thing”. We are more likely to find proof of why we should move in a different direction than the majority of the population – who are satisfied with living according to “cut-and-dried” traditions and norms and would prefer to exist and function through life in “auto-pilot, don’t-raise-dust” mood.
Virtually every great person and entity has, throughout history, had to plough on in a direction different from the norm, and endure mockery and opposition, in order to achieve what they achieved. The only way to discover this “different direction” has been – and still remains – to Think, to throw every possible option open to questioning and challenge, and consider even the seemingly “crazy” idea.
To think is to differ. To think is to Think. There’s no alternative.
The Night God Hung Our New President
The night God hung up
Our new President, poisoned umbrellas
And long knives were the new stars.
The werewolves showed up pot-
Bellied with long dead promises;
And shrouds swaddled our age-
Less questions, now eight years older.
Beneath tents of green & white smog
Bats in agbada played Jazz on saxo-
Phones that bled petro-naira
From knife-wounds in the neck.
The scorpion and the tortoise took their place
In the eagle square ball,
So that from that moment,
Another retromingent night began to drip
Black dew through its fallen zipper.
Dear God, for my sake, smile. Please.
(c) Buki Omo-Alagbede, May 2007
Our client, a Niger Delta Militant Group with branches in strategic locations throughout all the six South-South states of Nigeria is seeking to expand its operations to Abuja, the Federal Capital territory. This expansion has brought about vacancies for qualified and experienced young officers. The positions are:
Area Head, Kidnapping:
The successful applicant who will report to the Executive Council, and the Executive Director, Abuja, is expected to possess the following competencies:
1) Minimum of 10 years experience in militant agitation. (Membership of Al-qaeda, Hamas or other similar organisation will be an added advantage)
2) Fluent knowledge of Hausa, Ijaw, English, Italian and German
3) Expert ability to distinguish between Oyinbos and Albinos
4) Ability to swim in deep waters
5) Ability to recognise fake/marked naira notes by sight
6) Ability to easily recognise all Senators and Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Evidence of previous successful kidnap of BIG MEN must be provided (pictures preferable)
Photographer:
1) Minimum of 5 years experience taking photos in war zones. (Domestic fights do not qualify as war zones for these purposes)
2) Proficiency in the use of explosives as camera lighting.
3) Knowledge of the different skin tones of expatriates, as an aid to taking high-quality pictures, is a must.
4) Proficiency in the use of Adobe Photoshop, and Internet photo uploading software is a must.
Please include a portfolio of previous photo-samples (must contain kidnapped persons OR be taken in war-zones OR be nightshots in blackspots like Oshodi, 3rd Mainland bridge, Apongbon, etc)
Militant Trainee:
1) Candidates must be between the ages of 13 and 50, be at least 4m tall, and may be male or female.
2) Minimum of Nursery School/Kindergarten certificate.
3) Jobless university graduates, and serving policemen will be given special consideration.
4) Possession of jungle boots and face mask is a must.
5) Preference will be given to persons with knowledge of foreign European languages, and persons with the ability to swim.
Renumeration:
Very attractive, competitive, and comparable with industry standards (payments in foreign currencies).
Official guns, boats and grenades will be provided.
Excellent training, involving offshore secondment (Iraq, Afghanistan etc) from time to time
Regular appearance on CNN, Alaaroye, Time Magazine, The Economist and other International magazines.
Excellent networking opportunities with Nigerian politicians, oil magnates, and foreign businessmen.
Interested applicants should forward their applications and detailed curriculum militae within two weeks to:
militant_recruitment@OsamaConsulting.com
This piece is about two years old, forgive the rambling and the ranting, Omo-Alagbede Live went onto the streets to talk to "ordinary" Nigerians... sorry, you'll have to insert the stones of Full-Stop yourself into these raging streams of consciousness...
My nanotale Sweet Mother was on Tuesday May 1, 2007 announced as one of the twenty-five winners of the Guardian(UK)/Ziji Publishing/Bebo Nanotales Competition, and will be published in an anthology of nanofiction by Ziji in 2008.
Right now I'm working on polishing/editing the story, aiming to tweak Sweet Mother's voice slightly - to be more faithful to her age and to reflect her Nigerian sensibilities better, while still keeping her quirkiness intact.
"Writing" is simply an abbreviation of "Rewriting".
My short story SWEET MOTHER has recently been shortlisted for the Guardian Books(UK) / Ziji Publishing Short Story (Nanotales) Competition. As part of the final selection process, the finalists' stories have been posted on the nanotales website, and a voting system has been introduced.
* A nanotale is a story of less than a thousand words
I'd like to have as many votes as possible for my story, and would like you to please take some time to read it and see if it's worthy of your vote.
The entire shortlist is here
From yahoo news:
Intern Amina
AY(comedian and party host), Toni Kan of Bank PHB and Charles O'Tudor, the Boardroom BOSS
Intern Dami
Intern Kola
The winner, (Afolabi) a proud Dad, and the prize 
All hail the champ!
The Keys of Success
The Nissan Tiida Grand Prize (there was 3 million bucks as well!)
The Boss and Toni kan
# Exclusive Pictures from the Bank PHB Intern Reality TV Show 1 After-Party (March 2007)
# Feasting on Words: Is Omo-Alagbede CareerThreateningly-Wrong About Oprah?
# From the Writing Archives: Is Omo-Alagbede Stranded on a Dogonyaro Tree of Words? Problems, Pain, Panacea...
