events x music : the NewsBuka story ... How NewsBuka started TEN YEARS AGO 💥💤😁🌱👽 How tall oaks from little acorns grow

As part of the 10th anniversary celebration, I've written a brief history: Part One, Part Two, and now we have Part Three of Three! 

MUSICAL INTERLUDE <== Yeah, love music on this blog!  

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Annnyway, here we go: 

Nigerian Youth, irrepressible in the face of economic recession, kept creating and connecting till we started hosting end-of-year musical showcases that just grew and grew in popularity.  

Long Live Detty December.  

 

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What else happened at the blog formerly known as Nigeria News Buka?  

Of course, 

 Black Lives Matter.  Palmwine and  More Great Playlists.  

Dance, Dance, Dance.  

I noticed that facebook blocked this blog, maybe because it had been posted too many times for free :-)  It's still blocked.   How could I forget this seismic, global, and ongoing event: CORONAVIRUS.  

Then Nigeria had protests as well.  It's best to not delve into that.  I changed the blog name, and the tag line too.  It used to be "I love my country, I no go lie" - great song - and now it is "serving everybody."  You know what a buka is, right?  A local restaurant, hence "serving" 😁 

All day today, I have looked at hundreds of past posts to create this post and now I feel tired.  Suddenly I'm overwhelmed with the Old Testament Proverbs' conclusion that  All is vanity.  

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Of course there'll be more posts.  

( Let me drink more water. ) 

I look forward to it all.  

( I need to rest. ) 

Let me be more upbeat to close: 

Beauty happens here, excellence happens here, good things are curated here and offered with great cheer - love it, will be back!  

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NewsBuka's origins, continued ... How NewsBuka started TEN YEARS AGO 💥💤😁🌱👽 How tall oaks from little acorns grow

Part Two of Three.  

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In 2012 and for a few years after, I wrote roughly one to two posts per month.  

Usually it was just a summary piece with links to a "popping" or popular matter in the country.  

Sometimes it was something outside of current affairs, but usually it stayed within the themes of policy or politics, or history or civics.  

There was also the occasional feature on tourism, geography, family life, literature, or the media.  

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Other favourites: Africa and the AU, commemorating Nigeria's independence on October 1st, big news from other African countries, Youth, Women, sports, World Cup football, Christmas, elections, and other events.  

I started adding a smattering of music on occasion in 2013.   

2014 brought scary  news - remember ebola?  I thought we were going to die.  

In case all of this bores you, please bear with me:  

In 2015 I tried even snappier posts (two pictures, the headline asks you to pick one ) and music posts, with nice music videos.  I called this the great pivot and as you know NewsBuka would evolve (today) to feature music posts about half the time.    

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2016 is notable for the great acceleration then.  

Attention spans in the world were going down, fast, and so the less any item demanded of a visitor the better.   It took a while, but I finally learned that I could loosen up and just share tiny posts containing no true editorial, no new writing, but just other so-called "content" - 

music or snippets of almost anything, like great photos, the pick-one format from before, tweets, or instagram or even facebook items.  

Also (now I remember) I stopped working at my 2012-2016 job that February.  

For these two reasons I started posting far more than before, up to about 10 posts per month.    

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How NewsBuka started TEN YEARS AGO 💥💤😁🌱👽 How tall oaks from little acorns grow

From five posts in 2011 - See them HERE - to more 🎧🎵than💥💤five😁🌱👽hundred. 

August 1, 2011: Goodluck Jonathan was President.  I had been a casual but enthusiastic user of blogspot for a few years.  I was newly out of a (related to blogging) real job as an online journalism / digital media bosslady.  I started Nigeria News Buka, a latest blog idea.  It would be like my arty blog REALbubbler that started months earlier, but with more politics than fashion for instance.  My innovation in both blogs was to rearrange the layout so that the blogroll - usually an optional item in the sidebar - became the star feature. 

Come back for more of this exciting history!!!   

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Who is beautiful? Can a man be beautiful? Is beauty a destination or maybe a choice?

#Rant, lol





#truth lol

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Oya now now, like, follow, REALbubbler on facebook, twitter, ...

Love #Love https://t.co/1A3PlaaZjH

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) July 24, 2017

A president with a poet’s eye https://t.co/yu4Egz5mJc

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) December 2, 2018

Please, don't spread fake news. https://t.co/uPFC1ckUX6 pic.twitter.com/3WsrLo5nsh

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) November 20, 2018

Buhari’s body double suspicion that won’t go away https://t.co/7CpvJTSGJz

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) November 28, 2018

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we real cool / bell hooks book

Preface about black men: don’t believe the hype vii
Chapter 1 plantation patriarchy 1
Chapter 2 gangsta culture: a piece of the action 15
Chapter 3 schooling black males 32
Chapter 4 don’t make me hurt you: black male violence 44
Chapter 5 it’s a dick thing: beyond sexual acting out 63
Chapter 6 from, angry boys to angry men 80
Chapter 7 waiting for daddy to come home: black male parenting 95
Chapter 8 doing the work of love 109
Chapter 9 healing the hurt 126
Chapter 10 the coolness of being real 138

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~ this book is 15 years old.  

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Parody of a President

Who did this to me? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/kSln2pA4oV

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) August 6, 2016

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Doing nothing https://t.co/DMdxIAAiKN

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) July 31, 2016

Northern Nigeria https://t.co/rvIk0swDU7

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) July 31, 2016

When I read that $1 is now N400 pic.twitter.com/jRBb7AwK0l

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) August 5, 2016

Take one dollar to N500. https://t.co/P14fcuAZfp

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) July 31, 2016

Thanks to all the those Nigerians that donated to our change campaign.
You are the reason you are suffering today pic.twitter.com/106Ede9ozV

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) August 5, 2016

GEJ - how did you spoil so much in just 1 year? Nawao
Me - Jona, if you want to help me, help me. Don't insult me. pic.twitter.com/wnpUs3gbUt

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) August 3, 2016

Commissioning GEJ's projects https://t.co/Xs2rHbVQUH

— Parosident Buhari (@TheMbuhari) July 31, 2016

Did we ALREADY forget about the Panama Papers?

Enjoy this April 2016 episode of The Daily Show on corruption among political leaders worldwide.

Journalism needs a longer memory, don't you think?  Or should that be left to the judiciary? 

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This is Tec

Follow @ShowDemCamp on twitter / instagram

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The Future of Africa is beautiful

 Created by the publishers of Y!, The Future Awards reflect our most positive youthful selves. 

A 2010 Y! Magazine Cover

See the 2014 awardees. 

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Admit it. You're in the intelligentsia.

in·tel·li·gent·si·a  (ĭn-tĕl′ə-jĕnt′sē-ə, -gĕnt′-) n. The intellectual elite of a society. (The Free Dictionary)

in·tel·li·gent·sia noun \in-ˌte-lə-ˈjen(t)-sē-ə, -ˈgen(t)-\ : a group of intelligent and well-educated people who guide or try to guide the political, artistic, or social development of their society (Merriam-Webster)

The intelligentsia, from Latin: intellegentia (Polish: inteligencja, Russian: интеллигенция,[1] pronounced [ɪntʲɪlʲɪˈɡʲentsɨjə]) is a social class of people engaged in complex mental labour aimed at disseminating culture.
This therefore might include everyone from artists to school teachers.  (See Wikipedia for more)

To what extent do you think this term applies to a mostly-young intellectual and creative class in Nigeria?

If #SMWLagos or #SocialMediaWeek is your thing, you're probably intelligentsia. 

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#KnowYourRightsNigeria is on going courtesy @KYCInitiative.The guest, Lawyer @princeoreshade is not sparing anyone.Join them CC: @eggheader
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