I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure because I am a naturally introverted person and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk but I spend a lot of my days not talking especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland spreading the gospel.
When the British came to Ibo land for instance at the beginning of the 20th...
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the...
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language...
A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory...
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that...
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always...
In fact I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable...
I tell my students it's not difficult to identify with somebody like...
Our government is the potent the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it...
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am but a teacher has to be flexible. You...
I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher I do...
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the...
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the...
My mother a teacher encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to...
At the age of 15 a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career...