“Nigeria at 50, Day 13 – Enkay’s www.enkays-space.blogspot.com My earliest memories of belonging to any place was as a little child in my grandfathers compound. In those days, the number plates of cars registered in Lagos started with LA and haven seen my grandfathers cars with that number, I simply concluded that he owned most [...]
Archive > October 2010
Tortoise and the birds
I took my daughter to a show by Ajapa on Saturday. Ajapa or Ijapa is simply tortoise in Yoruba and this stage play (dramatised beautifully) was the famous tortoise tale ‘How the tortoise broke its shell’! The birds were invited to a feast in heaven and haven obtained that information by deceptive means, the tortoise [...]