Tag: Celebrations

Inspiration

66 Years Later: Still Standing, Still Hopeful

Jilomes

“I have a dream…that one day, the generality of Nigerians would be proud to stay home and say that truly the land is green”

Martin, Not Luther the King, 1960

Somewhere within the territory of Nigeria on 1 October 1960, a young lady brimmed with hope as the Union Jack was lowered and Taiwo Akinkunmi’s green and white design leaped upwards. Sixty years later, blessed with the longevity that few of her peers were fortunate to enjoy, she looks at the silvery bouquet staring at her in the mirror and wonders how her Nigeria could have failed her so terribly. As she reminisces about the decades gone by, she contrasts the naivety of her youth with the wisdom of lived time and concludes that out of the broken pieces of the past, her Nigeria can still build an edifice of hope.

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Randoms

Three Weddings and a Town

Jilomes

What do you do when three friends send you invitations to attend their wedding ceremonies holding on the same day? Decide on one to attend, right? What if the three ceremonies are holding in the same town? Would you still play favourites? What if one person was a leader at your undergraduate fellowship (marrying another former fellowship executive), one was your undergraduate classmate (marrying a “classmate” from civil engineering), and the other was a work colleague that served at the same organisation during your national service year? You now see my conundrum when three friends invited me to Ile-Ife, home of my undergraduate alma mater.  Continue reading “Three Weddings and a Town” →

Inspiration, Randoms

Thankful, Now and Always

Jilomes

International Women’s Day, Mothering Sunday, Mothers’ Sunday, Mothers’ Day…different names, some with different dates, yet having the same central theme. There may be a myriad of days devoted in different countries around the world to celebrate women, especially mothers, but no matter how many days we set aside, they would never be enough to say thanks. Continue reading “Thankful, Now and Always” →

Randoms

Male Heroines and Fathers’ Day

Jilomes

There are enough events celebrated each year to get someone’s head spinning, with everyday looking like it’s been adopted by one global event or the other. If it’s not “Malaria Day”, it would be “Asthma Day”, or “Environment Day”, or even one’s birthday. Many persons being conformists, simply fall in line, and commit discussions on a given day to that day’s official patron. Non-conformists don’t care about what day it is, while anti-conformists are not content with simply not following “official rules”; they go as far as arguing on better causes to be celebrated on a given day. It is because of these ones that we are talking about male heroines on Fathers’ Day. Continue reading “Male Heroines and Fathers’ Day” →