Great migration to Lagos.part two

The great migration to Lagos was somehow the most unique event ever to happen to our family after the crash of the family silver.I never knew that much about my father's anecdote and what he bequeathed to humanity tis we migrated to Lagos and I Ve spoken about this unprecedented feat elsewhere in my writings which when objected to by my sister's retort who cited the fact of tandi gurana and another what my father called Esdie that were before the father's feat but I rejected her claim .Did I not manage with unrestrained confidence to declare to her on phone he was the first black person in Africa to manufacture soft drink second worldwide after Arthur Gaston in America in 1938 and also the first to adopt the use of non-carbonated plastic bottle for soft drink production ? I do not also fail to discover he was the first black man to work at the world health organization WHO office in Congo Brazzaville where my sister was born and family grew up prior to return home in 1978 finally when ajibade laniyan the last born popularly known to me as white power 001 was delivered.We had a phenomenal upbringing and we virtually lived the English life .What do I mean by that?At a time when few organized department stores and merchant outlets exist in Nigeria like the leventis stores and Bata shoes owned by Baba adedeji my father was fond of traveling overseas to relax and purchase the best bits and nines for his own children.Name it the tuxedos,boma jeans, expensive suits and jackets etcetera.I was called boma boy by father given the tag with boma jeans now popular okrika now in the country or like bent boutique materials.I took up that name as my stage name and also included what my late uncle used to call me that is black power.I Ve had it in mind to adopt the two stage names for keep once releasing my first ten albums.People might think I had copied burna boy and certainly not true though I came up in music late due to first love for writing unlike Soyinka that was agog with both at the same time until he dropped the last album in 1988 "I love my country" and now focused more in writing and literature.Even before that he had dropped music for literature right from time unlike fela his radical cousin but I was different and I did pick up literature quite earlier buried myself in trial and errors tis the great migration.I was self employed with the writings even when there were no income streams whatsoever a testification to sometimes illogical power of passion and it sounds only logical only when you get results.My best source of inspiration since I had no privilege of university experience otherwise known as illiteracy and they pelt you with that stigma whereas many of the graduates if not 80percent are educated illiterates passing through school and school barely passed through them.Hence when I came with the family my brother and I and my parent later others already in Lagos Joined us and visited regularly,I took up interest in newspaper business to continue my readership and the best way was to be a vendor to be able to read find so much time bto read at the same time vending and gathered so much interest in reading to improve my English and did serve me well eagerly and turned out to be a street lecturers . Like one writer had said if you read newspapers for seven years you would be a professor.Infact let me say six months you would be better than a Don at the university especially with the advantage of the internet how much more a seven years would have been tutor to emeritus professors.Hence I was on top of arguments and street debates at the newsstands,betting centres and brt busstops from igando to ikotun and I ended up writing for media houses a couple of them defunct ones like Nigeriantoday and national mirror liquidated when it was bought by jimoh Ibrahim.I uncovered the way from rag to riches that required extensive planning to get to your prime destination It may sound ludicrous had I gone to university would not have been blessed to make such discoveries.Nigerian graduate old or young lack entrepreneurial skills and therefore poor managerial expertise and I had the first hand information about them.I debates with at least thirty Nigerian graduates based on my personal experiment at the new stands and brt bus stop and betting centres for more than two decades and I discovered only three were above average in the course of hours of discussion.My erstwhile landlady was zero and the female claimed to have master in economics planned to do PhD and when you interrogate her she was completely naught.I was in her room one day and we discussed monetary policy and hardly heard before and I was like we re doomed in this country.Can you imagine that? Yet she claimed and desired to be a member of association of professional economists in the country.She could barely define economics and according the advice of economists generally not being taken and I was like thinking this submission was behind her lethargic and disgusting attitude to the field of economics.Seemingly to indicate her late forced her into the study and she could do is to sing every song of the old school a phenomenal gift on his own and made useless with the fact she hardly composed one of her own,a dead brain button.Out of the thirty economists,philosophers I Ve interviewed and interrogated those three included ehirim studied econometrics purely mathematics like financial mathematics and another guy who studied and another Yoruba studied econometrics from the University of Ibadan.Only three or at most four economists were deemed satisfactory in my personal experience.I have an actor a short man probably the frame might have encouraged his seriousness to get rounded education for the sake of self esteem and human dignity did economics and finance had a PhD too and was satisfactory to my likings.I think it is not the standard of education that was fallen to be candid but it is apathy of the student population that was fallen.The presence of the internet is a plus for this generation to be able to advance beyond previous generation but they fail to use the biggest privilege of all time sanctioned by disgusting lethargy of the arts.

The love for writing came up easily in those days when we grew up reading newspapers and it was newspapers that woke you up sometimes even before meals and the father's factory was running top notch and our soft drink brands especially the leading brand fruito was every where in Nigeria and beyond in west africa.i think after school the only thing was to read papers and dictionary and I think It became abiding custom and ao writing spring up easily in your hormone.It was very interesting in those days been one of the best article writers in my school unarguably the best secondary school in the city.I think like wole Soyinka had said you must set forth dawn,I started too early gaining mastery of the English language no matter how small to a relative extent that you could exploit to pass across your message and communicate to the public or larger world.