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Gad-Purse: January 2013
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Sunday, 20 January 2013. There is great danger, in all use of this language, of thinking that when we have rendered various English words into Japanese we have of necessity expressed the thoughts which the English words convey. Language may correspond to language, but the thoughts to which the language is the vehicle may be as distant as the poles.". Church Missionary Intelligencer, March, 1880. Quoted in. 1921 p. xxxiii. CMS (Nigeria) Bookshops Lagos.
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Gad-Purse: Gates and the Sultan
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Monday, 11 November 2013. Gates and the Sultan. Here is why this picture is significant. Of three polio-endemic countries (the other two, Afghanistan and Pakistan). There is no cure for polio. It can only be prevented. Islamic leaders in northern Nigeria have for many years decried polio vaccinations as unsafe: ‘ a secret US plan against Africa. 8217; and a ' ploy to infect young people with HIV. Decorated by the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader.
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Gad-Purse: May 2012
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Friday, 18 May 2012. I just read Diepiriye Kuku’s opinion on Outlook India. On his painful racist experiences in India. While there are fewer alternative synonyms to describe an introduction as ‘an African has come’ I am unsure of what to feel about his disgust at being starred at. But would I describe them as racist? I don’t think so. Are my views objective? Monday, 14 May 2012. I love the way my sound tells something about me. Thunder fire your mouth’. Only m...
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Gad-Purse: November 2013
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Monday, 11 November 2013. Gates and the Sultan. Here is why this picture is significant. Of three polio-endemic countries (the other two, Afghanistan and Pakistan). There is no cure for polio. It can only be prevented. Islamic leaders in northern Nigeria have for many years decried polio vaccinations as unsafe: ‘ a secret US plan against Africa. 8217; and a ' ploy to infect young people with HIV. Decorated by the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader.
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Gad-Purse: June 2012
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Friday, 22 June 2012. The Word Type of Joy. Crosswords in The Punch on Saturday; fantasised about having my name on print like Toni Kan and Abati. They were heroes. I soon wanted to share what I had found. Speech was too short, fleeting and depended on a traitorous tongue. I suffered from a slight stutter that showed up when I got excited, upset, chatty – really whenever it pleased. So, I wrote. Thursday, 7 June 2012. I didn’t get to J’s until rathe...
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Gad-Purse: June 2013
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Saturday, 29 June 2013. I blog when I have something to say or when I can’t rein in my shameless need to have ’my’ words placed on paper just the way I want them. In between, I read. Here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this year:. Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones. The Devil that Danced on the Water. And The Memory of Love. I learned of Sierra Leone and enjoyed Forna’s story telling. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. Is a pretty good random and. I thi...
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Gad-Purse: Pidgin English
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Monday, 28 October 2013. There is something exciting about Pidgin English and it isn't only street credibility. Sometimes you think it is because she gets you bargains at street shops or the leftover euphoric tap-tap of your feet from last night's Lágbájá and P-. Square. But you know it isn't those too. But she lets you in, sometimes. You catch glimpses of the pleasure your eyes and ears can feel when Eghosa Imasuen tells his story, and of history in Ken Sa...
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Gad-Purse: Nine Books I Enjoyed Reading in 2013
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Monday, 23 December 2013. Nine Books I Enjoyed Reading in 2013. Reading lists are different. They are shared with a fervent wish to be liked. And that your listener finds the same meaning in the books you choose to love. This list of nine isn’t any different. The Devil that Danced on the Water. The Memory of Love. I read three of Forna’s. 2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens. 4 David Foster Wallace. Both Flesh and Not.
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Gad-Purse: November 2012
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Friday, 30 November 2012. Them for mocking him, and I still consider the Judaic theory of punishment pretty. From a God who created people with advance knowledge of their. Again, there is the idea of hell for people who die without knowledge of a monotheistic redeemer. These conversations could be awkward. The New Testament, which birthed Christianity, suggests that there should be some. To faith. It also urges the believer to study scripture like the. Yes, thi...
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Gad-Purse: August 2013
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Learner, life-reveller, recurring optimist. Tuesday, 6 August 2013. Thoughts on Nasir El-Rufai’s The Accidental Public Servant. You should listen to Lagbaja’s. There are very helpful overviews of the tenacious El-Rufai’s work as Minister in Abuja as his implausible ability to quote lengthy conversations verbatim. There are references to a friendship with President Goodluck Jonathan, and derisions of the same man that contradict what he said elsewhere. To his family and friends. You should run a search on...
