Intermingled Smoke | Featured Artiste: Mofe
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Tolu Ogunlesi
I can hardly believe that 2012 is just around the corner! But it's true. How was your Christmas? Boxing Day nko? Wonderful, I hope. I want to say a special thank you to all those who took time to send me Christmas wishes. Many, Many thanks! E se gan-an!
The inspiration for today's post (well, just the title sha) came from an article I read a few months ago written by Tolu Ogunlesi. Specifically, this part caught my attention:
The mental picture that that sentence evokes has stayed with me since I read the article and it stirred something else in my heart that I had not really explored extensively before, i.e. what would be the yardstick to measure progress in Nigeria's educational system. I still don't have an answer to that question, but I believe I am making progress sha. For now, what I have come up with is this: Until people like Iya Seun, mentioned in Tolu Ogunlesi's article, can get good quality education for their children without paying an arm and a leg, we have not yet made progress. (As an aside, I wonder how this statement will change by December 2012 ... I will just have to wait and see to evaluate that, won't I?!) If there is anyone who needs free education (or the next best thing to free education, which I believe is highly subsidized education), it would be this woman's children.
The inspiration for today's post (well, just the title sha) came from an article I read a few months ago written by Tolu Ogunlesi. Specifically, this part caught my attention:
I imagine that the smoke from her “kitchen” mingles happily with that emerging from the luxurious kitchens of the nearby 5-star Eko Hotels – evidence perhaps of the classlessness that distinguishes smoke from the human existence.
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| [Picture from HERE] |