Cats Care Less

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Cat History on TED-Ed 

and  

Copycat by Vic-O featuring Chase

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#Mexico #Ghana #cockroach #spider

features: 

The Origins of 'La Cucaracha' - that Latino song 

  A r t h r o p o d s  

Why Anansi the spider has eight thin legs - African folktale 

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Naiwu Osahon discusses the creation of spirituality and the first Gods in his article here https://t.co/POubZwoCko #AfricanSpirituality pic.twitter.com/c3Pq8uyJpo

— Pan African Thought (@panafricanuk) September 28, 2016

More: www.thenigerianvoice.com/author/NaiwuOsahon

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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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Two proposals for deepening democracy (POLITICAL POSITIONS FOR EVERYBODY!!!)

Why not? I mean, the population is "qualified."  AND 

 The people are "unemployed" anyway.  

Democracy is for the people - not only that, it is BY the people.  WELL, 

The people are many.  Let the leadership include "everybody". 

 Women YES. Men YES. Youths YES. Elders YES YES. 

** Come as you are, whether you're a beautician or technician, a technocrat or an extrovert.  Every year, you have a 1% chance of being chosen to serve your society as a politician for the year.  

Full Wikipedia entry HERE

The two proposals are 1. Pick randomly.  2.  More winners. 

I remember how in school, we had among us class captains, dorm captains, many captains for this and that, many prefects, totalling more than 200 for a group of 2000 students.  About 50 prefects alone.  Society should aim for similar numbers, not just 200 to represent and govern millions - we'll need millions of governors, captains, and leaders.  

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Patriotic Nigerian

Boomer? Millennial? Gen Z? Gen X?
Which generation do you really belong to? https://t.co/SaO2tvEr1c

— Zikoko (@zikokomag) July 17, 2020

This is your chance to finally discover which past Nigerian president you are. Don't say we've never done anything for you.https://t.co/AUQWnL72MV

— Zikoko (@zikokomag) July 24, 2020

DID YOU ENJOY THE QUIZZES? 

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Après la guerre

"Monday, January 12th 1970, Footage of scenes in Lagos as Philip Efiong, successor to Odumegwu Ojukwu, announces the surrender of the Biafran armed forces.

The capitulation of the Biafra, which as the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, seceded from the federation on May 30th 1967, came after numerous setbacks on the battlefield; the last of which was the overrunning of the provisional capital of Owerri.

Residents in the then Nigerian capital city of Lagos poured into the streets and huddled around transistor radios to hear Efiong's dramatic broadcast."



"August 1970. ITN News footage of the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War looking at the challenges faced by the Igbo people who formed the predominant group in the defeated secessionist state of Biafra.
 [Includes] interviews with Cyprian Ekwensi, the renowned novelist, who had become a plastic bottle salesman and S.G. Ikoku, the son of Alvan Ikoku who served as a Commissioner for Economic Development and of Health in the East-Central State of Nigeria. Source of footage: Getty Images via ITN News."


MUSIC: "Cock Crow At Dawn" by Bongos Ikwue, remade for the movie Inalé.


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A great painting technique for simulating Ancient Egyptian art.

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Shoreline colors !!

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📸 @sarajabril Don’t tell my parents: this photo was also taken from the back of a Boda Boda.

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I’m so excited to show you the video I created with HBB for Raffles City ChongQing✨

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I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.- Sadhguru . . . #sadhguru #yoga #involving

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ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ #tbt

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Do you remember the time...? #Independence 1960

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ah ji ji ji ji - pesin dey shake

On 1st January, 2019, I had an encounter with the ghost of Lord Lugard when I visited his abandoned & apparently, haunted residence at the coastal village of Ikpa Ibekwe, located in Ikot Abasi LGA of Akwa Ibom State. I have chilling footages that prove I’m not being paranoid.

— Harold (@haroldwrites) January 5, 2019

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Movie moments

From the original Roots:

 Scene: Kunta Kinta is renamed Toby by force.
 * Extended scene HERE *

See the 2016 update (warning: don't watch if you don't want to see shredded flesh)

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5,000 years of Indian history

History of India from the Indus Valley civilization to modern times.

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5,000 years of Chinese history

All China's dynasties explained in 7 minutes

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Black History (USA)

Today we honor the birthday of Dr. W.E.B DuBois, educator, civil rights pioneer and first black to earn a PHD from Havard.

"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men." -Dr W.E.B DuBois

Rest in Power. pic.twitter.com/VrgEZuiIHu

— AFRICAN HISTORY (@africanarchives) February 23, 2018

ABOUT W.E.B. Du Bois


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Indigenous languages

geniigames.com 

Download Yoruba 101 and more

Discover true literacy when you rediscover your heritage

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What is #Felabration ?

In honour of Felabration, We’d like to announce our October Cover 🇳🇬🇳🇬@femikutimusic @RealSeunKuti #felabration2017 pic.twitter.com/94FY1JzYZM

— Genevieve Magazine (@GenevieveMag) October 11, 2017

#CuratedProjects | Lemi Ghariowku (@lemighariokwu) is internationally renowned as the mastermind behind 26 record jacket artworks for Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti (@felakutiofficial). . Marking two decades since the passing of Fela, this retrospective looks at the unique interplay of aesthetics and the Nigerian socio-political climate of the 1970s in Ghariokwu’s art featuring a selection of the notorious albums, in tandem with rarely and never-before-exhibited archival documents, sketches and photographs from the artist’s private collection. . ART X Lagos takes place from the 3rd-5th November, 2017, at The Civic Centre in Victoria Island. Register to attend at artxlagos.com/tickets . #ARTXLagos

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This is 
FELA

ANIKULAPO

KUTI

What's your favourite Fela song, groove, or saying? 
Really really. 

--> in the comments. 

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Is it not better to learn?

Chinua Achebe repeatedly reminded us that a man who cannot tell where the rain began to beat him, cannot know where he dried his body.

— Prof Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) May 25, 2017

Whatever that means.  

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?

I understand this one.

May God lead us in the right path.  Amen. 
But we have to study our history. 
  
  

 

I recommend this picture book by Abraham Oshoko (Farafina books, publisher) - June 12 1993: The Annulment


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Ancient & Modern

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Who is this Sheikh Inyass?

One of the most famous persons in Nigeria.
Tell me you haven't seen the portraits?

But what is his claim to fame?
And is he dead or alive?  

It's not good to follow blindly every time
It's better to search the history sometimes

Google: Sheikh Ibrahim Inyass 

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